Managing challenges beyond the basics

Once you're comfortable creating a challenge, a few options help you run larger or multi-audience programs. This article assumes you're an Administrator (Level 4) working from Dashboard → Challenges.

Scheduling a challenge & teasing it before launch

Set a start date in the future to schedule your challenge. Before it opens, the platform automatically displays a countdown, with the challenge's cover visual shown blurred — a nice way to tease what's coming and build anticipation. Contributions are only accepted between the start and end dates; before the start date, users see the teaser but cannot submit.

Editing a challenge that is live or already closed

• To edit a live challenge, open it and use Edit (see Create and launch a challenge).
• To reopen a closed challenge, select it and append /edit to the URL in your browser's address bar — you can then reopen it and change its settings, including the end date.

Pro Tip: extending a challenge that just closed uses the same /edit  trick — reopen, push the end date, save.

Who can participate

Participation is limited to registered users of your platform — Braineet does not allow fully external (unregistered) people to submit to a challenge. To widen participation, invite the people you need (they receive an account) or use a dynamic Diffusion List based on an email domain, so matching colleagues are added automatically without inviting them one by one (see Diffusion list).

Running a challenge in several languages

Build your challenge form in one main language. An administrator can then set up automatic and/or manual translation so participants see the challenge in their own language (see Translation management). This is how large multilingual programs are run.

Giving your jury its own space

Jury members get access to a dedicated dashboard to administer and evaluate the challenge, separate from what candidates see. Candidates only interact with the public challenge; evaluators work from the jury dashboard.

Importing a large batch of submissions

Bulk-importing submissions into a challenge is not available self-service at this time. If you have a genuine need to import a batch of ideas, contact your CSM or [email protected] and the ITONICS team will assess it.