Walk 35,000 steps every week
Who can do this:
- Anyone with the editing permissions for Challenges, Homescreen, and Messages
Set up an ongoing, attainable weekly step goal to inspire employees to be physically active.
Here is a summary of the Challenge:
- Goal: Walk 35,000 steps every week, on an ongoing basis. Steps must be completed daily.
- Challenge type: Step Challenge that tracks steps through the user's mobile device.
- Incentive: Reach the top of the leaderboard.
- Competition type: Compete with others.
- Preparation: Employees need to have downloaded the app to their mobile device for steps to be tracked. In the user list, a mobile icon indicates the app has been downloaded.
Add a Step Challenge
Add a new Step Challenge as follows:
- Go to Engagement ➤ Challenges and click Add.
- Select Step Challenge.
Complete the setup
In the setup, fill in the details:
Field | Description |
|---|---|
Title | Enter a header (e.g., Join the step challenge!). |
Icon | Select an icon (e.g. Shoe). |
Description | This is generated for you, based on how you complete the fields below. |
Type | Select Step Tracking. |
Timeframe | Select Recurring Period. |
Period | Select Weekly. This means they can receive one Challenge completion per week |
Calculation type | Select Daily Consistency to require a specific percentage of the total weekly steps to be completed daily. This mean they can't complete all their steps on one or two days. |
Goal | Enter the minimum number of steps they have to complete each day (e.g., 5,000). |
Goal summary | This is automatically generated for you. Click Copy to description. |
Availability | Assign the Challenge by selecting Groups/Teams or Tags. |
Save & close
In the bottom-right of the Challenge, select Save and close.
Since this is a recurring Challenge, upon saving, it is immediately visible and scoring begins, unless you hide or disable it.
When does scoring reset in a weekly Challenge?
Since the score in a weekly Challenge resets every Sunday at midnight, it is recommended to keep your Challenge hidden until Monday morning. To learn more, refer to How do I manage recurring Challenges?
Send a message
After you've saved the Challenge, send a message about it:
- Go to Messages ➤ Compose.
- Choose recipients, select a channel and enter a brief message (e.g., Join the Step Challenge!)
- Tick Include link to app content and select the Challenge.
- Click Send message.
Your message immediate goes out to the recipients you selected, and the Challenge continues until you disable or remove it.
