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See historical data with sessions and trends
See historical data with sessions and trends

Ask the same questions several times and compare results over time

Emma Cullen avatar
Written by Emma Cullen
Updated this week

With Mentimeter it is possible to re-use a presentation, by creating a new historical session, as many times as you need as a Presenter. This can be used for instances where you would like to present again, gathering time-specific results for the same audience, or presenting to a new audience. To learn how to create a new historical session, for the same presentation, check out this help article on how to reset your results.

By resetting your results, this makes it possible to collect and compare answers from each time the questions are asked, in order to identify trends. If you work in a business setting, the use of trends, for example, can be especially useful when administering a pulse check for employees, to gauge how the results change over time. Be creative and feel free to adapt this handy feature to your own needs!

See historical data and trends

Once you have collected your answers from different sessions, you can access and compare the historical data.

How to see your historical data

  1. Press “Present” in the top right corner of your Edit View

  2. Open the Presentation menu by hovering over the bottom left of the screen

  3. Click “Show History” in the left-side toolbar:

4. Choose any of the previous sessions

Please Note: This Show History button will only be accessible on the Interactive Slides (slides that can receive responses) and not the Content slides.

How to show trends

If you have more than two sessions it is possible to show a visual representation of how the results change over time.

  1. Press “Present” in the top right corner of your Edit View

  2. Open the Presentation menu by hovering over the bottom left of the screen

  3. Click “Show trends”

You will then see a graph showing how results have changed through the different sessions:

Kindly note, the trends feature is currently only available for Scales slides and Multiple Choice slides.

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