How to set up a shared community goal

Community goals allow you to create a site-wide reading goal on your Beanstack site where all participating readers contribute to reaching your milestone. Our data shows that readers log twice as many reading minutes when their Beanstack site has a community goal.

How to set or edit your community goal
How to display your community goal on your landing page

How to set or edit your community goal

Take the following steps to set up a community goal for your site:

1. Log in to the admin view of your site.
2. On the homepage, click the “Update Goal” link on the right side of the goal. This takes you to the setup page for your community.
   1. You can also get here by going to Setup > Community Goal.
3. Set up the following for the goal you would like to reach:
   1. The goal type (Date range or Ongoing).
      • If you select a date range goal, you will also have the ability to set the start and end dates for your goal and select whether or not you would like to display the number of days remaining for your goal on your landing page.
      • If you add a date range to your goal, your statistics will appear on the start date. Anything logged before or after those dates does not count.
   2. The log type (e.g., Minutes or Books).
      • We recommend minutes—it's the most equitable log type among ages and abilities! 
4. Click "Save" or "Update" to apply the new goal to your site.

Note: Once updated, the displayed Community Goal may take up to two hours to sync with the date or quantity change made.

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How to display your community goal on your landing page

Take the following steps to display a community goal ticker on your landing page:

1. From the admin dashboard.
2. Navigate to Setup >  Landing Page > Landing Page Content.
3. Scroll down to Would you like to show your community goal? and select Yes.
4. Fill in the information for the Header, Subheader, Hashtag Header, and Hashtag. This copy appears alongside the goal on the landing page.
5. Populate the Post-goal Header and Post-goal Subheader to customize language that will update when you reach your community goal.
6. Scroll down to the bottom of the page and click "Save."

Note: If you are a school client, and you use SSO for your staff/students, they will most likely bypass the landing page altogether.

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