The ability to customize completion settings for journeys gives you flexible and powerful ways to design learning paths that match your organization’s training needs. By combining standard completion rules with advanced “journeys within journeys,” you can create dynamic learning experiences—such as pre-assessments, optional pathways, and branched learning structures.
This article explains the core strategies, how they work, and how you can use them to build sophisticated learning journeys.
Important: If you update a learning item’s completion date after a Journey is already complete, the Journey completion date will not change. Journey completion dates are only set at the time the Journey is completed and are not recalculated based on later step updates.
Core Journey Completion Strategies
Every learning journey in Bridge is made up of sequential steps—such as courses, live trainings, checkpoints, or even other journeys. By default, a journey is marked Complete only when the learner finishes all assigned steps.
However, Bridge offers three powerful completion strategies that give you greater flexibility:
1. Complete All Steps (Default / Linear Path)
This is the standard linear progression. The journey is only considered complete when every step has been successfully finished.
Best for:
- Compliance or mandatory training
- Situations where mastery of all content is required
2. Complete X Number of Steps (Flexible Requirements)
The journey is marked complete once the learner completes a minimum number of steps that you define (X).
Example:
A language journey contains four optional modules (C1, C2, C3, C4). You can set the journey to complete when the learner finishes any one of them.
Best for:
- Optional or equivalent learning paths
- Electives or content bundles where learners can choose what’s most relevant
3. First Step Defines the Journey (Pre-Assessment Logic)
In this strategy, the first step controls the entire journey. This option is typically used for pre-assessments. The status of the first step determines whether the learner must continue.
How it works:
If the first step (often a course with an assessment) is passed, the entire journey is automatically marked complete.
If the learner fails, they must complete the remaining steps in the journey.
Best for:
- Pre-assessments or skill checks
- Placing learners in the right level without requiring unnecessary training
Advanced Design: Using Journeys Within Journeys
The real instructional design power comes from nesting journeys inside other journeys—often called “journeys within journeys.” This allows you to build modular, branched, and role-specific pathways without creating messy or duplicated structures.
Example: Branched Onboarding Using Multiple Strategies
Here’s how you can combine strategies to build a flexible onboarding experience:
Main Journey (Journey 1)
Represents the full onboarding program.
- Set to Complete All Steps
- Contains required general training steps (e.g., HR policies, IT setup)
Nested Journey (Journey 2): Track Selection
This step allows learners to choose their professional track (e.g., PM, Engineer, CSM).
- Contains three role-specific journeys
- Set to Complete 1 of 3 Steps
Role-Specific Journeys (Journeys 3A, 3B, 3C)
Each sequence represents a job-specific learning path.
- Set to Complete All Steps
- Only the journey linked to the learner’s chosen track needs to be completed
How the Journeys Workflow Looks for the Learner
- The learner completes the general onboarding steps.
- They reach the track-selection step (Journey 2).
- They choose their role pathway—only one needs to be completed.
- Completing their chosen path marks Journey 2 as complete.
- With all required steps done, the main onboarding journey is marked complete.
Why Use Journey Completion Strategies?
These completion strategies enable you to:
✔ Personalize learning paths without complicated branching logic
✔ Deliver pre-assessments that adapt to the learner’s experience
✔ Offer optional or equivalent content
✔ Keep reporting clean by focusing on the top-level journey
✔ Reuse learning paths across multiple programs
Journey completion strategies give admins deep flexibility while ensuring learners have a clear and intuitive experience.
If you’d like more help designing your journeys, please see free to join one of our Bridge Office hour sessions, speak to your account manager or click the “?” icon in the bottom-left corner of your Bridge instance to view the support options available to you.
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