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 group and teammates!
Creating Group Challenges
Follow these step-by-step instructions to create a challenge for your group:
Open the Sworkit app's website, https://app.sworkit.com, and click on the menu lines in the upper left-hand corner.
Click on the Admin Portal from the menu bar on the left.
*STOP!* Make sure you've created a group for this challenge before creating one. You can double-check in the Admin Portal under Group Reports.
Don't see your group? Hit the orange + circle button and add it!
Click Challenges, and make sure you see Organization Challenges in the upper right corner of the window. If it doesn't say Organization Challenges, click the drop-down menu and select it.
Now click the + in the orange circle in the upper right corner.
Select Challenge Type
Select a Challenge Type: You can select from our popular challenges, or you can build your own challenge.
Template Challenges: The popular challenges are editable, pre-built templates for you!
Step-by-Step Challenge and Advanced Editor Challenge Builder: 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 on one page
Step-by-Step Challenge Walkthrough
Here's a walkthrough for you if you chose the step-by-step option.
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 "NEXT" to keep going.
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 and add a description with challenge information, goals and/or prizes. To personalize it even more, click on Background Image to pick a challenge banner.
***IMPORTANT*** Choosing Challenge Participants (Your Group):
FIRST, toggle OFF "Show Challenge Invite." (It should go from orange to white). This ensures the challenge will not be visible to everyone in your organization (only your group).
Next, choose Select Individuals.
Scroll down to find your created group then click on it.
To include your entire group, click Select X Individuals. Otherwise, click on each person individually to add them to the challenge.
Now, select "NEXT" and keep going.
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
Show Group Stats
Show Last 10 Workouts Stats
Show Team Rankings
Turn the following off:
Open Invite: Make sure this is toggled OFF.
To Save or Publish:
Still a work in progress? Choose Save and finish later. You can find the challenge to edit later in your Drafts.
Ready to get started and announce the challenge to your group? Choose Publish Challenge.
12. How to See Challenge Progress: Once the challenge has been published, members in the challenge can tap on the challenge banner, select View Challenge, and see challenge stats.
*IF YOU'D LIKE TO EDIT ALL CHALLENGE DETAILS AT ONCE AND ON THE SAME PAGE
Try our Advanced Editor feature to speed through the challenge creation process!
Want to share the challenge link?
1. Under Challenges, find your challenge in Drafts or Active (depending upon if it's published or not), then click on the challenge banner.
2. Click on Copy Challenge Link. It will be ready for you to paste and share!
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 All 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.
(Example):
After you select the banner, you will see a leaderboard like the example below. You should be able to tell who won from the leaderboard. HOWEVER, 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 > ACTIVE (if current) or 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.