Here's how:
Using the template
Download the Challenge template by navigating to: Participation Game > Challenges > Add > Upload Challenges
2. Once you open it, you can use the pre-filled content as a guide, or paste your activities in the columns:
3. Use these steps to fill in the rows and columns:
Type: How are your players completing this challenge?
App for In-App challenges
QR for QR Code Challenges
Staff for Staff-Scored challenges
B. Name: What activity are your players completing to get points?
Check-in (for QR Code only)
Guess the Word
Photo Upload
Trivia
Poll
Survey
Caption,
Word Cloud,
Check-in Code (for In-App only)
C. Name: This is the backend name of the game. Only visible to Admins.
D. Title: this is what players will see as the challenge's name in the Player App
E. Description: the description will be visible in the Challenge list and on the Challenge itself.
F. Points: assign a point value to this challenge
G. Code: if you're creating a Check-in Code challenge fill this out with the code required from your players
H. Instructions: the instructions will tell your players what to do once inside of the challenge
I. Prompt: Fill only for: Guess the Word, Word Cloud, Caption, and Photo Upload.
J. Correct Response: For Guess the Word only
These are the very basic ones you'll need to fill out. The rest of the columns correspond to other options and features. If you need additional help, send us a chat message and we'll go over the template with you.
Hot Tip: if there is anything else written on the template other than the challenges on their corresponding columns, you will get an error message when uploading.
4. Save the file once you're done. You're now ready to upload all of your challenges into the backend!
Uploading into the backend
After saving the file to your computer:
Navigate to Participation Game Home > Challenges
2. Click the upload challenges link to upload the spreadsheet which you have prepared.
3. Select choose file to choose the spreadsheet which you have prepared and then Select Upload Challenges
4. Click on the Choose File button to browse your computer for the Excel file you've just created. After selecting it, click on Upload Challenges.
Note that the most recent template is always located on the “download template” link above.
All challenges should now be loaded into the backend.
This is how the uploaded challenges should look:
Adding images
To add images to your challenges:
On your challenges list, click the Edit button next to your Challenge
Look for Media Type. Set it to Image and then upload a picture.
3. To set an image as the badge, make sure you've selected Image on the Badge Type field. You can then browse your computer for the image and then save changes.
4. To add an image to the description, upload your picture on the Image field and then save changes.
