With Beekast, you can create different types of activities to meet the needs of your presentations. Whether for training, an event, a workshop, or a meeting, these activities allow you to add interactivity, encourage participation, and engage your audience more effectively. Beekast offers 17 activities, organized into 3 categories in the Add a slide window.
What are the 3 categories of Beekast activities?
When you click Add a slide, activities are organized into three categories in the Create Slide tab:
Collaboration
Knowledge Check
Opinion
1. Collaboration activities
These activities help you involve your participants, break the ice, and generate ideas together.
Word cloud: allow participants to express themselves on a topic and instantly visualize responses in the form of a word cloud. This simple and quick activity is perfect for starting discussions.
Photo wall: invite participants to share a photo or a selfie to create a collaborative mosaic. Widely used during events, this visual activity makes it easy to capture and share the final result.
Board: Collect and organize participants' ideas in a collaborative board. You can create categories, assign colors to ideas, organize a vote, and turn ideas into actions or tasks. This activity is particularly useful for meetings and working workshops.
Whiteboard: co-create freely with participants using drawings, text, and images. An ideal solution for visual and collaborative work.
Speedboat: stimulate reflection using visual analogies such as a car, a boat, a hot air balloon, or a rocket to identify obstacles, drivers, and opportunities.
Matrix: participants evaluate a series of proposals according to two axes and instantly visualize the results in a matrix.
💡Good to know
Word cloud and Photo wall are ideal at the start of a session to break the ice. You can also use a poll with an emoji barometer to gauge your audience's mood.
The Board, Whiteboard, and Matrix activities are available with premium access.
2. Knowledge Check activities
These activities help measure participants' understanding and learning outcomes.
Quiz: participants complete a series of challenges, individually or in teams, to reach the final podium.
Quick check: host your session with a quiz including a countdown, a leaderboard, and a podium. Ideal for testing knowledge and energizing the group.
Matching: check the understanding of a concept by asking participants to match different elements together.
Find on image: participants must identify elements on an image by pointing to them correctly.
Correct Order: ask participants to place items in the correct order. A quick and engaging activity to check knowledge.
💡Good to know
The Correct Order and Quiz activities are available with premium access.
In Knowledge Check activities, answers cannot be modified once they have been submitted.
3. Opinion activities
These activities allow you to quickly collect your audience's opinions and visualize trends.
Dot Voting: present several proposals and assign several points to distribute. Participants vote, allowing you to immediately identify the group's priorities.
Poll: ask a question and display the results in real time. Participants can select one or multiple answers.
Rating: ask participants to rate a topic and display the average score live.
Survey: create a form with different types of questions to collect feedback, prepare a session, or gather information.
Pin on image: participants place markers on an image to indicate their choices or preferences.
Ranking: ask participants to rank a list of proposals according to their preferences and discover the order that emerges from the group.
💡Good to know
The Dot Voting, Survey, and Ranking activities are available with premium access.
❓FAQ
How many activities does Beekast offer?
Beekast offers 17 activities, organized into 3 categories in the Add a slide window: Collaboration, Knowledge Check, and Opinion.
Which activities are reserved for premium access?
The Board, Whiteboard, Dot Voting, Survey, Matrix, Ranking, Correct Order, and Quiz activities are available with premium access.
Which activity should I choose to break the ice at the start of a session?
Collaboration activities like Word cloud and Photo wall are ideal for breaking the ice at the start of a session.
Can I edit an answer submitted in a Knowledge Check activity?
No, in Knowledge Check activities, answers cannot be modified once they have been submitted.
What is the difference between Ranking and Correct Order, or between Pin on image and Find on image?
Ranking and Pin on image are opinion activities: they collect your participants' preferences, with no right answer. Correct Order and Find on image are Knowledge Check activities: participants must find the correct order or the elements you have defined.
Which activity should I use to gauge my audience's mood?
You can use a poll with an emoji barometer to gauge your audience's mood at the start of the session.
