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How to Create a Challenge in SuperDash

Step-by-step guidance for creating your first challenge — from naming and setting dates to choosing modes, goals, and team options.

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Welcome to the SuperDash

Step into your challenge superpowers.

SuperDash is your new admin command center — a place to create, edit, and manage your Stridekick challenges without needing to go through our team each time. This first version (our MVP) gives you everything you need to start running your own programs while we keep building out new tools in the background.


Getting started

  1. Log in using the same email and password you use for the Stridekick mobile app.

  2. Once you’re in, you’ll land on your SuperDash dashboard.

    • If you’re brand new, you’ll see a blank state prompting you to create your first challenge.

    • If you’ve created challenges before, you’ll see them listed here.


Create a new challenge

Click Create a Challenge to open the setup form. You’ll fill out the following fields:

Field

Description

Required?

Challenge name

Something fun and descriptive — e.g., Turkey Trot 2025

Description

Short summary of what the challenge is about

Prize

Optional — add bragging rights, gift cards, or just for fun

Image

Upload a cover photo to represent your challenge

Start & end dates

Choose your challenge duration (up to 90 days for Unlimited admins). Pro tip: The most successful challenges last 30 days or less.

Challenge Mode

You can add up to three modes per challenge.


Choosing your challenge modes

As an Unlimited user you have access to all 11 challenge modes. You can add up to three modes per challenge. Each mode determines how your challenge is scored — from total steps to streak consistency to virtual race distance.

💡Here’s a quick overview of all of our challenge modes and best practices on how to stack challenges for maximum engagement.

Once you choose your mode(s), you’ll see additional fields appear that help you customize your challenge further.

Here’s what you’ll need to fill in depending on your challenge type:

Leaderboard

  • Metric you’d like the leaderboard to display (steps, active minutes, or distance)

  • Whether or not you’d like to include a daily activity cap

Target

  • Metric you’d like to measure (steps, minutes, distance)

  • Whether or not you’d like to include personalized goals

  • The overall challenge goal (e.g., 200,000 steps)*

  • Whether or not you’d like a daily activity cap

*Should be a large activity goal to reach by the challenge end.

Virtual Race

  • The total miles you’d like participants to cover by challenge end

  • Whether or not you’d like a daily activity cap

Streak

  • The metric you’d like to measure

  • Whether or not you’d like personalized goals (participants set their own within your range)

  • The daily goal you’d like to set

  • Whether or not you’d like a daily activity cap

Stick To It

  • The metric you’d like to measure

  • Whether or not you’d like personalized goals

  • The daily goal

  • How many times you’d like participants to reach that goal

  • Whether or not you’d like a daily activity cap

Freestyle

  • The activity you’d like participants to mark as complete in the app

  • How many times you’d like them to do it throughout the challenge

Team Leaderboard

  • Metric you’d like the leaderboard to display (steps, minutes, or distance)

  • Who you want to create teams (admins or participants)

  • Whether you’d like to set a maximum team size

  • Whether you want a daily activity cap

Team Virtual Race

  • The total race distance

  • Who you want to create teams (admins or participants)

  • Whether you’d like to set a maximum team size

  • Whether you’d like a daily activity cap

Group Virtual Race

Group Target

  • The metric you’d like to measure

  • The overall challenge goal

  • Whether or not you’d like a daily activity cap

💡 Need help choosing your mode? Check out our Ultimate Guide to Stridekick Challenge Modes.


About the daily activity cap (optional)

If you have some super steppers logging marathon-level stats, you can level the playing field by setting a daily activity cap.

The daily activity cap will limit the amount of activity a participant can score into the challenge each day. While all their data will sync to their profile, their challenge will only count up to the daily cap you set.

This keeps challenges fair and fun for everyone while giving all participants a shot at the top spots.


Team mode setup (optional)

If you’d like to run a Team Mode, you’ll then choose:

  • Who creates teams

    • Admins create all teams — you’ll manually add team names and images in SuperDash.

    • Participants create their own — users can name and join teams in the app (great for creative names and friendly rivalries).

  • Max team size (optional): You can set a cap (e.g., 5 members per team) to keep competition balanced.

  • Team Scoring: Scoring is based on the average total activity of a team member. This allows teams of different sizes to compete fairly. Learn more about our team scoring.


Final step: Create your challenge

Once everything looks good, click Create Challenge.

You’ll land on your Challenge Overview page where you can:

  • Review and edit details

  • Edit challenge dates (available until the challenge starts)

  • Copy your invite link or challenge code to invite participants

  • View participants as they join

  • Remove participants if needed

  • Manage teams


Pro tips for running a great challenge

  • Keep it simple. Too many modes or goals can be overwhelming.

  • Name it well. A catchy title and image drive participation.

  • Communicate early. Share the challenge code and start date in advance. Check out this blog on how to launch your challenge with a bang.

  • Celebrate! Plan a fun announcement or recap to keep energy high. Need Inspiration? Check out these prize ideas.


Need help or want to share feedback?

SuperDash is still in Beta — and you’re helping shape its future! If you find a bug, have a feature request, or want to share feedback, email [email protected].

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