Create Your First Community Challenge

Learn to inspire your community to take action together with challenges in your Community.

In this article:

• What is a challenge?
• Create a challenge
• Create an evergreen challenge
• Edit your challenge
• Maximize your success

What is a community challenge?

A challenge in your Community is an activity, assignment, or check-in that your community can participate in together.

What is a Challenge Series?

A Challenge Series is a collection of challenges.

2 types of challenges

A one-time challenge is a single challenge (e.g., Night Photography Challenge, Social Media Detox Challenge).

A recurring challenge is a challenge that repeatedly occurs daily, weekly, or even monthly (e.g., 14-Day Networking Challenge).

Create a challenge

To create a challenge on the web:

• Open the Products tab.
• Select your Community.
• Click Go to your community.
• Then, click the "+" icon in the upper right-hand corner:

• Click Challenge or click the settings icon in the top-right corner of the left panel.
• Then, select Challenges.
• Choose the type of challenge you want to create and when you want it to start.

Enable Visible to all members if you want your members to view this scheduled challenge before its start date.

• Click Next.
• Click Create custom challenge.
  Note: There are also available templates that you can use.
• Fill out all the details of your challenge.
• Note: Click Advanced if you want to set a prize for your challenge or associate it with a specific circle.
• Click Next.
• Add a photo or a video that will describe the challenge.
• Then, click Save.

Create a challenge on mobile:

• On the mobile app and go to your community Home page.
• Scroll down and click the +New challenges tab.
• Choose the type of challenge you want to make and when you want it to start.

Enable Visible to all members if you want your members to view this scheduled challenge before its start date.

• Click Next.
• Click Create custom challenge.

Note: There are also available templates that you can use.

• Fill out all the details of your challenge.
• Click Advanced if you want to set a prize for your challenge or associate it with a specific circle.
• Click Next.
• Add a photo or a video that will describe the challenge.
• Click Save.

Create an evergreen challenge

Build an evergreen challenge to have a challenge that is always available to your community members. 

Simply create a challenge, then when you are prompted to select a start date, choose one in the past, and for an end date choose 1 day. Once that time period has passed, the challenge will become evergreen and your members will be able to complete it at any time.

How can I view who has participated in a challenge?

If you would like to see a list of who has completed a challenge, you can go to settings, open challenges, and download challenge entries.

You will have a CSV of all the members who have participated in the challenge. 

Update the details that include the ability to choose an access group

Edit your challenge

• Click Home.
• Go to Challenges.
• Locate the challenge that you want to edit.
• Hover over your challenge title to edit your challenge details or click the … icon to edit individual challenges in a series:

• Edit the details.
• Then, click Save to keep and apply your changes:

Maximize your success

Tips for maximizing the success of your challenges.

Create challenges that engage your community:

• Give your community members some quick advice on how to best start the challenge.
• Be simple and brief when describing the challenge. 
• Give your challenge specific numbers or measurements (“List 5 goals”, “Read ten pages”, “Walk 30 minutes”, etc.).
• Ask your community to upload photos, drop emojis, leave comments, or provide some other proof that the challenge has been completed.
• Encourage interaction and support between members.
• Attach guides, like worksheets or YouTube videos.
• Offer prizes.
• Don’t make the challenge too difficult. Typically, challenges shouldn’t take more than 5-10 minutes to be accomplished in one sitting.
• Provide a short video or cool photo along with the text of the challenge.
• Recommend that challenges are paired with things they already do. Like writing in their journal right after brushing their teeth.
• For multi-day challenges, gradually increase intensity. (Read for 5 minutes on Day 1, 10 minutes on Day 2, and 15 minutes on Day 3).
• Let them know the direct benefits of completing the challenge.
• Do the same challenges alongside your members if you can.

And that’s how you can create a challenge! Please vote below and let us know if you found this article helpful. We value your feedback. Thanks for being the best part of Kajabi!