The Word Cloud, also known as word collage, is one of Mentimeter's most popular question types. Simply ask your audience a question, and their responses will dynamically shape a Word Cloud that grows, expands, and transforms in real-time.
The most common responses will appear larger, making it easy to identify the most popular answers amongst your audience. This Word Cloud slide type will work best for short responses (up to 25 characters). If you need longer answers from your audience, you can use the Open Ended question type instead.
The word cloud can accept up to 400 unique words. If you receive more responses than that, the 400 most popular words will be visible on the screen. Please note, that the Word Cloud does not display capital letters. To keep things simple and avoid unwanted duplicates, all responses will be displayed in lowercase.
To learn how to create a Word Cloud, watch this video or continue reading below:
How to create a Word Cloud
Select the + New Slide button on the top left corner of the editor.
Select the Word Cloud slide type.
Enter in your question by clicking in the header text field of the slide canvas and start typing your question.
That's it! Now it's up to your audience to fill the Word Cloud with their input by joining your presentation.
Change how many responses each participant can submit
On Word Cloud slides, you can change the Number of responses to change how many submissions each participant can submit.
To customize this option:
Click on the body of the slide in the canvas on the left side to bring up the Edit tab.
Click the Number of responses field, and select the number of responses in the dropdown menu.
Removing unwanted entries
Add a profanity filter
If you think inappropriate words may be submitted by your audience, you can activate the profanity filter which will prevent those words from appearing in the Word Cloud.
Manually remove unwanted entries
If your audience submits undesired words that aren’t captured by our profanity filter, or if you’d like to tidy up the Word Cloud before exporting to PDF, you can manually remove unwanted entries. This can be done through the Mentimote or directly from the presentation view.
For a step-by-step guide, please visit our article Remove input from Word Clouds and Open Ended questions.
Need some inspiration?
Check out our Icebreaker Templates for fun Word Cloud ideas