We’ve been busy adding some big new features to Moki Challenges, and we’re really excited to finally get them into schools. Alongside Steps and Active Minutes, you can now create Lap and Race Challenges — turning your playground, field or sports hall into a live physical activity challenge.
Set up a course, grab some Moki Bands and get moving. No screens, no stopwatches and hardly any setup.
Turn your playground into a lap challenge
This is probably our favourite new feature. Set up a course around your playground, field or sports hall, tell Moki how long a lap is and start the activity. Children complete a lap, tap their Moki Band on the Reader and their distance is added to the live leaderboard. Move. Tap. Repeat. You could challenge children to complete a mile, see how far a class can travel in 20 minutes, run a house competition or let children work towards bigger milestones over time. We wanted it to be incredibly simple for teachers to set up, but exciting enough that children want to keep coming back for another lap.
Ready? Tap. Go!
We’ve added Race Challenges too. A child taps their Moki Band to start, completes your course and taps again at the finish. Moki records their time and adds the attempt to the leaderboard, ready for them to go again and try to beat it. A few cones on the playground can suddenly become a sprint course, obstacle course, shuttle challenge or mini cross-country route. No stopwatches, no writing down names and times, and no phones or smartwatches. Just tap and go.
That means there are now four ways to create a Moki Challenge: Steps, Active Minutes, Laps and Race. Challenges can involve individuals, classes, year groups or teams, so they can be anything from a quick PE activity to a whole-school physical activity challenge.
But this is the bit we really like…
The leaderboard is fun, but Moki can also answer a much more interesting question: did your challenge actually get children more active? Run a lap challenge at lunchtime and afterwards you can look at the activity data and see what happened. Did activity spike? Did children move more than they normally would? Did a simple change to the playground make a measurable difference?
That’s really what Moki has always been about for us. Not collecting data for the sake of collecting data, but helping schools understand physical activity and then do something with it.
Give it a go
If you already have Moki, the new Challenges are ready to try. Grab a few cones, mark out a simple course in the playground and create a Lap or Race Challenge. Run it with a class, watch the leaderboard come alive and then take a look at your activity data afterwards.
We built this because we think Moki should do more than tell you how active children are.
It should help you get them moving.