1. Challenge How-To Guide

2. To Get Started… You will receive an email from the Roosevelt Institute explaining a new challenge. This email will also contain a link to a Google Form to communicate your interest in a specific Loft challenge. Roosevelt will create a studio page on Loft for the specific challenge.

3. To Get Started… The Roosevelt Institute will then create project teams based on the Google Form response and invite those members to their individual project team pages, which the Roosevelt Institute will have created. Roosevelt Institute will invite the individual project teams to the challenge studio page.

4. The link will take you to the Activity stream of the Studio page. Here, you can see the studio, who is in it, see any activity that the group is engaging in, and follow the studio.

5. First, make sure you are signed in to your Loft profile. You can see the profile you are working in at the upper right-hand corner of the page.

6. Once you have successfully logged in, go ahead and press the “follow” button under the challenge header. This allows you to receive email notifications about group progress, and engage with the team working on the challenge.

7. Next, press the star in the upper right-hand corner of the studio header. This adds the studio to your favorites.

8. Adding a studio to your favorites allows for you to have quicker access to the challenge page in the future. If you roll over the “community” tab, it will now appear in your list of studios.

9. Now click the “challenges” Tab, located below the “people” and “projects” tabs

10. Here you can take a look at the challenges that are available within the studio, and decide which ones to accept. We are looking into the “Food Insecurity in Northern Illinois” Challenge in this example.

11. On this page you can read more about the Challenge, and decide if it is one that peaks your interest. It will state whether or not the challenge is available, the deadline, and give a brief description of what needs to be done.

12. Press “Accept Challenge” in the upper right-hand corner of the page, and you’re done! Now you can work on the challenge, submit edits for review, and receive feedback on your work.