Competitions use the same main elements as Campaigns (actions and points) but with the additional elements of a Registration Timeframe and Team Leaderboards. Tap into your employees' innate competitive drive using a friendly competition to rally them around a topic or cause. Read below for more instructions and best practices on how to run Competitions. Note: Please visit the User Roles & Permissions page to see how the levels of Management Panel access change your ability to publish content.

Competitions User Guide

Competitions are different from campaigns as they have two time periods: competition registration timeframe and a competition timeframe.

• The competition registration timeframe can overlap with the competition timeframe if the Admin would like users to be able to register for the competition even after it is live.

  • During the registration timeframe, users cannot see any actions. This is intentional so no one gets a leg up by starting early! Actions become viewable at the start of the competition.

  • If there is an overlap between the two timeframes, and a user who is not registered for the competition tries to complete an action when the competition starts, they will be prompted to register for the competition.

  • You can optionally remove the 10 points earned for joining competitions.

  • If there is no overlap between the two timeframes (the registration timeframe ends before the competition timeframe begins), then someone who misses the registration period may not earn points in the competition (but they can see and complete actions).

    

Often, the Registration Period for the Competition is set to the same time frame as the Competition. But there are reasons for having a registration period that is different than the length of the Competition:

• The Competition aligns with an actual, in-person Event, and you want to make sure people are signed up and ready to participate ahead of time to avoid issues on launch day.
• The Actions in the Competition require some preparation and you want people to be able to review them before hand but not take them
• Winning the Competition requires that the User has been participating for at least a certain period of time so you want to set the registration end date to at least that amount of time before the end of the Competition
• You want to essentially advertise the Competition before it starts to build up interest so you set the registration period to start early so that the Competition appears on the Take Action page, but no one can participate until the start date.

Competitions are different from campaigns, as Admins can select and limit how scores are displayed.

• By default, the Leaderboard will show scores by every Team Type. If the Admin selects a specific Team Type here, then the leaderboard will only show scores for those teams. For example, for a company that has Team Types “Department”, “Location” and “Building”, the admin can select “Building” so that the leaderboard will display scores by “Building”.

Creating a Competition

To create a competition, check the check box in step 1 of the campaign builder. That turns your campaign into a competition.

Add the Teams that will be competing against each other into the Campaign Visibility field in Step 1 of campaign builder.