Hiding results can be very useful if you want to avoid getting biased results. Especially for sensitive matters, or when you do not want your audience to get influenced by the answers submitted faster.
How to hide or show results
You can hide the results in two ways – in the Edit view where you edit your presentation, or directly in the Presentation view during your presentation.
Hide or show results from the Edit view
If you want to set the default options for hiding the results of your presentation, you can do this in advance when you edit your presentation:
Select an interactive slide that you added to your presentation
Select the response area of the slide to open the Edit tab.
On the Edit panel on the right, select the option that you prefer.
You have 3 options to choose from:
"Show live" allows responses to display in the slide immediately
"Click to show" will hide responses until you manually reveal them by using the forward arrow key or click on the Show responses button:
3. "Never show" will keep responses hidden in the presentation until you manually change the settings or you manually reveal them by following the instructions in the next section (you can still view responses in the Results page with this setting selected)
Note: if you select "Never show" but click on the Show responses button, the setting will automatically change to "Click to show".
Hide results from the Presentation view
Here's how you can hide the results during your presentation:
Open the Presentation Menu by hovering over the bottom of the screen.
Click on "Hide responses"
When results are hidden, you can see how many people have joined the Menti and responded to the specific question.
The join count includes anyone who joined the Menti via the QR code, the join code or the direct link. The join count is reset after 2 hours.
How to show results
To show the results again, go back into the Presentation menu and click on "Show responses".
You can also use the shortcut “H” on your keyboard to toggle between hiding and showing the results.
Do you have an image on the slide that covers the result?
If you have added an image to the slide, this can hide the results. If so you have 2 ways of hiding the image to show the results:
Press the "S" hotkey on your keyboard
Click on the “Hide image" button below the image
Pro tip: we have a feature called “Advanced Layouts” that will allow you to change the position of your image and place it next to your results instead.