Canvas activity

Discover the final version of the Canvas activity!

Thanks to all our users for their suggestions for improvements to the new Canvas activity! Your feedback really helped us to develop this feature.


Not familiar with the Canvas activity yet? 

Canvas is Beekast’s new collaborative activity. It is a whiteboard-type activity with a number of features that allow you to:

• lead an ideation session with sticky notes, manual grouping and drawings

• work on your own visual background to generate even more ideas with significant contextualisation

• vary your ice-breaker activities by trying out our new Blob tree inspiration, for example

• digitise your team rituals and set up your visual management with a regular Canvas – perfect for remote and hybrid teams

• pass on information to your participants using a diagram or explain how something works using a drawing in real time during your session

• organise your ideas or work together on a mind map using our simplified tools

The Canvas activity gives you freedom to create something together with your participants, with or without prior preparation.

Included in this Canvas update

Improved user experience

See the whole Canvas

Canvas’s zoom feature now adapts to the content as it loads. This means that the entire canvas is visible when you launch the activity.

Improved sticky notes

We have reworked the size of the sticky notes and the placement of text so that it is better suited to the automatic zoom level.

A visible grid

You can now display a grid on your Canvas using the keyboard shortcut “G”. This magnetic grid helps you to easily align your items.

Reminder of keyboard shortcuts

You can access a number of features using keyboard shortcuts. To make things easier, we’ve listed them all in a cheat sheet that you can access in the Canvas interface (by the zoom button).

You’ll also find them in the toolbox.

Improved freehand tool

To make freehand drawing and use on a mobile or tablet easier, the freehand tool will now stay activated unless you choose another tool. You can also draw freehand with the “empty” (unfilled) shapes.

Improved arrows

You can now personalise arrows and choose the shape of each end.

New shapes

We’ve also added new shapes, so you can now use triangles and parallelograms as well as the existing ones.

Export visuals

You can take a screenshot of your entire Canvas to keep track of your session. To tailor it to your context, choose the resolution you want to have greater flexibility with bigger Canvases.

Remember that you can also find the list of sticky notes in your session statistics document.

Take part on your mobile

Your participants can add to your Canvas activity using their smartphone or tablet.

Unlimited participants

You can now invite as many participants as you like to a Canvas activity. However, to ensure the best user experience, we recommend using this activity with groups that aren’t too big. You can read our technical recommendations on the page in the help centre.

Inspirations to save you time

We have a range of inspiration templates for the Canvas activity so that you can easily plan collaborative meetings.

Whether it’s our new Blob tree template or one of the variations of our Board activity (The 5 Whys, Thinking Hats, ROTI, etc.), discover our 16 templates to help you reinvent your meetings with a visual activity like the Canvas. 

See our templates

Ideas for improvements?

If you’d like us to develop new features for the Canvas activity, please share your suggestions with us in the Beekast Community!