Witness the Fitness Step Challenge

MoveSpring supports most major fitness trackers, including:

• Android Phones - Android 4.2 or above through the Google Fit app.
• Apple Watch 
• Fitbit - Zip, One, Flex, Charge, Charge HR, Surge, Alta, Blaze, MobileTracker app
• Garmin - vívofit, vívofit 2, vívosmart, vivosmart HR, vívoactive, vivokí, **
• Google Fit (Android, Pebble, Xiaomi)
• IPhone 5s and above - Apple Health App (Polar, Pebble, Xiaomi, and more)
• Jawbone - UP, UP24, UP Move, UP2, UP3, UP4
• Misfit - Flash Cyclist, Flash, Link, Ray, Shine, Shine2, Speedo Shine, Swarovski Activity Crystal
• Withings - Pulse, Pulse O2, Activité Pop, Activité, Activité Steel

If you do not have a phone or a fitness tracker, we will provide a pedometer at no cost. Contact Laurelyn Irving at lirving@umaryland.edu for details.

Your data automatically becomes available to MoveSpring after you sync your device, but we can't pull data directly from your device so you have to sync it!

To sync, open up your device app on your phone. We recommend syncing several times a day to ensure your steps are counted for each challenge. When you next open the MoveSpring app your steps will be fetched.  

There is also a 72-hour grace period that allows players to sync after each day in a challenge.

If you do not see your activity after several sync attempts, or you forgot to sync for over 36 hours, please reach out to MoveSpring support for assistance by selecting the help icon on the bottom right of the screen (web) or by navigating to Settings in the app, and selecting 'Message Support' at the bottom of the screen.

If you use a pedometer, don’t have a device, or your current wearable doesn’t integrate with MoveSpring, you can manually add your activity to join in on the fun. 

Currently you can edit the previous 5 days of data. You must enter each day's data individually. Do not add in sums of step or distance data over a period of time. Grace period rules always apply.  Once a challenge group moves to the completed tab, your manually added steps will not be pulled into the challenge.  

Follow the steps below to manually enter your steps into MoveSpring:

    1. Login or Sign up for MoveSpring via our app (App Store or Google Play) or the web.

•         If you are signing up for the first time, be sure to enter UMBSON918 for the organizational code.
•         If you already have an account: Click here or navigate to the Profile settings in the mobile app

    2. Select Manual Entry from device options

    3. From the dashboard select the Edit icon in the top right hand corner.

    4. Manually add your steps, distance and active minutes for today.

    5. To enter previous day’s data select ‘Manually edit previous activity’

    6. Enter your previous day’s step, distance and activity data.

    7. Save!

Whether you've forgotten your device at home or it's died at the office, there's no reason you should have to miss out on your activity. When you're switching back and forth between a wearable device and manual entry, there are a couple of things to keep in mind. 

1. The MoveSpring platform does not combine your activity count between devices. What this means is that when you switch to manual entry you'll have to add your two totals together and write the combined number into the manual entry field before saving.
   
   
2. MoveSpring will always keep your higher number of activity. Say you have 5,000 steps synced into your challenge group and gain an additional 1,000 steps outside of what's tracked on that specific device. The next step would be to switch to manual entry to enter in 6,000 steps. Since MoveSpring always keeps the higher number if you're combining steps from two devices in one day what we suggest is doing this once a day the morning after the day is complete. So you have total step counts combined for your devices and the most accurate number in the challenge. You'll just switch to manual entry and conclude your steps for the previous day and then switch back to your device to do the same the next day.

You can convert your exercise minutes into steps and then manually add them to the MoveSpring app (see: Can I manually enter my steps?) Simply multiply the number of minutes you participated in the activity by the number of steps indicated in the chart below.

Sources: America on the Move; Healthy Steps to Albany; Concordia Plan Services; MoveSpring.

You can communicate with your fellow challenge participants by using the chat in MoveSpring.

In the app, click on ‘Chat’ at the bottom of the screen. On web, select ‘Chat’ from the upper right next to your profile image. Select your team name to open the chat with only your teammates. Select the overall challenge name to chat with all members of the challenge group on all teams.

Use the chat to encourage your group, share photos and experienced throughout the challenge, and ask questions.  

This chat function is not MoveSpring's support chat. To contact MoveSpring support, go to your settings and select the green button reading ‘Message Support’ 

We understand the need and desire to keep sensitive information both private and secure. Below are helpful links to both the UMSON and MoveSpring privacy policies, and general terms and conditions:

UMSON

Privacy Policy

MoveSpring

Privacy Policy
Terms and Conditions

For technical questions or troubleshooting for MoveSpring, please reach out to the MoveSpring support center from the MoveSpring app. Go to ‘Profile’ and click on the gear icon in the upper right to locate your settings. Scroll to the bottom, and select ‘Message Support.’

For contest questions (registration, rules, prizes, etc.), please Laurelyn Irving at lirving@umaryland.edu.