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Setting up a Step Challenge

This article provides you useful tips on setting up a step challenge.

Step challenges are a very popular way of engaging people in free-time healthy activity. The number of daily steps also has to do with real health benefits, such as prevention of disease.

In setting up a step challenge for your community, there are a few things to keep in mind to measure the steps correctly and to avoid duplicating step counts.

Steps are usually imported into HeiaHeia

  • from a wearable or
  • from a phone's health app (iPhone: Health app / Android: Health Connect).
  • In Android phones, it is also possible to sync steps just by connecting the phone with HeiaHeia (without any additional devices or apps).
  • Entering steps manually in HeiaHeia app / browser version is also under the plus button  possible 

Ready-made challenge templates: 

In Admin tools, you can choose a step challenge as follows: 

  • Click on Challenges => START HERE! 
  • Choose Own choices and on the next page choose as measurement unit for the challenge: Steps
  • Continue by  selecting the rest of the challenge details.

Tips for informing your community members about importing the step data:  

  • You can use this article to inform your members how to log steps: Logging steps in HeiaHeia
  • We recommend you to connect only one way to sync steps, as connecting many devices or apps to HeiaHeia may cause duplicate imports of steps. More information here
  • You can log all your activities manually into HeiaHeia, but for the step challenge, only the following data will count:
    • daily activity imported from your wearable or phone and
    • steps that are logged manually into HeiaHeia, using the plus button => add steps manually. 

 

More information about setting up HeiaHeia Challenges can be found here