Walker Tracker for Education
Keeping educators, administrators, and students connected and active.
Walker Tracker gets an “A+” for step challenge and wellness solutions that work for students or faculty, connect multiple campuses and departments, build camaraderie, and drive healthy results.
Walker Tracker Makes the Grade
Higher education programs consistently achieve results above & beyond Walker Tracker’s already-excellent statistics in attrition, participation, engagement, and growth.
How Walker Tracker Can Boost Wellness Programs for School Districts
Greek philosophers Socrates and Plato believed that intellectual training and physical activity were both valuable parts of a holistic education. Today, integrating the two is simple when you empower students and faculty at your institution to build a well-rounded lifestyle with school or university wellness programs and a tool like Walker Tracker.
Walker Tracker is an app for running exercise and wellness campaigns with many participants – no matter what device or fitness tracking app they use. The app acts as an all-in-one social facilitator, progress tracker, and data aggregator to display meaningful information at the members’ fingertips.
Social Facilitator
Walker Tracker is a social facilitator here to power up your student and school staff wellness programs. With motivating and fun social tools, we connect participants with their peers and colleagues to drive engagement and accountability. The app has an Activity Converter that transforms all your favorites activities, movements, and exercises into steps, letting members receive credit toward their step goal for actions like bowling, hiking, or yoga.
The platform also has a points system. Leveraging friendly competition to help participants stay motivated, members enjoy the fun of racing to meet their goals. It’s a fair, balanced scoring system that rewards for effort and consistency rather than the difficulty of an activity, keeping longtime athletes and new exercisers on the same level.
Members can also connect using in-app user-created challenges, discussion boards, friends, and teams plus comment on each others posts along the way.
Progress Tracker
Walker Tracker Wellness Suite is a secure platform to record and monitor wellness information. The app can track everything from psychological factors like mood and mindfulness minutes to daily habits like diet and water intake. These features take your school district’s wellness program to new heights by promoting health at every level.
Data Aggregator
Walker Tracker gathers secure progress reports and presents the information to your wellness facilitators for ease of use. Data aggregation for a university-wide step challenge — even one including thousands of dispersed students and faculty — has never been easier.
Walker Tracker in Action: 40,000-Employee Wellness Program
Britta Trepp was a trainer for Olympic athletes before she became the manager of school employee wellness programs at the University of Utah. Britta manages wellness for two separate HR departments and over 40,000 employees.
The University of Utah needed the process of wellness tracking to be convenient and intuitive for thousands of employees. Britta chose Walker Tracker because of its user-friendly interface and easy compatibility with the university’s single sign-on system.
Ultimately, Walker Tracker became a fun source of engagement for 48,000 employees, with a 95.2% rate of engagement. Now, Britta can oversee the progress of the entire university from a single platform and track user-created challenges across many accounts.
Why Is Group Wellness Participation Successful?
People naturally desire community, and wellness activities are no exception. The university environment already has friendships built around extracurricular activities and sporting events.
Walker Tracker can help you use this positive energy to encourage people to reach their wellness goals. Studies show that the more participants who join a wellness program, the greater the reduction of health risks.
Walker Tracker balances accountability, friendly competition, and group encouragement to create school wellness programs that help students and faculty achieve a culture of holistic wellness at their institution.
Higher education programs consistently achieve results above & beyond Walker Tracker’s already-excellent statistics in attrition, participation, engagement, and growth.
challenge – university health
GatorCare (UF Health)
UF Health formed GatorCare in 2013 with a goal of improving the “quality of life of those we serve through affordable health benefits and impactful wellness solutions.”
GatorCare has been working with Walker Tracker since 2018. They have over 2,600 enrolled participants. In their last challenge, participants trekked the equivalent of eight times around the Earth (in under a month)!
challenge – remote education
University of California
The University of California-San Diego pulled hundreds of participants across their medical system, educational system, and global supporters to run a fundraiser of epic proportions.
