A Pathway is a collection of 2 or more items made up of Courses, Communications and Events. A Pathway allows you to group modules together for the purposes of tracking your progress to completion for all the items in a particular Pathway as a whole.
Found on each user's profile are all those pathways that have been assigned or made available to that user. Each Pathway can be expanded to reveal the list of all the items that comprise this Pathway including your current status to completion.