Product Updates - November 2024

📲 - Based on user feedback, we’ve made significant adjustments to the QR code placement during presentations: Users can now move the QR code dynamically during live presentations. Simply hover over it to reveal arrows and adjust its position! Want to learn more about the QR-code in Menti? Look no further

⚡ - We’ve improved the reliability of AI-driven summarization! We’ve started provisioning Lambdas that run continuously, avoiding idle states.Execution times are now faster and smoother, ensuring a better summarization experience. Check out the AI features in Menti here.

🔑 - you can now invite others to your Menti with tailored access levels: Edit (Pro and Enterprise users only), Comment, or View. This feature applies to presentations in "My Presentations" and is available to Pro and Enterprise users. Basic, Free, and Member Lite collaborators can be granted Comment or View access. Read more about collaboration here.

🔌 - allowing for seamless embedding of any Mentimeter slide directly into PowerPoint, with full editing capabilities via a shortcut to the Mentimeter Editor. Say goodbye to switching windows during presentations—everything now works smoothly within PowerPoint. Read more about the new PowerPoint plugin here.

🖥️ — one simple Esc takes you directly to the editor! And for the occasions you want to exit fullscreen, you can use the toolbar or hotkey F just like before. Read more about keyboard shortcuts here.

🎨 - titles now scale smartly, use a lighter font, and have a fixed height to avoid crowding visuals. We've also adjusted text sizes, spacing, and margins around content, giving slides a cleaner, more open feel. Part of our Slides’ New Look initiative, these updates enhance readability and visual balance across all slides. Check it out in your account!

👀 - we've released a new, intuitive view-only editor! This updated view provides a smoother experience for viewing shared Mentis, enabling collaboration through comments and expanding sharing options. Read more about collaboration and how to add comments in Menti.

- When someone leaves a comment, invites you to a presentation, or you got results on a recent Menti you will now be informed through our in-app notification center. You will find it in the top right corner of your Home view and it will be turned on by default for all Mentimeter users. Read more about comments & notifications here.

- Previously, images on quiz slides were only shown on top of the slide during countdown and voting, which has caused problems with options or content sometimes being covered. To improve the experience, we've removed this functionality and are now supporting the regular "image layouts" on quiz slides—just like on all other slides. Read more about quizzes here!

- The Requests page is a centralized hub for admins to manage join requests and Member Lite roles and upgrades. Admins can review and approve all types of requests on the Requests Page with a single click! Read more here.

- We have replacing the current ‘find my workspace’ page used for SSO authentication, with an email-based flow. Instead of a workspace name, users will be asked to enter their email address. Users wanting to join an Enterprise workspace with SSO enabled, but haven’t gotten an ‘invite’ link to sign up, can find their workspace through this page.

- Dive deeper into your presentation results on the fly with our new Insights button! Perfect for generating instant summaries and facilitating audience engagement with voting and grouping options.

- Easily segment responses from multiple choice and open-ended questions to better understand your audience after your presentations. Read more here.

- Experience seamless editing with our interactive canvas. Make real-time adjustments to colors, themes, and settings, seeing your changes instantly - just like other tools you are used to!

- Our Multiple Choice and Scales slides have a new look! Enjoy improved accessibility and a clean design that increases readability of your responses. Try out a scales slide here. Try out a scales slide here.

- Simplify collaboration with our new in-editor comment feature. Co-editors can communicate seamlessly, and email notifications ensure you never miss a response. Read more here.

🖥️ - The AI Menti Builder instantly creates an interactive Menti presentation from a simple prompt. Turn your agendas, ideas, and notes into a first draft of a productive workshop or lecture, making it faster to ask questions, more often. Try it out here.

If you are a part of a workspace, your admin needs to enable AI tools. Read more about how to do that here.

📁 - You can now share entire folders with other people, giving them access to all presentations within, enabling smoother co-creation and collaboration. Read more here.

📊 - A new way of navigating between the editor and your results is live. You can now toggle between results and the editor by easily clicking the different tabs in the top bar. Also, you can now access the presentation screenshots from the new download menu on the results page. See it in the editor.

🟢 - Now showing in text fields in the side-panel for interactive slides, making it easier to see what colors your polls, word clouds and more will have. Try it out in the editor today!

