Add time settings to your activity

Add time settings to your activity

With Beekast, you have the ability to add a time setting to your activity.

Add a stopwatch

It is possible to add a stopwatch in order to evaluate the duration of the activity.

To add a stopwatch to your activity: 
  1. Click on Add Slide, select your activity and access the activity edit panel.
  2. Once you have filled in the fields, you will find the "Time management" section on the panel.
  3. Click on Stopwatch.
  4. Click on Save to save the information.

Add a timer

It is possible to add a timer to your activities in order to determine its duration.
Once the timer runs out, the activity will automatically close, and this allows you to give your participants a specific amount of time to participate in your activity!
On the editing panel of each activity, find the timer in the Settings section. You also have the possibility to set a stopwatch or no time settings at all.

To add a timer to your activity:
  1. Click on Add a slide, select your activity and access the activity panel of edition.
  2. Once the fields are filled in, you will find at your right in the “Settings” panel of the activity, the section “Time management”.
  3. Click on the Timer and choose the desired amount of time.
  4. Click on Save to register the information.

Your activity is already created?

  1. Click on the three dots on the top right of the activity and then click on “Edit”.
  2. On the “Settings” panel on the right of your screen, go to the section “Time management”.
  3. Click on the Timer and select the desired amount of time.
  4. Click on Save to register the information.
You can restart the activity by clicking on “Continue activity” and/ or change the time limit by clicking on the three small dots at the top right of your activity slide.


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