Goals and Challenges - How To Add Steps, Distance and Minutes Manually Into the Engage App

Overview

Learn how to add steps, distance, and minutes to your Engage account data with manual activity entry. Information in this article is useful to clients and members who are participating in challenges.

About Manual Activity Entry

Manual activity entry allows you to add activities with optional accompanying steps, distance, and active minutes totals into your Engage account. Data added through manual activity entry will be combined with any device data synced for the day.

Please note: It is up to your challenge admin to enable manual activity entry. If you do not see the option to add activity, it is not allowed for your challenge.

Reasons To Use Manual Activity Entry

• Don’t have a device, or your current device/pedometer doesn’t integrate with Engage? You can use manual activity entry to add your data to your account to join in on the fun!
• Forget to wear your fitness tracker during a workout? You can use manual activity entry to add in your workout data while continuing to sync data from your connected device.

Things To Keep in Mind

• Entries can be logged for up to 7 days (the current day and the previous 6 days). Please make sure you enter totals regularly. We recommend entering totals once a day to maintain the most up-to-date stats in your challenge.
• Each entry should be logged individually on the specific day it was performed. Do not add in data for multiple days under one entry. This will throw off challenge stats.
• Grace period rules always apply. Once a challenge ends, all scoring is final and challenge stats can no longer be updated. Any entries added or removed after your challenge ends will save to your Engage account but will not update in your challenge.

• Manual activity entries are added to any device data synced for the day. Syncing from your device will not be interrupted if you add a manual activity entry during the day, but totals between your device and Engage will no longer match due to the additional data logged in Engage.

   

Adding Manual Activities to the Engage App

Follow the steps below to add manual activities:

1. From your dashboard, select the Add activity + button in the daily activity card.
2. Select the Manual activity button or select a recent manual activity to log.
3. Enter your activity name, optional associated steps, distance, and/or active minutes totals, and select the corresponding date. By default, the date will be set to today.
4. Select Save activity to save your entry to your account.
5. Once your activity has been added, you’ll see a confirmation at the top of your screen confirming that your activity has been saved!

Deleting Manual Activities From the Engage App

Follow the steps below to delete manual activities: 

1. To see a full list of your previously logged activities, select View added activities from the Your Activity section of the dashboard.

2. Select a manual activity entry to view more details. To delete a manual activity from here, select the delete icon as shown below:

   

3. Select Yes, delete to confirm you want to delete the activity.