Multiple Choice are one of our most commonly used slide types. Multiple Choice is suitable when you already know what options you want the participants to vote on, i.e. you want your audience to choose only from a few pre-defined options.

This is how you create a Multiple Choice question with Mentimeter:

That’s it for the basic steps! Now, let's look at some optional functionalities you can add.

By default, the results of your Multiple Choice question will be displayed as a bar chart. You can also choose to show your results as a Pie Chart, Donut Chart, and Dots under the "Design" tab.

If you want to add images to your Multiple Choice options, simply click the image icon next to the options. You can upload your own images or select images from the Unsplash and Giphy libraries.

Note: it is only possible to upload images in square format (1:1 ratio) to the Multiple Choice options.

If your Multiple Choice options have a right and wrong answer, you can toggle “Show correct answer(s)" under the Options section:

A checkbox will now be added to each option that you can check to mark the correct option(s).

When presenting, you can show which options you have marked as correct by pressing “Enter” on your keyboard.

Note: The Multiple Choice question type will not collect scores. If you want to create a Quiz where scores are kept for each player and leaderboards are created, take a look at our Quiz competition question type instead.

If you want the audience to be able to vote on multiple options (commonly known as checkboxes in surveys), toggle “Enable multiple selection”.

You can then decide the maximum number of options your participants can select.

By default, the results will be displayed in absolute numbers. If you want to display the results in percentage, toggle “Show results in percentage” under the 'Design' tab.

You can also switch between showing percentages and numbers while presenting by clicking on the "Show percent" button in the presentation menu:

The font size of the options will automatically change depending on the length of your text, or the number of answer options.

To make your font size larger, you can reduce the number of answer options or reduce the length of text in the answer options.

If you have several Multiple Choice questions in your presentation, you can segment the votes according to the results from another question.

This is what the presentation looks like when you receive votes on your Multiple Choice question:

More info: voting on Multiple Choice questions.