Quick-Poll-Function
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Raffael Liegmann
Mentimeter should get a function for slide-independent, spontaneous polls without preparation. When you want to do a spontaneous poll in your lecture without prearranged slides, it should be possible to show a single poll-slide with thumb-up, thumb-neutral and thumb-down. And when you close the poll, the results are shown. After that you can return to your regular slides.
And to make it perfect, there should also be a second view, that doesn't show the thumbs, but A, B and C when you want to ask for options, that are not be answered with pro, neutral, contra. So that you tell the voters A is for trip to Zoo, B for trip to themepark and so on. This second quick-poll-type should also allow to choose the number of options up to 10 (A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J). And it should also have an setting, if the users can choose only one option or multiple of the given options.
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Julius Hansen
I often decide spontaneously to ask a question or let my students suggest what to do next and then vote. It would be great, if Mentimeter could support such spontaneous questions.
Carsten Welzberg
I would go even further: There should also be the option for spontaneous word-clouds and open-end questions. When I do this spontaneously I don't need to have a written question. It's enough to tell the question orally and let the users give the answers.
E.g. when you decide to have a spontaneous question what to do next, you can collect open-end-answers and then let the users vote on them. All without any prepared-slide, only with a spontaneous told question.
In my opinion, there should be a quick-poll-button available in a presentation, but also independent from presentations. When you click it, you have to choose, if you want an A, B, C, D-poll, a likert-scale-poll, a wordcloud or an open-ended-question. And of course there should also be an option to choose a default color-theme for quick-polls in the general settings.
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Felix Kupferbach
I totally agree. And there should also be a third option:
When you want to ask, if the pace of a seminar or lecture is good, too slow or to fast, there should be vote with these three options. Because the options mentioned above only allow for answers that are equivalent or that are sorted from good to bad. But there should also be a third option, where the best option is in the middle, and both ends of the scale are the worst options (too slow / too fast).