Pathways are dynamic, structured learning journeys guiding users through a curated sequence of content and activities. Functioning as a clear, progressive roadmap, a pathway enables learners to achieve specific outcomes, fulfil compliance, and systematically develop new Skills and competencies. Pathways incorporate various content types, assessments, and interactive tasks, which fosters a comprehensive and measurable approach to professional development.
By following a pathway, individuals gain a personalised, engaging experience, easily tracking their progress toward a larger objective. Pathways incorporate various content types, assessments, and interactive tasks (fostering a comprehensive, measurable approach to development) and support diverse global teams through manual translation of titles and descriptions in Thrive.
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Pathways that do not contain content modules are not displayed to users or included in search results, as content is required to complete the learning journey. A content item can only appear once in a single pathway. However, the same content can be reused across multiple different pathways.
Creating a Pathway
In the Thrive menu, go to Create > Pathway.
Enter a Title of your pathway and optional description.
Click Create Pathway.
Select a thumbnail — upload a custom image or choose from the AI-generated suggestions.
Under Define your path, click + Add Another Section.
Click + Add Content or + Add task to add the content required to complete the section.
If the attached task requires learners to provide evidence of manager approval for completion, select Evidence required or Manager approval required.
To add more sections, click + Add Another Section.
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Each section must contain at least one piece of content before the Pathway can be published.
(Optional) Tagging Skills and Topics
Tag your Pathway with skills and topics to improve discoverability. Learners working towards a tagged skill will be more likely to see it, and topic tags make it appear in relevant sections on the homepage.
(Optional) Visibility, Sharing, and Advanced Settings
Visibility and sharing: Share with specific users or audiences, restrict visibility, allow resharing, and optionally notify users with a message.
Advanced settings: Choose how completions are handled (recent, historical, or none), restrict section progression, and enable skill boosting to count the Pathway towards a learner's skill progress
Publishing Your Pathway
Click Post to publish immediately, or use the dropdown arrow to Schedule for release, Save draft, or Discard.
Once published, learners can see their progress at a glance, navigate between sections, and track completion across all content items in the Pathway.
Updating and Re-Completion
When a new content module is added to a Pathway, Thrive tracks these changes by immediately modifying the user's completion percentage in the relevant Pathway. This percentage drops below 100% to reflect the newly introduced, uncompleted items. The original "Complete" status is maintained to preserve the user's initial achievement record, as Pathways are based on the time of assignment and their completion timeline.
While the status remains "Complete," the percentage tracking allows administrators to identify users who have completed the bulk of the content but are partially complete due to the update. A user can generate a new completion record by finishing the new content five months after their previous completion.