On Count.It, it takes just a few minutes to create a challenge for your group. For a quick overview of the process, watch the short video below, or scroll down to see detailed step-by-step instructions.
Video Overview
Step-by-Step Instructions
To get started, click on the blue ➕ button on the bottom right of the group home screen.
Choose Your Goals
On the next screen, you can choose the goals that will determine the activities of your challenge, and set the difficulty. You may want to keep it simple and do a "Classic Steps" challenge — or you can broaden your challenge to include exercise, meditation, and more.
Tap through on any goal to learn more about it!
PRO Tip:
In every Count.It challenge, participants earn points for the activity that they log, and the more points they earn, the farther they move along a virtual path. The goal is to make it to the finish 🏁, though there can prizes for hitting milestones along the way as well. When you choose your goal(s), you are setting the difficulty of your challenge. A 10,000 step per day challenge is twice as hard as 5,000 steps per day!
Dates, Title, Description!
On the next screens, you will set your challenge dates, and duration.
If your challenge has a weekly goal, you must set the duration in an even multiple of weeks.
If you would like to set up a recurring challenge, turn on the auto-repeat preference. When one "edition" of your challenge ends, a new one will begin — and all goals, rewards, users, and teams will be carried over. The new challenge will be queued up in the "Coming Soon" area so people can see it in advance. When you want to stop the series from continuing, edit the most recent edition of your challenge while it is still "Coming Soon," and set the recurrence preference to "Does not repeat.
Now give your challenge a name and (required) description. This is a good place to provide a simple overview of your challenge, and begin to get people excited!
Add Teams
If your challenge will have teams, just tap to start adding them now. You can also add them later if you like.
Add Rewards
Now it's time to add some rewards! Just tap to get started, and for all the details on adding rewards, please see: How do I create goals and rewards for my challenge?
Set Manual Entry Preference
On the next screen you can set your preference for manual data entry. This setting controls whether activity entered by users directly into their fitness apps will be counted in your challenge. The default setting is to include all logged activity, and we recommend this for most challenges, particularly those involving exercise. For full details, please see How do I turn on or off manual entries?
Voila! Your challenge has been created. Don't forget to join it!
PRO Tip:
For any challenge, the challenge name, description, teams, and rewards can all be changed at any time. Once created, however, your challenge dates, goals, and manual entry preference can not be changed.