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.