Do you want to collect input from your audience before your presentation or over a longer period of time? You can use Mentimeter as an asynchronous survey tool and allow your voters to answer your questions at their own pace by setting your presentation to Survey mode.
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Presentation or Survey
Mentimeter offers two different ways for your audience to move through a presentation:
Presentation mode allows the presenter to control what slide will be shown to the audience on their voting devices.
Survey mode lets voters move through the slides in the presentation on their own.
You can learn more about how the presentation mode affects your presentation here.
You can set a presentation to Survey mode in the Settings menu, as shown below:
Once you set a presentation to Survey mode, voting will stay open for as long as you need. When you wish to stop collecting results, you can simply close voting by toggling 'Enable participation' under the Participants tab in the Share settings:
Note: Survey mode cannot be used if your presentation includes Quiz Competition type slides (Select Answer & Type Answer). For the Quiz Competition slide types, the audience needs to answer the questions live, so the presentation has to be controlled live by the presenter in Presentation mode. Other question types can all be set to Survey mode. Learn more about the difference between Quiz slides and Question slides here.
Pro tip: if you want to collect input on your survey over a longer period of time, we recommend sending participants the voting link, rather than the 8-digit voting code, since the voting code is temporary and will be renewed every few days. You can learn more about the voting code validity here.
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