What types of challenges can I create in Beanstack?
The sky is the limit when it comes to your reading challenge! You have multiple reading challenge options within Beanstack, including:
- Our traditional reading challenges award badges for logging reading (by minutes or books) for any book, completing activities, and/or writing book reviews.
- Bingo reading challenges let you organize logging, activity, and review badges on a bingo card, and then award a bingo badge when students earn all the badges in a row, column, or diagonal, and can also include an additional full card badge for earning all the badges on the card.
- Reading list challenges award badges for logging reading (by minutes or books) for the books within the challenge’s set reading list, and can also award activity badges. You can add links to the included titles so that students can access reading content and e-resources directly from the challenge.
- Benny-enabled challenges assist teachers by engaging students in a Book Talk with Benny after they finish a title, to gauge their understanding of the book.
We create a host of reading challenge templates in all of these challenge types, including:
- Seasonal challenge templates for each month, based on themes like Black History Month, Fall Into Reading, and more
- Yearlong challenge templates
- Sponsored challenge templates for Summer Reading and Winter Reading
- Evergreen challenge templates like 100 Books Before Middle School, AP English, and more
- Challenge templates with picks from popular authors featured on The Reading Culture podcast
You can see all the challenge templates on your site by logging in to your admin dashboard, clicking Challenges, and then selecting the Challenge Templates tab. You can also browse everything available within this section of the Help Center.