AI features in Mentimeter

What is AI Menti Creator

It’s a chat-based assistant that helps users build Mentimeter presentations quickly. It generates structured slides, questions, and activities based on a short prompt, making it easier to create interactive sessions.

How to initiate the use of AI Menti Creator

1. Start a chat
   
   
   • First, go to Mentimeter (https://www.mentimeter.com/). Click “Start with AI” button.
     
     
   • Find “Start with AI” and select from the option available or click on “something else”.
     
     
     
     
2. Choose the type of Menti you want to create.
   e.g. a live quiz, questions for your audience in a live quiz, questions for your audience, or sharable survey.
   
   
   • If you’re not sure, select “I’m not sure” and the assistant will help you decide.
     
     
     
     
   • As an example, if I am a lecturer in Dentistry, and I want to create a pre-knowledge check activity for my new students during the class to activate the discussion and participation, I can send a brief prompt to the AI chat. 
     
     
     
     
   • Once you have confirmed your responses, the system will begin creating the slides.  
     This may take a few minutes, depending on the complexity of your request.
     
     
     
     
3. Review and improve the draft
   
   
   • After you enter your initial prompt, the AI assistant may ask follow-up questions to better understand your request. For example, it may ask you to:
      
     • Narrow down the topic
     • Clarify the student level
     • Specify the tone (e.g. formal, interactive, competitive)
     • Indicate the number or type of questions
       
       
   • Continue responding in the chat to refine your presentation. 
     As you provide more details, suggested slides will appear on the right-hand side of the screen.
     
     

Modifying content via chat

The first draft may not be final and offers you a starting point.  
The assistant will prompt you with ideas or suggestions to make adjustments if required.

• • You can continue prompting and chatting to:
    
    
    • Add more questions
    • Remove slides
    • Adjust wording
    • Change the tone and audience
    • Personalise the content further

At this stage, you cannot edit the slide preview directly and all changes must be requested through the chat interface. You will be able to edit slides directly in the next step.

Change the theme

On occasion you may wish to alter the appearance of your presentation to fit a particular colour palette or to enliven your content for your audience.

1. Click "Change theme" to modify the visual design aesthetic of your presentation
   
   
   • Under the Mentimeter tab, you can select from the standard themes provided by Mentimeter.
   • Under the Workplace tab, you may find shared QMUL themes created by colleagues.
     

   

Finalising your theme session

Once you are satisfied with the look and feel of your content and design of your presentation:

1. Click “Continue” in the top right corner to move to the editing stage.
2. You will be taken to the Mentimeter editor where you can:
   
   • Edit text directly
   • Add or remove slides
   • Insert images
   • Adjust formatting and layout
3. Click "start editing" to begin customising your presentation.
   
   

Change the content in each slide using AI suggest

Within the editor, you can use AI to refine individual slides

1. Click inside an editable text box and a “Suggest” option will appear.
2. Selecting this will generate AI-based wording suggestions related to your existing question.
   
   

Present and share the Mentimeter slides

Once your presentation is ready to be delivered and used with an audience, you have options to select to choose your sharing preferences.

1. Click the three dot “Share” icon for participant sharing options in the centre of the top toolbar.
   From here you can:
    
   • Share with participants – Generate a participation link or code for students to join your session.
   • Share with collaborators – Invite colleagues to co-edit and develop the presentation together.

QMUL’s AI feature in Mentimeter  - AI Menti Creator - things to note

OpenAI (LLM: gpt-4o, Embeddings: V3) technology to power Mentimeter’s AI features.

1. AI content creator feature: 
   
   
   • The prompt and the initially generated presentation content are shared with OpenAI to create the slides. 
     
     
   • OpenAI does not have access to any later edits, updates, or participant responses.
     
     
   • The generated content is handled in accordance with OpenAI’s data retention policies, and OpenAI does not continuously access or monitor the presentation after it has been created. 
     
     
   • The detail guide can be found on: AI Presentation Maker