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A challenge ties several quizzes together into one running competition with a single combined leaderboard. Instead of a separate board per quiz, points from every quiz add up, so you can run something like “Security Awareness 2026” as a month-long series and crown one overall winner. For how an individual quiz is scored, see Scoring & Leaderboards.

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⚡ The short version

  • A challenge is a set of quizzes that share one leaderboard.
  • Each quiz is scored out of 1000, and a player’s challenge total is the sum of their per-quiz scores.
  • Players are ranked by total points, so a late joiner is scored only on the quizzes they received and can’t leapfrog on a higher average.
  • The same quiz posted to multiple channels is answered once and counts everywhere.

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👥 For your team: how a challenge feels

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One leaderboard across many quizzes

A challenge is a set of quizzes that share a leaderboard. Each quiz is scored out of 1000, and your challenge total is simply the sum of your per-quiz scores. Do well across the series and you climb the combined board.

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Your “X / Y” and how ranking works

Your “X / Y” on a challenge shows how many of its quizzes have been delivered to you so far. Ranking is by your total points, not by percentage. Join late and you’re scored only on the quizzes you actually received; you can’t leapfrog people who completed more just by having a higher average. Everyone competes on points earned.

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You only answer each quiz once

The same quiz can be posted to several Slack channels, but it’s still one quiz. You’ll only ever be asked to answer it once, and that single answer counts toward the challenge no matter which channel you saw it in. If it shows up in two channels, opening either takes you to the same attempt. You can’t boost your score by answering the same quiz in multiple places.

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Speed bonus is the same across the whole challenge

Whether the speed bonus is on, and how long its window is, is decided once for the entire challenge. Every quiz behaves the same way, so the competition stays consistent.

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🛠️ For admins: running a challenge

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What a challenge groups

A challenge groups scheduled quizzes. Any quiz linked to the challenge becomes a member and its scores feed the combined board.
A quiz embedded in a track can’t join a challenge. It runs as part of its track. Challenges group standalone scheduled quizzes.
Membership comes from the quizzes themselves, so adding or removing a quiz is just linking or unlinking it. There’s no separate list to keep in sync.

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Setting one up

1

Create the challenge

Give it a clear name (e.g. “Security Awareness 2026”) and an optional description. It’s live as soon as you create it.
2

Choose leaderboard visibility

Leaderboard, Own rank, or Hidden. See the visibility table.
3

Decide on the speed bonus

On or off, and if on, the bonus window. This applies uniformly to every quiz in the challenge and overrides each quiz’s own speed setting, so the board stays coherent.
4

Add quizzes

Link your scheduled quizzes to the challenge. Each one is then scored out of 1000 and its scores roll into the total.
5

Set who can manage it

Only the challenge’s admin users can manage it and view aggregate results.
Question weighting stays on each quiz (Standard, Double, or Triple per question), while the speed bonus and visibility are set once on the challenge.

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How the combined leaderboard is calculated

  1. Each member quiz is scored and rescaled to /1000 for every player.
  2. A player’s challenge total is the sum of their per-quiz scores.
  3. Players are ranked by that total (absolute points, not percentage).
  4. Any manual adjustments are layered on top at the end (see the Adjustments section below).
Because the challenge speed setting is uniform across every quiz, the per-quiz scores all rescale to /1000 and add up cleanly.

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🔁 Deduplication (play once)

When the same quiz is scheduled to multiple channels, Doozy treats every copy as one logical quiz so nobody answers it (or gets reminded about it) twice:
  • To-dos collapse. Someone in three channels that all received the quiz sees one to-do, not three.
  • Opening any copy lands on the same attempt. A person answers the first copy they received. If that copy expires before they touch it, Doozy rolls them forward to the earliest copy still answerable. Once they’ve started a copy, they stay on it.
  • One shared score. That single answer feeds one shared per-quiz leaderboard, so it counts everywhere the quiz was posted.
Only repeated runs of the same quiz collapse this way. Different quizzes are always kept separate.

