On track

To be “on track” means to be making progress toward your goal as expected. If you continue doing what you’re doing, you’ll be successful: that is the essence of “on track.”

If you have a project that’s expected to last three weeks, you might ask yourself (or your team) after the first week: “Are we on track?” If you ask that, you want to know if the team believes that you’ll finish successfully and on time.

This is commonly used with students, too. A student is “on track” if she is learning the material throughout the term without any real difficulty.

In today’s main lesson, you heard about how therapy apps can help keep patients on track in between appointments. If a therapy appointment is once per week, an app can help patients continue to make progress during the rest of the week.