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Challenge a colleague

Challenge a colleague when you’d both like to check what you know, like before a customer call. You each answer the same cards alone, then see each other’s answers. See challenges for the idea.

Before you start

Section titled “Before you start”
Who can
Anyone can challenge anyone else in the organisation.
You need
Nothing new. A challenge uses cards that already exist, from your tracks, regions of the Landscape or single spots.
The pictures
Ana Ruiz at ACME, the company in the docs’ pictures, challenging Tom Weber, a sales engineer, on the spot Approver.

Steps

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  1. Open what you want to challenge on. For one spot, click List on the Academy, then the spot’s page. That’s Approver. You can also start from a track’s page, a region on the map, or Challenges in the menu.

    Open the Academy’s List (opens Emargen in a new tab)

  2. Click Challenge.

    The spot Approver, with Practise this spot and Challenge on its card.The spot Approver, with Practise this spot and Challenge on its card.
    1. Challenge.

  3. Challenge someone opens, with the spot already under Subject. Under Person, click a name beside Recent or Find a person. In the picture, Tom Weber is picked. Send challenge stays greyed until you’ve picked someone.

    Challenge someone: Person with Tom Weber picked; Subject with the chip Approver and Add; 3 cards to draw from; Number of cards with 5 chosen; Cancel and Send challenge.Challenge someone: Person with Tom Weber picked; Subject with the chip Approver and Add; 3 cards to draw from; Number of cards with 5 chosen; Cancel and Send challenge.
    1. Who you challenge.
    2. What it’s on. The × on the chip takes it off.
    3. Add, for more.
    4. Number of cards.
    5. Send challenge.

  4. To challenge on more, click Add and type a few words, or choose from Your tracks, Regions and Spots. Each shows how many spots and cards it holds.

    Add open in Challenge someone: a Find a track, a region or a spot box, then Your tracks, Regions and Spots, each line with its spots and cards.Add open in Challenge someone: a Find a track, a region or a spot box, then Your tracks, Regions and Spots, each line with its spots and cards.

  5. Under Number of cards, choose 5, 10 or 20. When what you picked holds fewer cards, the challenge has fewer: Approver alone gives three.

  6. Click Send challenge. The challenge opens, with its first card for you.

  7. Answer each card. Choose or type your answer, then click Check. You see Right, Partly right or Not quite, and what the Landscape says about the spot. A written answer also shows how many of its points you made. Click Next for the next card, and Finish on the last. A challenge doesn’t ask how sure you are, and doesn’t change your practice.

What you get

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  • Your colleague gets a task in their Inbox. Click Take to open their challenges, with yours first. In the picture, someone in support at ACME has a challenge a colleague sent them. They’ve answered none of its four cards, and the sender has finished.
Ines's challenges: Access request and Approver, Ana Ruiz, 0 of 4, Finished, 12 Oct 2026.Ines's challenges: Access request and Approver, Ana Ruiz, 0 of 4, Finished, 12 Oct 2026.
  • They answer on their own, a card at a time.
Ines's first card in Ana's challenge: Access request, Choose one, 1 of 4, Who grants or turns down an access request?, An approver chosen, and Check.Ines's first card in Ana's challenge: Access request, Choose one, 1 of 4, Who grants or turns down an access request?, An approver chosen, and Check.
  1. Their answer.
  2. Check.
  • Whoever finishes first hears in their Inbox when the other finishes. Then each of you sees, on the challenge, every card with both answers. In the picture, a sales engineer’s challenge to a colleague, with both their answers.
Each card with both answers: Single sign-on, Entra ID, notifier and identity-service, with your answer and Tom's, each marked Right or Not quite.Each card with both answers: Single sign-on, Entra ID, notifier and identity-service, with your answer and Tom's, each marked Right or Not quite.
  • Once you’ve finished, click Save as a track to make a track of the challenge’s spots. It opens. On a challenge you have kept, the button reads Open the track instead. In the picture, the sender can still save the track. Their colleague has kept it already.
Tom's view of his challenge to Ana: You · finished, 4 of 5 right, Ana Ruiz · finished, and Save as a track.Tom's view of his challenge to Ana: You · finished, 4 of 5 right, Ana Ruiz · finished, and Save as a track.
  1. Save as a track.

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