Create a Board
Collect a set of ideas from your audience, structure and rank them based on a vote. You can also create actions and decisions from the idea cards sent by your participants!
Add a Board activity
To add the activity, click on "Add a slide" on the top left of your session, then scroll down the menu until you see Board and click on it.
When you choose the “Board” activity, the interface adapts instantly: a dedicated editing panel appears on the right of your screen, allowing you to customise your activity. At the same time, the system automatically saves your activity with the same name as the newly created activity (in this case, Board) and integrates it into your presentation, visible as a slide in the left-hand navigation bar.
Settings of the activity
You will have access to the following sections:
Title and Instructions
- Customise your Board activity! The default title is the name of the activity. To change it, delete the automatic title and enter your own question or a customised title.
- Add an instruction to give you more details about your activity. This option is optional.
Activity format
You can choose between “Live” or “Prepare in a notepad” participation.
- With “Share directly”, all participants send their ideas directly to the board and the ideas are visible to everyone once they have been sent.
- With "Prepare in notepad", participants can write down their ideas in a notepad (not visible to other participants) before publishing them on the board and making them visible.
Using the notepad, each participant sends their contribution(s) to a private space. They remain invisible to the other participants. This feature allows you to give your participants time to reflect individually before pooling their ideas.
You can add as many categories as you like by clicking on "Add a category". The colour that appears to the left of the category title field can be changed. And by clicking on the red bin on the right, you can delete suggestions.
For the activity format, you can also choose :
1. That the ideas are anonymous
2. Match ideas to colours
3. And enable voting, by likes or points
Launch settings
To make your activity even more dynamic, you can choose to display a Stopwatch or a Timer (to determine the duration of your activity).
If you add a Stopwatch, the proposals will be displayed to your participants. You can make them visible for 5 seconds by clicking on "Display temporarily".
Presentation settings
From here you can :
- Moderate ideas before they are published
Start your activity
To start your Board activity, like all the other activities, click on "Start" in the top right-hand corner (this only works when the presenter is scrolling through the slides).
Board features
Send an idea
Colour and Image
Category changes
Features for the ideas
The vote
Send an idea
To send an idea :
1. First select the category
2. Enter your idea in the dedicated space
3. Then click Send
Colour and Image
You can add colours to each idea you send, or send images to attach to your ideas. To make the activity more dynamic
These images can be added directly from your computer, from Beekast's royalty-free image bank, or via a web link from the page of your choice.
Category changes
- Once you have started using your Board, the "+” button to the right of the last column allows you to add other columns.
- From the three small dots to the right of each category, you can :
1. Edit the category
2. Hide it
3. Or delete it
Features for the ideas
From the three small dots next to each idea you send, you can :
1. edit the idea
2. move it to another category
3. create a group of ideas, to bring together similar ideas or ideas on the same subject
4. plan and assign an action to your participants
5. Make decisions
6. delete the idea
Note that only the owner can plan an action or make a decision from an idea card on the Board. And the actions and decisions taken will appear in the Action space on the banner to the right of your session.
The vote
Once all the ideas have been placed on the Board, you can proceed to the vote by clicking on Start polling at the top right of your activity. Click on Vote and assign Likes or Points to the ideas by clicking on them.
Layout options
You can choose between board view and list view. To do this, click on the Show board view or Show list view icon.
The list view gives you a more global view of your categories. You can easily expand and collapse categories, so you can change the way your items are displayed to give you an overall view.
Activity options
You can perform the following actions on your activity at any time:
- Reset
- Edit
- Duplicate
- Delete
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