Inclusive Step Challenges (custom step conversions)
Step challenges are a great way to bring a team together and get everyone moving. We support a few neat tricks to include everyone in your organization into a step challenge, also those with a physical handicap which may prevent them from walking, running, or other activities normally part of a step challenge.
Time-to-steps conversion
In order to support scenarios where cycling, yoga, or physically limited persons can still participate in a step challenge some configuration settings need to be made.
Enable time-to-steps conversions: On the Activity Conversions screen your specific time-to-steps conversions can be configured. Please note you'd need to enter the total number of steps for each hour of activity (not minute!) needs to be entered.
- Some example values are:
- Cycling: 10,000 steps/hour
- Swimming: 7,000 steps/hour
- Yoga: 3,000 steps/hour
- Pilates: 6,000 steps/hour
Rowing: 9,000 steps/hour
Enable the additional sports for your leaderboard(s): for each leaderboard you'd want to include the other activity types you need to select those sports. First enable this by clicking 'Allow More Sports':
and then select the allowed sports (make sure to always include 'Daily Steps'):
Please make sure only to select sports you have previously configured on the Activity Conversions screen. If you select a sport you have not converted you will see an error on the event home screen until this is resolved.
Prevent 'Double Dipping'
In order to prevent the same step from counting twice it's important to never select walking or running as an allowed activity on a leaderboard. Some GPS watches will include the step count in running and walking activities, so allowing those to qualify for a leaderboard will count each step twice (once from the activity and once from the daily summary). It's okay to include activities such as swimming and cycling which won't result in steps so will not cause double dipping.
When the same user has multiple daily summaries (e.g. tracking with a Fitbit, the app, and doing manual entry) the system will only use the daily summary with the most steps.