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title: "How to Build a Wellness Challenge"
url: "https://terryberry.productfruits.help/en/article/how-to-build-a-wellness-challenge"
language: "en"
last_updated: "2026-09-05T15:37:18.870Z"
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# How to Build a Wellness Challenge

For Administrators

Wellness challenges keep employees active and engaged, and the challenge builder gives admins control over enrollment, team setup, and visibility. This article walks through creating a challenge, adding a team element, organizing teams and participants, and managing recognition wall visibility.

### **Creating a Challenge**

1.  Log in and navigate to the **Admin Panel**.
2.  Select **Create a Challenge** and choose the map you'd like to use.
3.  Enter the challenge settings.
4.  Choose how participants join:
5.  **Add Participants:** add employees directly.
6.  **Invite Participants:** send invitations.
7.  **Skip This Step:** allow participants to self-join.

### **Making It a Team Challenge**

To add a team element:

1.  Select a map, and in the settings choose **Teams** instead of **Individuals**.
2.  Choose whether to track the team's **average steps** or **total steps**.
3.  Once the challenge is created, go to **Admin Panel > Teams** to set up how your teams are organized.

### **Setting Up Teams and Participants**

Two tools give admins more control over how teams and members are organized:

**Batch Team Creation** lets you create and upload multiple teams at once. You control each team's name, size, and description, making it easy to organize large groups before the challenge begins.

**Member Upload** lets you assign employees to specific teams in bulk, rather than waiting for members to self-select during registration or at challenge time.

### **Recognition Wall Visibility**

By default, all challenges post to the recognition wall to congratulate participants who complete the challenge. To turn this off, adjust the setting in the challenge settings.

**Challenge Ideas**

A few challenge types that tend to drive strong participation:

-   **Step Challenge** — keeps employees moving with friendly competition.
-   **Turkey Trot Prep** — builds up to a 5K with a running or steps challenge.
-   **Hydration Challenge** — simple, accessible, and easy to run alongside anything else.