Ready to get some healthy competition going? Or just bring everyone together to work towards the same goal? As an admin, you can now create your very own challenges, personalized to your company and your co-workers!
Follow these step-by-step instructions to create a challenge:
Open the Sworkit app and tap on the menu in the upper left-hand corner.
Tap on the Admin Portal and then tap the menu in the upper left-hand corner (yes, you did just tap here).
Tap Challenges, and tap the + in the orange circle in the upper right corner.
Select Challenge Type: Popular Challenges or Build Your Own
Under Create a Challenge you'll find our popular challenges are listed and editable, pre-built templates for you!
Step-by-Step Challenge Builder and Advanced Editor: If you want to create something from scratch, select "Step-by-step Challenge Builder" for a step-by-step option or "Advanced Editor" to edit everything.
Popular Challenges Walkthrough
All you have to do is select your challenge > edit any details in the pre-built template > and publish the challenge. It will be live in your Active Challenges.
Want the challenge link to share with your team?
Once published, go to your Active Challenges > click on the challenge banner > select Copy Challenge Link. Now the challenge link is ready for you to paste and share!
Step-by-Step Challenge Builder Walkthrough
First, choose your Challenge Goal Metric
Workout Challenge Types:
> Workout Minutes (exact daily minutes of activity)
> Active Days (specific number of days to be active)
Step Challenge Types:
> Steps (choose a goal for daily steps or total for the period of the challenge)
> Distance (the winner is whoever covers the most miles or kilometers)
Select a challenge type, then click "NEXT" to keep going:
*See more info about the Advanced Editor at the end of this article.
Select Challenge Dates and Duration: Select a start date and the duration of your challenge on the drop-down calendar.
Select "NEXT" to keep going.
Determine your Challenge Details:
Name your challenge
Provide a description of your challenge goal/objective
Choose a background image with meaning to motivate
Provide a link where members can learn more about the challenge from say an internal website
Optionally, you may add translations for 14 different languages
Decide Who Will Participate in your Challenge:
All members of your organization.
Create teams by separating members of your organization and naming teams.
Select individuals to participate, which allows every person to compete on their own.
Show Challenge Invite: Determine whether you want the Challenge Invite to appear on all members of the organization's Sworkit home screen, giving them the choice to join. If you like this approach, make sure Show Challenge Invite is toggled ON.
Determine Challenge Goals: Decide what your Per Member Goal is, then pick the cumulative Challenge Goal that you’d like your entire group to reach.
Example Challenge Goals: 500 minutes of activity per member and 5,000 minutes of activity for the challenge goal
Set your Privacy Settings:
We recommend you keep the following on:
Show Total Stats: This allows members to see the cumulative stats for all participants during the challenge.
Show Group Stats: This allows members to see just the group stats for their team.
Show Last 10 Workouts Stats: This shows who got their workouts in most recently.
Show Team Rankings: This shows teams ranked by most activity per member. This is a great option to encourage friendly competition!
Still a work in progress?
Choose Save and finish later. Ready to get started and announce the challenge to your organization? Choose Publish Challenge.
Advanced Editor Walkthrough
If you'd like to edit all of the challenge details at once and on the same page, try our Advanced Editor feature to speed through the challenge creation process!
Viewing Challenge Leaderboards and Stats
Once the challenge has been published, members who join can tap on the challenge banner, select View Challenge, and see challenge stats. On this screen, if the challenge is an Open Invite, they may tap on the box with the arrow in the upper right corner to send or copy a link to the challenge.
Finding & Pulling Challenge Winners
*Make sure to pull challenge winners on a desktop or laptop versus the mobile app
Once your challenge is over, go to the Admin Portal, click on Challenges, select Organization Challenges from the drop-down in the top-right corner, pick PAST, then select the challenge you'd like by clicking on the challenge banner.
To see challenge leaderboards select View Challenge. You will see a leaderboard like the example below. If you'd like to get a comprehensive report with more specific activity and participation information, go to step #3.
3. To download a CSV report with challenge activity, navigate BACK to Challenges > All Challenges > PAST > then click on the challenge banner again. From here, select Download Stats, and a CSV report will download directly to your desktop.
Shoot an email to support@sworkit.com if you run into any issues while creating challenges. Have fun!
Challenge Ideas
Need some ideas for your challenges? Click here for some tried and true examples.