Library administrators and school staff can create a reading challenge that rewards badges for logging reading, in order to track and build reading habits.
Remember that we always recommend creating new challenges or duplicating existing ones to launch new challenges, and strongly counsel against editing over existing challenges. And don’t forget to save your work often!
- Log in to the admin view of your site.
- Go to Challenges and click the ”Create a Challenge” button in the top right corner of the screen.
- Select “Log Any Reading” as the way that participants earn badges, and then click “Next.”
- Note: You can also select and combine other badge types, like “Fill a Bingo Card,” ”Complete Non-Repeatable Activities,” and/or “Write Reviews.”
- On the next screen, click “Create My Own Challenge” to create your challenge from scratch or click a challenge template to load and modify.
- Customize all your setup details within the first “Challenge Setup” tab. Depending on your site type, use one of the following for more details about each setting available to you:
- Click the “Badges” tab so you can add and edit earnable badge types, badge time restrictions, and individual logging badges and goals, as well as add rewards and certificates to individual badges.
- Note: Ensure “Logging” is enabled as the earnable badge type.
- Add a registration badge by clicking “Add a Badge” under “Registration Badge,” select your badge image, and then set up any attached registration rewards.
- Schools can skip this step if they automatically enroll their students in a challenge.
- For a monthlong challenge, we recommend adding at least 10 logging badges in attainable increments that build on top of each other. To add your logging badges, follow the steps in this article.
- Next, click the “Tickets” tab to set up a set up a ticket drawing. This is optional; if you’re not using tickets, you can ignore this step! Otherwise, see this article to set up a ticket drawing.
- Lastly, click the “Completion Requirements” and select one of the following:
- “Require All Badges” if you want readers to earn all the badges in the challenge in order to complete it.
- “Require Specific Badges” if you want to select which badges readers must earn.
- “Require Some Badges” if you want to set a number of badges readers must earn, within which you can also pick specific badges.
- Note: If your challenge includes a completion badge, readers will be notified when they hit the completion requirements by earning the completion badge. If your challenge does not include a completion badge, then you and your staff will be able to track completions in Insights and Reports, but readers will not be notified of completing the challenge when they hit the completion requirements.
- Keep your challenge in draft mode while you’re finalizing and testing the details.
- Either click “Save” to keep editing your challenge or “Save and Exit” to go back to all your challenges.
- To publish, click the “Draft” dropdown, select “Published,” and then click “Save.”
Note: Once you save a challenge in a published state, it is live on your site!