Who is this guide for?
This guide is for instructors who want to add an existing Menti presentation to their Moodle course.
Note: In order to add Mentis to Moodle, you need to first install the integration. Please refer to this article for instructions on how to set this up.
Step 1: Finding and opening the Mentimeter tool
The Mentimeter LTI tool is now visible in the Activity/resource modal
Navigate to your Course.
Click the + icon to add an activity/resource, and go to "All". You will there see the Mentimeter logo, and be able to Star it to simplify future use.
Step 2: Adding and publishing a Menti
Once you've found the tool, and added it, you will now be able to able to add your Mentimeter content.
Click Select Content to add your Menti.
Note, You can access all Mentis that you have access to in Mentimeter.
To sync grades, you need to go to "Grade" and click the checkbox to "Allow Mentimeter to add grades in the gradebook".
Note, this is how the integration is setup by default, but you MAY have made it "always" or "never" when managing the LTI integration - this will impact how this checkbox is displayed.
Set points as per usual. We will sync grades based on the maximum points assigned. See below in step 3 for more info.
Step 3: Present your Menti from Moodle
Open the Menti from the course view. This will take to you the Mentimeter editor - now in your LMS. From here you can:
Edit content or settings
Preview
Invite collaborators
And Present
Click Present to start presenting the Menti to your audience. They will join the Menti by finding the assignment in their LMS view, and opening it. Read more about the Participant or Student experience here.
Should you wish to test the student experience, use the "Switch role to..." function in the top right corner of the Moodle interface.
Step 4: Sync grades to the LMS Gradebook
Once your class, session or survey has ended, you can sync results from Mentimeter to your LMS gradebook.
Note: For Grade syncing to be possible, you must have completed the following:
Enabled "Show Participant Names" under the "Permissions" tab in your workspace settings (This requires admin permissions in Mentimeter)
In the Interactivity tab in your Menti, "Login required" and "Participant names" are turned on - meaning we are both verifying student identities and saving their identity with their responses.
"Allow Mentimeter to add grades in the gradebook" is enabled in Moodle.
First, go to the Menti you used, and go to the "results" tab.
On the right hand side, you will see "Sync to LMS"
Click this option and leave the tab open until you see that the sync is completed. Once completed, go to your LMS gradebook, and you will see a new entry for the session.
If you and students have notifications enabled for grades, notifications will be sent automatically once these grades have been synced.
Note: You can edit grades, or add weightings, as per usual in your LMS gradebook. However, should you re-sync the results from Mentimeter, those changes will be overridden.
(Optional) Step 5: Share results with your students
While this isn't part of the LMS integration itself, it is common for instructors to use Mentis as reading materials for students to refer to at a later time.
To share a read only version of the slides, you can use our embed slides functionality to simply embed the completed slides on a page for students to use as reading materials. To do so, following the instructions in this support article.
For students to see the embedded slides, you will need to ensure the Menti isn't "Private". Graded Mentis are by default "Private", you can change this to "Public" by clicking Share and scrolling to the bottom of the modal.