- results and voting now displayed together. Participants who join via their computer will no longer have to view the presentation to see results! Note that you will only see this view when joining a real-time presentation controlled by the presenter. If you are accessing a survey, you will not see the slides, but only the participation section (as it appears when joining via a phone). Learn more about how to participate in a Menti here

- You can now use the Breakdown button to segment open ended questions on the results page. This allows you to unlock even more insights from your responses! You can read more here.

📌 - Pin on image responses have been added to the results page, accessible to all users. Read more about the Pin on Image slide here.

👍 - reactions in your Mentimeter presentations are now simpler and unified which makes managing reactions much easier. Here's what's new:

🛝 - making it easy to get an overview of our slide offerings when creating a new presentation. Head over to Mentimeter and create a new presentation to see it in action!

🖥️ - is now added to your dashboard on the "My Presentation" and "Shared with me" pages. This new grid layout shows presentations with enhanced thumbnails instead of the traditional list format, offering a more visual browsing experience. (PS: if you prefer the classic list view, you can easily switch back using icons in the upper right corner)

✨ - which allows you to create as many presentations as you like. Gather input from up to 50 unique participants each month, with no limits on the number of Question, Quiz, and Content slides. Exceed your limit? The current presentation won't be interrupted. Want more? Simply wait 30 days for a reset, or level up with an upgrade. Read more about our new free offering here.

🎟️ - a free workspace role that doesn’t occupy a license in Basic, Pro or Enterprise workspace. Member lite can collect responses from up to 50 participants monthly and create Mentis with free features. The new Member lite role enables organizations to include team members into their workspace, enhancing the team experience and asset sharing. By default, we allow 20 Member lite roles per workspace. You can read more about it here.

⚙️ - we added a new permission setting that allows Pro and Enterprise workspaces to control who can invite new Member lite users to their workspace (admins only or everyone in the workspace).

🌐 - reactions are now the same across a Menti — instead of per slide. This means that you turn them on and off for a full Menti instead of per slide. Add, remove or change which reactions you want in your Menti from one place! To learn more about reactions, check out this help article.

🗂️ - you can now view a detailed breakdown of the data collected in your presentation in the Responses tab on the results page. We are confident that this will allow you to better understand your responses, and in turn, your participants. We currently support multiple choice, word cloud, open ended, scales, quiz, ranking and pin on image. Read more about results here.

💽 - our new custom data retention policy determines how long presentation data (votes, Q&A) is stored within Mentimeter, before being permanently deleted. With this feature, Enterprise customers can set a data retention policy on their workspace (for example 6 or 12 months). Please note: this feature can only be applied to workspaces with help from the Mentimeter team. If you want to learn more, reach out to hello@mentimeter.com.

- you can now use Vimeo links in the video slide! To use it, just add a Vimeo link the same way as you would add a YouTube link.

- you can now allows participants to vote on groups in open-ended questions. After collecting open-ended responses, simply enable the group voting option. Participants can then view grouped responses and submit their votes. Note: in order for this to work, you must have the AI tools turned on.

- our most popular question type is now added to the Results page, where you can easily see how many time each word was mentioned. (Want to join the Mentimeter Beta Program to help us build a better Mentimeter experience ? Opt in here)

- Workspace admins now have the option to restrict Excel exports. This update, aimed at our Enterprise plan customers, ensures that exports are disallowed if a presentation has fewer than 10 participants. Q&A participants are counted separately, maintaining flexibility in varied presentation formats. Additionally, timestamps have been removed from the Excel export to protect participant privacy. This change is crucial for maintaining participant anonymity, especially in smaller groups.

- Presentations shared with you will soon appear in a dedicated "Shared with Me" area, decluttering "My Presentations". This logical separation aims to reduce confusion, as shared presentations have limited actions (like move, delete). Note: This change applies only to Pro and Enterprise users; basic users continue with view-only access through email links.

- as a part of our commitment to making Mentimeter more intuitive we have decided to retire the Slide Library. These slides haven’t given our users the value we thought, and usage has been low since release. We will instead focus our efforts on making our most popular slides even better. Read more in our blog post here.

- error messages that previously were difficult to understand and decode, are now updated to human-readable copy, with an error code and a unique Request ID (which can help us troubleshoot the issues quicker internally).