Competitions are an essential part of Walker Tracker. 

Here are a couple of things to think about as you create competitions:

1) Only the people registered in your program can 'see' each other. You're private from the rest of the internet. In most cases you'll want to make a 'public' competition. A public competition means that everyone in your program will be able to view the competition. In a private competition, only people explicitly invited to the competition will be able to see that it exists.

2) Setting a competition to: Open, allows any of the people in your program to join that competition 

Here's how I would go about creating the first competition. We're going to go through the steps of creating a public, open competition, and then posting a message to the site so that all employees will see and be able to join the competition.

1) Under the competition dropdown, choose 'Create a competition'

2) Define the challenge - make sure to set it Public & Open (see picture). In this one, we're challenging everyone to walk 9,000 steps or more per day (on average) over the course of 7 days.

3) Once you've created the competition, click on 'View this competition'.

From the location bar in your browser, grab the link to the competition and copy it.

* The next steps are optional for program administrators

4) Now, click on the link to enter your administration panel.

5) Click on 'Administer Users' -> Notices. Notices are a powerful messaging system. You can send a notice to one user, or all users on your site. You can have notices 'expire' (they disappear) after a certain amount of time, a handy feature if you're advertising for a competition that starts on a certain day.

6) Once you've written your notice and added it. Make sure that you scroll down to mark it as 'active' and update it. This allows you to turn notices on and off. 

When your members next log on (or register), they will see this yellow message at the top of the screen 

Good luck!