With the Open Ended question type, participants can type in free-text answers . This question type is good to use when you don't want to use pre-determined answers and want voters to write longer answers – up to 200 characters at a time.

Since participants can input anything, you can use this question to collect emails or other information to identify voters. It is also great for letting the audience send in their own questions to the speaker. Read about voting on Open Ended questions here.

Pro tip: Let participants have a bit more time to enter their statements.

This is how you can create an Open Ended question with Mentimeter:

You can change the layout under the "Design" tab. The result layout options are:

The Speech bubbles layout will display multiple responses on the slide. If you get more responses than fit the slide, you can scroll down the slide in the Presentation view to see more responses.

The Flowing grid layout works just like the Speech bubbles layout, but the slide will automatically scroll down as you get more responses.

You can see a preview of the layouts when you create your question – just hover over the different options to see how they will look. You can also change the layout of the responses while presenting by opening the Presentation menu (hover over the bottom left corner of the screen) and selecting the "Show layout" button from the left-side toolbar:

To avoid inappropriate words, you can use the profanity filter to remove them from your audience's input.

Let participants add multiple responses

Each Open ended response allows for max 200 characters, but if your participants want to add more input they can submit several responses. The option to submit several responses is turned on by default. If you want to turn this option off, you can select the “Content” tab and toggle “Enable multiple submissions”.

This is how it looks when you get a vote on an Open Ended question:

In case your audience enters undesired words that haven't been captured by our profanity filter, or you simply want to remove addressed input or tidy up the results before exporting to PDF, you can remove input from Word Clouds and Open Ended questions. This can be done either in the Mentimote or directly on your presentation screen. Find out how to do it here.