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!
Before you get started: Make sure your app is updated to version 12.0.0 or later to access these new features. If you don’t see the updates yet, head to your app store and check for the latest version.
Follow these step-by-step instructions to create a challenge:
Open the Sworkit app or desktop 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.
Tap Challenges, and tap the + in the orange circle in the upper right corner.
Choose Your Challenge Setup
Before building your challenge, choose from one of our preselected templates or create your own from scratch.
Next, choose whether you’d like a step-by-step experience to guide you through building your challenge, or select the Advanced Editor to create your challenge all on one screen.
Choose Your Challenge Audience
First, decide who should participate. You can choose between an individual challenge or a team challenge:
Individual Challenge
Participants work toward their own goals while competing with others.
If you want employees to opt in, leave the “Add/Edit Members” section set to 0.
If you’d prefer to automatically enroll employees, select “Add/Edit Members” and add participants. This will join them to the challenge without requiring opt-in—ideal for specific groups or departments.
Team Challenge
Participants are grouped into teams that compete against each other.
You can allow employees to create their own teams, while still having the option to create teams for them. Just toggle on Allow Participants to Add Teams.
Or, you can choose to fully manage teams as an admin, assigning all participants yourself.
You can also set a maximum number of members per team if needed.
Note: Participants can only be on one team at a time.
Choose Your Challenge Type
Next, choose the type of challenge based on the goal you want to track. You can select from steps, distance, workout minutes, Sworkit workouts, or active days.
Note: For step or distance challenges, participants must have a synced device to track their activity, as Sworkit does not include a built-in step or distance tracker.
Not sure where to start? Check out these best practices to choose the challenge type that works best for your employees.
Set Your Challenge Dates
Select the dates you’d like your challenge to begin and end. Then, select "NEXT" to keep going.
Set Your Challenge Goal
Choose your challenge goal based on the type of challenge you’ve selected—such as active minutes, steps, active days, workouts, or distance.
You can set goals in a way that best fits your program:
Daily goal
Weekly goal
Entire challenge duration
For example, if you're running a step challenge and want participants to reach 10,000 steps per day, you can set a daily goal of 10,000. The system will automatically calculate the total goal for the full challenge duration (e.g., 70,000 steps for a 7-day challenge), either per individual or across the organization.
This flexibility makes it easy to align your challenge goals with your overall wellness objectives.
Customize Your Challenge Details
Now it’s time to bring your challenge to life by adding key details:
Name your challenge to reflect its purpose and theme
Add a short description for the homepage, along with a more detailed description participants will see when they open the challenge
Choose a background image that inspires and motivates your employees
Include a link to an internal or external resource where participants can learn more
Add translations (optional) to support 15+ languages and create a more inclusive experience
Set Privacy & Visibility
Next, choose your privacy and visibility settings for the challenge.
Toggle Leaderboard & Stats on if you’d like participants to see rankings and progress.
Toggle it off if you prefer a more private experience without visible stats or competition.
You can also control whether the challenge is visible for employees to discover on their homepage and join.
Note: Participants have the option to hide their individual activity. If they choose to do so, they will appear as a Private Member on the leaderboard.
Review & Save Your Challenge
Once you’re finished, you have a couple of options:
Save and finish later to keep your challenge in draft mode and come back anytime
Review your challenge to see an overview of all details before finalizing
Publish Your Challenge
When you’re ready to launch your challenge, start by reviewing all details, then click Create Challenge to publish. Once published, your challenge will appear under Active.
If you’re not ready to publish, you can save your challenge as a draft and return to it later. When you’re ready, go to your Challenge Dashboard, select your challenge under Drafts, left click, and select Publish Challenge.
Challenge Reporting
You can access challenge reports at any time—during or after the challenge—to view key metrics such as participants, names, emails, active days, active minutes, steps, distance, workouts, and more.
To download a report:
Go to your Admin Dashboard
Select Challenges from the left-hand menu
Choose Active or Past, depending on the challenge status
Select your challenge, then click Download Stats
**New** Team Challenge Options
Check out this article for more information.
Questions?
If you run into any issues while creating your challenge, feel free to reach out to your Sworkit Customer Success contact—we’re here to help. Have fun!