Weekly challenges

Find this week's challenge

Stride matches weekly challenges to your role group and your experience level, so people in other roles can see different challenges. A challenge appears on your board once it has been released for you.

• Current week shows the challenges in the most recent week that has been released. Earlier weeks move to Previous weeks, where you can still open a challenge. A challenge there earns points only while its own points window is open, and after that a submission is for practice.
• A challenge written for a specific AI tool appears only when your organization has turned that tool on.
• If the board says No challenges yet, nothing has been released for your role group and experience level, or your account does not have a role group or an experience level yet. The experience level comes from your onboarding assessment. When your admin releases a challenge that fits you, it shows up here.

1. Open Challenges in the sidebar.
2. Under Current week, read the card: the title, a short description, the difficulty (Beginner, Intermediate, or Advanced), the time estimate, and whether it is for all roles or matched to your role.
3. Check the timing on the card. While the points window is open it shows how many days or hours are left. After the window closes it says Open for practice with 0 points.
4. Choose Open challenge. If you have already submitted, the button says View challenge.

Read the task

Choose a challenge to open its page. It starts with any learning step, then the task itself.

• Learn first: when the challenge is linked to a Micro-learning, a link to it appears at the top of the page.
• The challenge: the applied task, with a time estimate, any links to open, and What to submit, which says what a good response includes.
• Resources: when your organization attached files or data, View resources jumps to a Resources card. Download one file, or download a whole folder as a .zip. Some resources ask you to finish a quest step first, and the card says so under Complete first.
• Optional advanced variant: when a challenge offers one, extra instructions appear. You choose Standard or Advanced before your first submission, and the choice is then locked. The Advanced variant can add competition points.
• Team scoring this week: when a challenge uses team scoring, a card explains how the winning team is decided.

Submit, edit, or delete your response

Each person has one submission per challenge. After you submit, the submission box is replaced by Your submission, which shows your variant, your competition points, and the XP awarded. Your name appears with your submission.

How many points and how much XP or BUX a submission earns depends on how your organization has set up challenge rewards, so this guide does not list amounts.

1. On the challenge page, choose Standard or Advanced if a variant choice is offered.
2. Write your response in the submission box. You can add https links and code blocks but not images, and a preview shows how your response will look.
3. Choose Submit. Stride confirms the competition points and XP you earned, or tells you that the window had closed.
4. To change your response, choose Edit under Your submission, update the text, and choose Save changes. Your variant stays as you chose it.
5. To withdraw your response, choose Delete and then confirm with Yes, delete & clawback.

After the points window closes

Each challenge has a points window. While it is open, a submission can earn competition points and rewards. When it closes, the page says Window closed and 0 points. You can still submit for practice: your completion is recorded, but the submission earns 0 points.

Previous weeks keeps earlier challenges available so you can revisit them. A challenge there still shows how many days are left while its points window is open.

• If a challenge you took part in is later replaced by a newer version, the older page is marked Historical and read only. You can still read its submissions, replies, and likes, but you cannot add new ones.

Likes, replies, and Featured

Below the task, Submissions lists what others shared. Sort the list by Newest, Most liked, or Most commented. Each entry shows its author's name.

• Use the thumbs-up button to like a submission. You cannot like your own.
• Select the reply count to write a reply, and use Delete to remove one of your own replies.
• Featured marks submissions that your administrator chose to highlight.
• Likes your submission receives, and being featured, can add to what it earns, depending on your organization's settings.

Team scoring and standings

Weekly challenges are role-group competitions, so your team here is your role group, which your Client Admin sets up. When a challenge uses team scoring, the Team scoring this week card names the rule: the highest average score among eligible members, or the highest participation rate. It also shows any team reward your administrator added.

Results are finalized after every eligible challenge in that week has closed, and until then the card says so. Final team standings then list each role group with its average points and the share of members who took part, and mark the winner.

• If every eligible team finished with a zero primary score, the card says there was no winner.
• If challenges in the same week were set up with different scoring rules, Stride calculates no winner and says so.

If something does not load or open

• Challenges unavailable: Stride could not load the board. Choose Retry. Nothing is assumed about your challenges until it loads.
• Challenge not found: the challenge is unavailable to you, for example because it is outside your role group or needs an AI tool your organization has not turned on. Choose Back to challenges.
• Resources are temporarily unavailable: choose Retry on the Resources card.