Tags: Challenges, Staff
To learn more about challenges, including setup and badges, visit Beanstack for Everyone.
Automatic Challenges allow schools and districts to opt in to receive monthly reading challenges that will be published to your Beanstack site. These challenges will have pre-set properties, including:
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Automatic Enrollment turned on
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Available for grades Babies & Toddlers - Adult
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Minutes logging badges (10 badges for a total of 300 minutes)
Challenges for the next month are published between the 21st and 28th of preceding month.
Note: If you enable automatic challenges during or after the 21st of the month, this delays the publishing of your first automatic challenge. For example, February’s auto-challenge will not be published if you enable on or after January 21st. March’s “Read Across America” will be your first automatically published challenge.
Media specialist plus users and district administrators can turn this on or off for their schools respectively. To enable this feature:
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Log into the admin view of your school site.
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Navigate to Challenges > Challenges.
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Go to the “Automatic Challenges” tab.
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Toggle on the “Enable Automatic Challenges” option.
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Select which challenges you would like to schedule for auto-publishing on your site.
Monthly Challenge Calendar
| August 2026 | |
| Back to School | Aug 1, 2026–Aug 31, 2026 |
| September 2026 | |
| Fall Into Reading | Sep 1, 2026–Sep 30, 2026 |
| October 2026 | |
| Hallow-Read | Oct 1, 2026–Oct 31, 2026 |
| November 2026 | |
| Read Grateful | Nov 1, 2026–Nov 30, 2026 |
| December 2026 | |
| Reading Wrap-up | Dec 1, 2026–Dec 31, 2026 |
| January 2027 | |
| Winter Reading 2026 | Jan 1, 2027–Jan 31, 2027 |
| February 2027 | |
| For the Love of Reading | Feb 1, 2027–Feb 28, 2027 |
| March 2027 | |
| Read Across America | Mar 1, 2027–Mar 31, 2027 |
| April 2027 | |
| Spring Into Reading | Apr 1, 2027–Apr 30, 2027 |
| May 2027 | |
| Teacher Appreciation Month | May 1, 2027–May 31, 2027 |