Post an idea
How to add an idea to a challenge.
Idea options
Identify, describe, and enhance ideas.
Of the Ideas options, only Title and Description are required. Other options may be required as defined by the challenge settings. Not all options are available to every idea; administrators can include or hide options are necessary.
- Additional files
- Additional files support your idea. You can add Add additional images You can also add files to support your idea, for example, an Excel spreadsheet, PDF, etc.
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Images to be presented on the idea's page as a carousel view.
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Videos play below the idea description without downloading them or leaving the page.
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Raw files to download, such as spreadsheets or PDFs.
You can add any of these file types:
Class Max size File type Image 40 MB gif, jpeg, png, or pdf Video 300 MB mp4, 3gp, mov, avi, wmv, flv, mpeg, mpg, mp3, or wav Raw 100 MB doc, docx, odt, ppt, pptx, xls, csv, zip, rar, text, or rtf -
- Authoring method
- Whether the idea is authored by one, or multiple authors.
Author You are the sole author of this idea. Author with co-authors You are jointly authoring this idea with other users. See Post an idea with other users for more information. - Challenge
- The challenge the idea belongs to. The list of available challenges is in the panel on the left-side of the Post an Idea form. The form options that appear on the right depend on the settings of the selected challenge. Switching the challenge after you have entered some values in the options may discard some or all of the changes you made.
- Description
- (required) Tells people about your idea. This description appears on your idea's page and with your idea throughout the community. Read the instructions in the challenge brief carefully to understand what the challenge is looking for.
- Image (featured)
- The featured image appears on your idea's page and with your idea throughout the community. To add an image, either:
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Drag an image from your computer onto the Attach Image box.
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Click Add Image and select the image on your computer.
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- Question
- Some challenges ask — may even require — you to answer a question about your idea.
- Tag users
- Notify up to 10 other users about your idea or comment, or to credit them with helping to develop the idea.
- Theme
- Challenge subcategory. When themes are available, you may post the idea into the challenge or into a theme in the challenge.
- Title
- (required) The title identifies your post. Titles work best when they are succinct and capture the main point of the idea.
When writing the title, Ideas checks it against those already posted across all visible challenges. If your title has similar words to another idea, you'll see a list of Possibly related posts. Move the pointer over a listing and click Preview to open the listed idea in another browser tab/window.
- Tags
- Tags are keywords that help users to find your idea when they are searching for particular subjects. Enter any keywords or phrases and separate them by a comma to add them as a tag. You can add up to 10 tags to your idea.