You can send out updates to your participants at any time via the News Posts section of your private admin area. These will appear on the challenge website and iPhone/Android app, and you can optionally send them via email and push notifications.
(If you prefer to use your own email communication system, your Big Team Challenge admin website includes the option to export users to a csv file, including each user’s registered email address for importing into your third party system.)
Open The "News Posts" Area of Your Admin Area
Your private admin area is located at [your challenge website]/admin (eg. yourcompany.bigteamchallenge.com/admin). You can log in with your email and password you chose when you first signed up.
Create a News Post
You'll see a list of any posts you've already sent and the "Create News Post" button. Click on that to get started.
Add Your Content
Each post is made up of three parts:
Title: This is used as the title of your challenge post as well as the subject of the optional email updates and push notifications. This should be a short overview of the content of this challenge update (e.g. "Week 1 Review" or "Selfie Competition").
Summary: This is only used in our iOS and Android apps and allows you to provide your participants with a short synopsis of the update before they tap to read the whole challenge update (e.g. "Great progress made this week. 250 miles and counting!" or "We're running a selfie competition. Submit yours for a chance to win!").
Body: This is the main content of your challenge update. It can be of any length and can contain new lines to separate paragraphs but can't contain HTML code or any attachments. (If you wish to send attachments to your participants, you can export their emails as a CSV file and import that into your own mailing software)
Allow Comments?
You can optionally allow your participants to comment on your News Post. This may make your challenge feel more social and engaging, but you may prefer to not allow your participants to upload their own messages/images. Read more about New Post Comments here.
You can turn comments on or off at any time for each News Post.
Publish or Schedule Your News Post
Select "Publish/Schedule" to move onto the next stage.
You can optionally choose to send your participants a notification about this News Post via email and/or mobile push to our app.
You can also choose who should receive these notifications: either all of your registered users or only users who have signed up to a team or expressed interest in the current challenge. This is useful when you're running your second challenge as some registered users may not wish to take part this time and will not want to receive notifications about this update.
Publish/Send Now or Schedule
Once you're all set, you can decide whether to publish the post now or to schedule it for the future. If you choose to schedule, you can choose the date and hour that the News Post will be published.
Changing A Scheduled News Post
If you've scheduled a News Post for a future date and wish to change it, you can edit the content or cancel it before the scheduled time. Just open the News Post in the admin area and make your required changes.