What started as an intra-office challenge with a $1,000 pool has now raised over $100,000 over only two years to support cancer research!
challenge – students and campus wellness
University of Utah
Walker Tracker supports the full annual wellness initiative at one of the nation’s largest university systems by employee count.
See how one admin can run an entire wellness protocol that covers over 40,000 lives. Walker Tracker’s simple administrative tools let Utah’s admins run their own departmental challenges, log member-submitted health metrics, and encourage member-created challenges. The results are over 2 challenges per week in an organizaiton with just a few admins.
Wellness Data, Delivered.
View participation, engagement & growth. Drive healthy activity and team building among faculty, students, and staff.
Tell Your Story
Walker Tracker’s virtual maps & mobile apps provide a gamified way to collect and display progress. Map milestones share engaging info about your institution or organization.
Tell Your Story
Walker Tracker’s virtual maps & mobile apps provide a gamified way to collect and display progress. Map milestones share engaging info about your institution or organization.
Privacy First
Your members’ privacy is protected from start to finish. We protect data, comprehensively delete data upon completion, and are compliant with privacy standards.
Fun, Healthy Motivation
Make fitness fun with a pacer rabbit, virtual maps, social features, informative milestones, and engaging mobile apps that are simple for all ages, devices, and technical abilities.
Fun, Healthy Motivation
Make fitness fun with pacer rabbits, virtual maps, social features, informative milestones, and engaging mobile apps that are simple for all ages, devices, and technical abilities.
Include Everyone
Walker Tracker’s activity converter, device syncing, and end-user support ensure that everyone can join the challenge regardless of age, ability level, body type, or fitness level.
I’ve never dealt with the administrative side, it’s something I’ve never done. Graham was super helpful and he showed me how to be the administrator.
Without Walker Tracker, we wouldn’t have had that connection to people across the country. Before, we were tallying by hand.
We couldn’t have had so many people participate without Walker Tracker.
I wanted something that looked fun, was fun to play with, and integrated with our single sign-on system.
What we’ve been most surprised with is how many individuals and groups have wanted to run challenges. People care most about the folks in their work group. They care about their department, their office, and their friends. That’s why Walker Tracker is so great. Those people have the ability to log on, try things out, and create their own challenges.
The Walker Tracker Difference: Activity and Wellness Challenges
Walker Tracker is more than just a step challenge platform. Our innovative Activity Converter converts hundreds of activities into steps – including wheelchair mobility and rock climbing, allowing everyone of all ability levels and body types to participate in a challenge. It even allows people without a device to enter their activity manually.
Our Wellness Suite lets members track several wellness elements like sleep, mood, diet, water intake, heart rate, mindfulness minutes, and more. Wellness tracking helps members to stay well by spotting symptoms and providing a full picture of their physical and mental wellbeing.
Walker Tracker also provides you with communication tools like surveys, post-challenge questionnaires, custom emails, in-app messages, push notifications and more. Plus, Walker Tracker’s appealing virtual maps are based on real world locations. Proven to be more engaging than charts, these virtual maps feature fun elements like custom pacer icons, milestone markers, and more.
Case Study: University of Utah Wellness
Step Challenge Examples
University of Utah Case Study
University of Utah engages nearly 50,000 members across 117 different challenges administered by staff, faculty, and wellness administrators. Walker Tracker’s enterprise program delivers fun challenges in a safe, secure, private, and scalable environment. Click the icon on the left for the free full report.
Click the image on the left for details on an enterprise-class customer that saw fantastic results from implementing Walker Tracker!
Start your own step challenge
Looking for a step challenge for your organization? Look no further! We have options for every organization size and at price points for any budget.
Fill out the form below to receive a packet with program details, feature lists, pricing, and more. Also, a member of our team will personally reach out to you to answer further questions and to get you set up with Walker Tracker.
We look forward to creating a challenge that builds workforce health & happiness!
