Author a weekly challenge

Find your challenges

Content > Challenges lists your organization's challenges and the shared Stride challenges. Use Search, the status chips (Draft, Upcoming, Active, and Closed), and Filter by role to narrow the list. Choose Show history to include older versions.

Switch between Table and Role View with the buttons above the list. Role View shows one card per role, with All cohort first and the roles in alphabetical order. A card lists its first 15 challenges and a See all button. A challenge for several roles appears on each of their cards. Click a card title to open the Table filtered to that role.

• Open a row to see its details. A Platform tag marks a shared Stride challenge, which you can Duplicate but not edit.
• A Pending approvals panel appears above the list when Creators have challenges waiting for review.

Create a challenge

• A challenge needs a Title, an Applied task, and at least one approved linked micro-learning before you can save it.
• To attach synthetic data, save the challenge first, then reopen it and use the Resources section.
• The Active switch is on by default. An inactive challenge is hidden from learners.

1. Open Content, then Challenges, and choose New challenge.
2. Enter a Title of up to 80 characters. Add a Theme and a Theme description if you want them.
3. Choose a Duration in 15-minute steps, from 15 to 600 minutes.
4. Use Linked micro-learnings to pick an approved micro-learning. The first one is Primary. You can add up to 10, and the others are Supplementary. The challenge's Level follows the Primary.
5. Choose a Discipline and a Platform.
6. Choose a Competition scope and the Governed role fit that goes with it.
7. Write the Applied task. It is required. Add Submission expectations and Featuring guidance if they help.
8. Choose Create challenge. The challenge is saved as a Draft.

Advanced variant and rewards

The Advanced variant is an optional harder path for learners. Turn on Enable advanced variant, then add Advanced instructions and an Advanced difficulty. Enabling it also needs a fixed XP delta, which only a Client Admin can set.

• Advanced variance rule: Fixed XP delta, or Disabled.
• Team winner rule: Highest average, Participation rate, or Disabled. A rule other than Disabled needs Team winner XP, and the challenge needs a Program week to pay it.
• A challenge for a single role cannot have a team winner, and a Role set challenge needs at least two role groups to score teams.
• Administrator-provided recognition: you must choose either a description of up to 500 characters or No administrator-provided reward.
• Base participation XP and Participation BUX: leave them blank to use your Point Settings values for the challenge's level.

Schedule a challenge

A challenge goes live at its Release at date and time and earns points for its Window. With Release at blank, the challenge stays a draft. You can also set the schedule from Release Timeline in Challenge Ops. A shared Stride challenge cannot be scheduled by a Client Admin, so duplicate it first and schedule your copy.

Program week groups challenges on the Release Timeline, and it matters for team winners. A week's team-winner XP is paid only after every challenge in that Program week has closed, and only when they all use the same team winner rule and XP. A challenge with a team winner rule and no Program week never pays team-winner XP.

1. Open the challenge form and find the Admin Only block.
2. Set Release at.
3. Set Window (days) from 1 to 90. The default is 14.
4. Set a Program week if you want the challenge grouped with others.
5. Save the challenge.

Review and update a challenge

A Creator sends their own challenge drafts to review, and a Client Admin can send any draft to review. A different Client Admin approves it. Learners see a challenge once an Approved, Active version reaches its Release at time.

1. Open Content and find the challenge in the Organization review queue.
2. Open it and choose Submit for review.
3. A different Client Admin reviews it and chooses Approve, or Request changes with a note.
4. To change an Approved challenge, open it, choose Edit, and save to create a Draft version.