Build a learning path

What this achieves

A learning path is an ordered sequence of courses aimed at developing someone toward a role or a capability. It turns a set of separate courses into a journey with a beginning and an end.

Required role: Administrator.

Before you start

The courses you want to include must exist. A path is a sequence of existing courses, not a place to author new ones.

Steps

Go to Learning → Learning Paths.
Select Create Path.
Enter the Title, an optional Code, and a Description.
Set the Estimated duration (hours).
Select Create Path.
On the path, select Add Course and search for each course to include.
Drag the courses into the order learners should take them.
Select Publish.

Order is meaningful

Courses are held in an order you set by dragging, and the order is saved as you arrange it. Learners work through the path in that sequence, so put foundational material before anything that assumes it.

Example: an engineering onboarding path at HC Corp UK Ltd puts the general induction before the technical courses, so James Whitfield meets the company before the codebase.

Required and optional courses

Courses within a path can be marked as required. That distinction decides what finishing the path actually demands.

Keep the required set to what genuinely must be done. A path where everything is required and half of it is peripheral is a path people abandon.

Publishing

A path cannot be published until it contains at least one course — Humavera says so on the publish action.

Option	Description
Draft	Being built. Not available to learners.
Published	Available for enrolment.
Archived	Withdrawn from the active catalogue.

Paths and budgets

Course cost feeds budget calculations when paths are generated from skill gaps. Where you are building a path by hand from paid courses, the costs recorded on those courses are what any budget view will total.

Example: a path at HC Corp UK Ltd combining two paid external courses carries their combined cost per learner, which is what makes it comparable against a training budget.

What happens next

Once published, the path can be assigned to employees or enrolled into individually, and it appears alongside courses in enrolment management. Completion is tracked across the path as well as per course, so a learner’s progress through the sequence is visible rather than only their status on each item.