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 (iPhone: Health app / Android: Google Fit). Entering steps manually in HeiaHeia is also possible, using Steps as activity type.
Ready-made challenge templates:
In Admin tools, under Run Challenges, you will find ready-made templates for two different types of step challenges:
Forward - march! Team step challenge and Step millionaire challenge with a personal goal.
- Creating challenges is easy - all the settings are pre-selected for you. All you have to do is set the start and end dates for your challenge, add a good headline and choose a background image.
- In the Challenge info, you can enter more information about the challenge if you wish. You can see this info in the app, on the challenge's own page.
- Team race: you can also choose whether to count the steps per team member or the total sum of all steps.
- Launch the challenge.
- Consider whether you would like to reward participants in some motivating way.
- Inform the community about the new challenge and possible rewards. You can find ready-made communication materials in HeiaHeia Academy!
Setting up your own step challenge:
- Choose a challenge type. For example a common goal or a team race.
- Choose steps as input.
- Set the total target amount for common goal or personal goal challenges. In Team Race and Open Goal challenges, you collect as many steps as possible without a predefined target. If needed, we can help you set the appropriate target amount.
- Choose a start and end date and finish by adding a good headline and image. Launch the challenge.
- Consider whether you would like to reward participants in some motivating way.
- Inform the community about the new challenge and possible rewards. You can find communication materials in HeiaHeia Academy!
Tips for informing your community members about importing the step data:
- Connect your wearable OR the health app of your phone (Health app / Google Fit) to HeiaHeia. We recommend you to connect only one of these, as connecting BOTH 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
- activities that are logged manually into HeiaHeia, using the activity type Steps.
Steps cannot be edited afterwards.
More information about setting up HeiaHeia Challenges can be found here.