A pathway is a curated set of badges grouped into steps, designed to guide you through a topic, qualification, or skill set. This guide walks through finding a pathway, starting it, making progress, and what happens when you finish.
Important note: Liking a pathway is not the same as starting one. Tapping the heart icon saves the pathway to your Liked tab so you can come back to it later, but it does not track your progress. To take part and earn the badges, click Start. See Liking Content on Navigatr for more.
Starting a pathway
You can take part in any published pathway you have access to. Pathways live on the platform alongside individual badges, and starting one is a single click.
Where to find pathways
There are three common places to find a pathway:
The Discover page, where you can filter by topic, provider, or community.
A provider's or community's public page, in their pathways list.
A direct share link from a colleague, friend, or community admin.
How to start
Log in to your Navigatr account.
Navigate to the page of the pathway you want to take part in.
Click Start.
Making progress
Each pathway is broken into one or more steps, and each step contains one or more badges. To complete a step, you earn any one of the badges inside it. To complete the pathway, you complete every step.
Completing steps on a pathway
You do not have to work through the steps in order. As soon as you earn a badge from any step, that step is marked complete on your pathway. The pathway as a whole is completed only once every step has at least one earned badge.
Steps with more than one badge
Some steps offer a choice of badges, for example three different formats covering the same skill. You only need one of them to complete the step. The other badges in the step stay available if you want to come back and earn them later, but they do not change the pathway status.
Surveys
Some pathways come with short surveys from the issuer to help them understand how the pathway is working for learners. If yours does, you may be invited to fill in up to three: a baseline survey at the very start, a completion survey once every step is done, and a follow-up survey a while after you finish. See Completing a Pathway Survey for what to expect.
Tracking your progress
Your active and completed pathways live in the Pathways tab on your profile. Open your profile, switch to the tab, and you will see every pathway you have started, with the steps you have already completed and the ones still outstanding. See Navigating Your Profile on Navigatr for more on the profile views.
Pathway statuses
Your pathways can be in one of four statuses:
In Progress: you have started but not finished. Most active pathways sit here.
Completed: every step has at least one earned badge.
Expired: the pathway has passed its end date. You keep credit for any steps already completed, but no further progress is possible.
Revoked: an admin has revoked your participation. This is rare and usually accompanied by a message from the issuer.
Completing a pathway
When you earn the final badge needed to complete every step, the pathway is completed. The completion view on your profile shows the date you finished and a verification URL you can share.
Completion badges
Some pathways award a completion badge: a badge issued automatically as soon as you complete the pathway. If the pathway has one, you will see a card on the pathway page showing the badge image and the message "Earn this completion badge for completing the pathway", so you know what you are working towards. Once you complete the pathway, the same card switches to "You earned this completion badge", and the badge appears on your profile alongside your other earned badges.
Not every pathway has a completion badge. Pathways without one still move to Completed when every step is complete, and you keep the individual step badges either way.
Sharing your achievement
Once a pathway is complete, you can share it via a link, post about it on LinkedIn or X, or download badges to add to a CV or email signature. See Sharing Your Achievements for more on the share options.
Tip: If you have trouble starting a pathway, cannot see your progress, or think a pathway status is wrong, contact us at [email protected].