1. Sign-up for a Mentafy account within your insitution: You should have received an official link of the form https://my.mentafy.com/auth?id=uni Single-sign-on via Google or Microsoft can be used, those can be useful if you are logged in with these accounts anyway. Or just enter your email address to receive a verification code.

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  1. On your Mentafy home page “Start a new writing project”. Note: If you have already written your document and a version history is available choose ‘Analyse finished document’ to analyse your writing process based on the version history.

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  2. Enter a unique project name and deadline if known

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  1. Next choose what word process you will use and where your main writing document shall be stored, for a.) GoogleDocs in GoogleDrive b.) Microsoft Word either online in OneDrive or locally on your hard disk (requires MS Word Desktop application). Note: depending on the setup of your institution, you might have fewer options!

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  1. On the project overview page you can, among other things, start writing. Note: you will find the file on your cloud storage in a folder called like the project name. You can also open the text document directly and start writing - it is NOT required to use Mentafy’s UI.

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  1. Once you are finished writing and want to submit you need to go to the project overview and close the project to start report generation:

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  1. Report generation will start and take a while, but once it is finished you will see your document and the corresponding reports. Copy the shareable link to it and send it to your supervisor:

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