Mentimeter: Perfect Your Online Teaching Presence

Explore four design steps to boost online teaching presence: gain attention, define objectives, present content, and active learning through aligned activities, guided by constructive alignment in synchronous online sessions.

Plan engaging online activities with Mentimeter using constructive alignment principles, tailored to audience size and nature, with breakout groups, polls, whiteboards, and hand-raising to foster active learning.

Apply presentation design principles to boost mentee engagement: use consistent color schemes and fonts, slide masters, simplicity, and visual storytelling with diagrams and charts.

Develop a ready-to-use Mentimeter presentation template with master slides and interaction slides, enabling polls, quizzes, and self-assessment activities to optimize online teaching presence.

Apply introductory slide templates in Mentimeter to perfect your teaching presence, guiding setup for Zoom, Teams, and Google Meet while applying instructional design principles—gain attention, outline objectives, present material.

Import your presentation into mentimeter, then rename, reorder, or hide slides. Use parent and child presentations to build and copy mentee interactions into the main deck.

Copy Mentimeter interactions from the child to the parent presentation using side-by-side windows, choosing where to place each interaction and managing edits between parent and child.

Learn to use video conferencing and virtual classroom tools for online teaching, including meeting space, screen sharing, and chat, with setups for Zoom, Teams, and Meet.

Set up a reliable Zoom screen share by presenting in windowed mode, sharing only your browser, and monitoring chat and participants, then provide audience participation via menti.com link or code.

Learn to set up a reliable Microsoft Teams screen-share workflow for Mentimeter presentations, sharing the presentation browser window, enabling audience chat, and providing audience participation links.

Set up google meet with a browser window shared to two-thirds of the screen, monitor audience via chat, and display the audience participation screen using menti links or codes.

Mentimote covers using notes and privacy features to deliver new material with reassurance, preview the next slide, and prepare an audience-ready session with an extra screen (computer monitor or phone).

Arrive early and pre-check your tech, welcome participants with a holding slide, and set clear guidelines for audio, video, chat, and hand-raise to establish your online teaching presence.

Prepare your audience for Mentimeter by mastering screen setup and presenter view across Zoom and Teams, ensuring the audience sees the right slides and interactions.

Design your presentation mindset and plan with PowerPoint templates to create a visual storyboard of content and activities. Manage the video conferencing environment confidently to elevate your online presence.