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⏸️ Lifecycle: pause, complete, archive

A challenge is active when created. Every other state is a cutoff: member quizzes stop delivering, new answers are rejected, and the leaderboard freezes so you can lock in final standings. The states differ in intent and presentation.
StateMeaningBoard
ActiveRunning.Live, updating.
PausedTemporarily stopped, meant to resume.Frozen (“⏸️ Paused, results frozen”).
CompletedFinished with final results, still shown.Frozen (”🏁 Challenge complete, final results”).
ArchivedFiled away and hidden from the main list.Frozen; can be deleted from here.
Allowed transitions:
From →ActivePausedCompletedArchivedDeleted
Activen/apausecompletearchive✗
Pausedresumen/acompletearchive✗
Completedreopen✗n/aarchive✗
Archived✗✗unarchiven/adelete
  • Pausing or archiving also pauses the member quizzes Doozy is running, so no new questions post after the cutoff. Resuming re-activates only the quizzes the challenge paused, never one you’d paused yourself.
  • Deleting keeps the data. Delete (only from Archived) removes the challenge and its cached board and unlinks the quizzes. The quizzes and all participation data survive.

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✏️ Adjustments

You can hand-edit a challenge leaderboard. Adjustments layer on top of the calculated scores at display time, so they show up right away and never disturb the underlying per-quiz results. Per-person, from the row’s ⋮ menu:
  • Adjust points: add or subtract points for that person, with an optional reason. Added on top of their score and uncapped; use a negative number to subtract. Their total shows a small badge so an adjusted score reads differently from an earned one.
  • Remove from board: drop someone’s row. Reversible; their data is kept, just hidden.
Board-level Manual adjustment:
  • Award points to any member, including someone who never played (a referral reward, say). They appear on the board as a new row with the awarded points. Use a negative number to subtract.
The Adjustments panel lists every change in one place: each point award with who made it, when, and why, plus an Undo for each (an undone entry stays visible, struck through, so the history is legible). Removed people are listed separately with a Restore button.
Adjusted points are added on top and are uncapped, so a total can exceed 1000 per quiz’s worth. That’s intentional, since a referral or bonus award isn’t a quiz score. The badge on the total flags it.

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🔢 Worked example

A 3-quiz challenge, speed bonus off, visibility set to Leaderboard. Riya joined after Quiz 1 had already gone out, so only Quizzes 2 and 3 were delivered to her. Marcus received all three.
PlayerQuiz 1Quiz 2Quiz 3DeliveredTotal
Marcus10008009003 / 32700
Riyan/a100010002 / 32000
Riya aced both quizzes she received, but she’s ranked on her 2000 total, not on a 100% average, so she sits behind Marcus’s 2700. A late joiner can’t leapfrog on percentage. Now an admin awards Riya +200 as a referral reward: 
Riya:  2000  +200 (referral)  =  2200   [+200]
Her total updates immediately with a “+200” badge, and the award appears in the Adjustments panel with an Undo.

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🏁 What challenge standings look like

🏁  Security Awareness 2026 standings

  1.  Marcus Bell        2700        ·  3 / 3
  2.  Riya Kapoor        2200 [+200] ·  2 / 3
  3.  Dana Okafor        1850        ·  3 / 3
  4.  Sam Rivera         1600        ·  2 / 3

  ⏸️  Paused, results frozen         (shown only when not active)

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❓ FAQ

No. A quiz embedded in a track runs as part of that track. Challenges group standalone scheduled quizzes.
No. It’s one logical quiz; each person answers once and that single result counts across every channel it appeared in.
No. Pausing stops the member quizzes and freezes the board. Any question window already open is also blocked from new submissions. Resume to pick back up.
No. Delete removes the challenge and its leaderboard and unlinks the quizzes. The quizzes and all answers are kept.
A manual adjustment (like a referral reward) is added on top of the calculated score and isn’t capped. The badge on their total flags it.
Adjustments apply at display time and boards refresh within a few seconds. Re-open the standings and it’ll be there.

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🔗 Related

Scoring & Leaderboards

How each quiz is scored, before challenges combine them

Schedule a quiz

Create the quizzes that go into a challenge

Quiz results

View participation, scores, and feedback

Quizzes overview

Everything quizzes can do