Create Your First Community Challenge

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

In this article:

• What is a challenge?
• Create a challenge
• Review challenge entries
• 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 Community.
• Then, click the "+" icon in the upper right corner and select Challenge.
• Choose the type of challenge you want to create (one-time or recurring), the timeframe for the challenge, and the series (if applicable). Toggle on Visible to all members if you want your members to see the challenge before its start date.
• Click Next.
• Either choose a template or click Create custom challenge.
• Add a Title and Description for your challenge and select which Access Group will have access to it. (Note: Click Advanced if you want to set a prize for your challenge). 
• Click Next.
• Add a photo or a video to the challenge, and click Save:

To create a challenge on mobile:

• Open the mobile app and click the Challenges tab.
• Scroll down and click +New challenge:

• Choose the type of challenge you want to create (one-time or recurring), the timeframe for the challenge, and the series (if applicable). Toggle on Visible to all members if you want your members to see the challenge before its start date.
• Click Next.
• Either choose a template or click Create custom challenge.
• Add a Title and Description for your challenge and select which Access Group will have access to it. (Note: Click Advanced if you want to set a prize for your challenge). 
• Click Next.
• Add a photo or a video to the challenge, and click Save.

Review challenge entries

New challenge entries can be viewed by clicking the “new entries” link near the top of the Challenges page:

Click the checkmark button next to a challenge entry to mark it as read, or click the “Mark all as read” button to mark all unread entries as read:

Read challenge entries will automatically be hidden from the Challenges page. To see everyone who has completed a challenge, go to Settings, open Challenges, and click the link to the right of the challenge to download a CSV of all challenge participants:

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.

Edit your challenge

• Go to Challenges.
• Locate the challenge that you want to edit.
• Click the … icon and select Edit:

• Edit the details as desired.
• 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 (i.e. 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!