DeskActive Client Introduction
The DeskActive Client application guides you through your activity sessions, using animations, text and images to explain the activities and even provides helpful health & wellbeing advice.
DeskActive Client enables you to communicate with a 'virtual' health provider, who can adjust your activity program for you and help you out with any difficulties you may be experiencing with your stretches or exercises.
DeskActive Client also keeps you informed of your progress over time, with graphical displays of the numbers of sessions/activities you’ve completed and shares your progress with your health provider.
To Begin A DeskActive Session
There are a number of ways to start a DeskActive session.
Either:
- Click 'Start' when DeskActive Reminder alerts you that a session is due.
- Right-click the DeskActive Reminder system tray icon, and choose 'Start Session'.
- Double-click the DeskActive icon on your Windows desktop.
- From the Windows 'Start' menu, Select 'All Programs | DeskActive | DeskActive Client'. Simple.
DeskActive Client Main Screen
The main screen of DeskActive consists of the top tabs that allow you to jump to key areas of the application with ease. These tabs include:
- Activity/Advice Tab: used to display stretch, exercise or wellbeing advice content.
- Messages Tab: an integrated e-mail style message system, allowing communication with your health provider.
- Progress Tab: used to update you graphically on your weekly progress (activities and sessions completed), and also allows tabular views of past performance.
- Library Tab: used to select stretch, exercise and wellbeing advice content and browse through content available.
- Options Tab: used to configure various options available, regarding frequency and length of sessions, alert options and the way content is presented.
- About Tab: information about DeskActive, your health provider, and your company, as well as license information.
Help is accessed via the 'Help' button at top-right of the screen.
Also at top-right are the close 'X' and minimize '_' buttons, used to shutdown the application or minimize it to the taskbar respectively.
DeskActive Session & Mini-Break Progress
DeskActive Client automatically guides you through your session, in the order shown above:
- If any new messages have been received, you will either be taken to the Messages Tab | Message View (if a single message has been received), or the Messages Tab | Folder View (if multiple messages have been received). Click "Next" to continue with session.
- Your activities will be presented to you one after the other. Click 'Start' to begin each activity.
- Your session will then display Advice entries, made up of text and images giving general wellbeing advice from various topic areas.
- Your session will display the available/selected bonus content before concluding the session. This content can be made of news, tips or short comics.
- Your session will conclude with the Progress screen, which presents you with a graphical indication of the number of activities you’ve completed that week and in previous weeks.
In addition to following the defined order of screens, you can jump to any part of the DeskActive Client application using the tabs along the top of the screen.
Bullet-Breaks
Bullet-Breaks are simple health reminders that appear periodically (if enabled) to remind you to think of your health and wellbeing at all times. They do not require you to stop working - they simply appear with a simple health suggestion, and fade away a few seconds later.
Keyboard Shortcuts
Particular common actions can be carried out by pressing a single keyboard key:
- ENTER
- Advances you to the next activity or screen in the session
(Same as pressing the Next/Start/Continue or Done button on most screens) - BACKSPACE
- Restart current activity, or move to previous activity (Back button)
- S
- Skip the activity (Skip button), or select an Alternative (Alt button)
- P
- Pause the current activity (Pause button)
- F1
- Show help for the current screen (Help button)