In the ever-evolving landscape of community building, Nas.io stands as a beacon of innovation, constantly striving to provide cutting-edge tools for community managers (CMs) to foster engagement and growth within their communities. Today, we're thrilled to unveil our latest feature: Challenges.
Challenges are more than just tasks or activities; they're dynamic opportunities for CMs to ignite excitement, encourage participation, and cultivate a sense of camaraderie among their community members. With Challenges, CMs can take their community engagement to new heights by offering structured and rewarding experiences tailored to their unique audience.
What sets Nas.io apart from others?
It is our unwavering commitment to empowering CMs with the tools they need to succeed. Challenges on Nas.io are designed to seamlessly integrate into existing community structures, allowing CMs to effortlessly create, manage, and track progress within their challenges.
Through Challenges, CMs can:
1. Foster Community Connection: Challenges spark meaningful interactions among community members. Whether it's a fitness challenge, book reading marathon, or mindfulness journey, participants connect, support each other, and celebrate together.
2. Drive Engagement: Challenges make community activities fun by turning them into games. This encourages members to actively participate and stay involved in the community's goals, earning rewards along the way.
3. Promote Accountability: CMs can track participants' progress and offer feedback and encouragement, fostering a sense of responsibility and commitment among members.
4. Encourage Growth: Challenges aren't just about finishing tasks; they're about personal growth. CMs can create challenges that align with their community's values, offering opportunities for learning, exploration, and development.
Setting Up Challenges with Ease
Login to your Nas.io portal as a manager.
Select Challenges [new]
Click on Create Challenge on the top right side of the page
For the initial information, you would need to fill out the following:
Name (Name of the challenge)
Product Image
Recommended size: 1920x1080 (16:9) and less than 10MB
Supported Files: png, jpg, jpeg
Pricing (Free/Paid)
Add Discount (If it is a paid challenge)
Once you filled out the relevant information to create your challenge, click on Create Challenge at the bottom of the page.
You will be redirected to this page where you will be asked to:
Set up schedule & checkpoints
Configure Sales Page
Connect a Group chat (optional)
In setting up a schedule & checkpoint dates, you will be required to fill out this page.
You need to fill out the following:
Start & End date/time of the challenge
You can also select how long will the challenge run using the suggested duration or customise it and the start and end date coverage will adjust accordingly.
Checkpoints for the challenge
It's up to you if you would like a daily, weekly, or customised checkpoint for your challenge.
For customised checkpoint, you would need to enter the duration of the checkpoints. In this case, we selected 2 days for each checkpoint and the system will automatically create 3 checkpoints in total for you since the challenge we set is for 7 days.
You can customise each checkpoint depending on the challenge you are creating. In editing each checkpoints you have the option to set the following:
Add Cover Video
Title (Title name of the checkpoint)
Descriptions (if you would like to add more written description and requirements for your checkpoint, you can add it here)
Collect Submission (Participants will have to fill up the form to complete the checkpoint)
For each checkpoint, make sure to hit save. You should see this notification at the bottom of the screen once it is successfully saved:
Toggle Step-by-step unlocking
By toggling this ON, participants of the Challenge will only unlock the next checkpoint once they are done with the previous checkpoints.
E.g. They would need to finish checkpoint 1 before they can see what is inside checkpoint 2
If this is not toggled ON, then the participants can see all other checkpoints available in the challenge.
Before you publish, it is best to click on the gear icon to add more information about your challenge.
Things you can add are as follows:
Configure your sales page. This includes the following:
Review the Challenge details such as follows:
Overview:
Pricing & Access
Add Challenge Chat group (Optional)
More Options (Optional)
For more options tab, you can set up the following:
Don't forget to click on save at the bottom of the page, once you are done adding information about your challenge.
Once done reviewing the details you have set up for your Challenge, click on Publish. You will be directed to this pop-up page. It will show you options to share your challenge whether it is via social media or by sharing the Challenge Public Page Link or letting them go directly to the checkout link:
Voila! Congratulations on setting up your Challenge Product on Nas.io 🥳
Managing Challenge Participants
Currently, members who will participate in your Challenge will need to access it via Nas.io app.
In the Participants tab, you should see the following details:
# of Participants
Search for a participant using their name or email address
Export the list of participants
Add a participant to the challenge
Send them a message via Magic Reach
You may also filter the participants, to show those who completed a certain checkpoint.
E.g.
Depending on how many checkpoints you have set for your Challenge, you will see the progress of the participants in the Participants tab.
To know more about the participant's experience with Challenges, you may click on this link for reference.
The goal of a Community Challenge typically revolves around motivating participants to actively engage, accomplish tasks, or reach specific milestones within a defined timeframe. These challenges aim to foster growth, encourage participation, promote community interaction, or achieve certain objectives set by the organizers.
