Team Challenge Overview

Team challenges allow smaller groups within the overall program to work together to reach their goals. This is helpful because it creates a sense of accountability that gives individuals within the group a reason to encourage each other. It can also encourage friendly competition between different departments within an organization.

How Team Challenges Work

Team challenges include teams rather than specific members. If a team is entered into a competition, all of its members will be participating in the challenge.

Rather than individual step counts or points, the default setting for a Team challenge will compare the average steps of each team. The reason we use an average is that this will allow teams of any size to compete fairly with each other.

Team Leaderboards

Teams will have their own leaderboards which members can view via their Team page. After a member joins a team, they can navigate to that team page to see the step counts of all members on their team. These will help people share information and hold each other accountable.

Please keep in mind that teams aren't linked to any one challenge, and so the leaderboard on the team page won't automatically use the date range of the current challenge. The leaderboard defaults to showing the previous seven days. If team members feel like their steps aren't being properly reflected, ask them to make sure they have adjusted the date range fields next to the leaderboard.

How to Create a Team Challenge and Invite Members

You can create a team challenge through your admin panel.

1. Open your admin panel.
2. Select the Challenges Tab and select Create a Challenge.
   1. Only movement challenges can be team challenges. Preventative Care and Wellness challenges are always individual-based.
3. Select one of the movement challenges. The screen will scroll to the Next button, press it to confirm your choice.
4. Enter the information for your challenge. Make sure to select the "Teams" option rather than Individual.
   1. Once you've selected Teams, you'll see a new option populate below "How to Track":

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      2. "Average" is the default. If your teams are competing against one another, keep this selection.
      3. "Total" should be selected if you want each team's total steps added together. This option works well if your teams are striving for a group goal. For example, if each team is trying to reach a common goal, like 1 million steps.

5. You can either Add Teams, which will add them directly to the competition, Invite Teams, which will send a notification the team leader must accept, or skip invites and let teams join on their own.

   

6. To add or invite specific teams, click Show Teams to expand the search feature. Search for the teams you want to add or invite by name, or browse the available list of teams. Click Add or Invite next to the correct team names.

   

7. Click Next to complete challenge creation.