Cornerstone LMS Integration FAQ

Yes, there is a fee for Skillsoft Professional Services team to implement the Cornerstone LMS connector. After you implement the connector, it is free to use as part of Percipio.

Yes. You will need to license the Percipio by Skillsoft integration from the Cornerstone Edge Marketplace. For more information and any possible fees, contact your Cornerstone Account Team.

This will depend on your specific implementation, but if you have purchased the Percipio by Skillsoft integration from the Cornerstone Edge Marketplace, your technical LMS administrator can perform the steps to configure Cornerstone LMS.

Yes. The Cornerstone LMS  connector is the only supported method for automatically synchronizing Percipio learner usage data.

You can choose to manually export data from Percipio or use the available APIs to build your own process to import and synchronize the data if you wish.

Yes. The Cornerstone LMS connector is the only supported method for automatically synchronizing Percipio content items.

You can choose to manually export data from Percipio or use the available APIs to build your own process to import and synchronize the data if you wish.

Yes. If you contact your Skillsoft account team, they can share with you a short video that shows the learner experience.

This will depend on how prepared you are and the availability of your resources to work on the project.

To ensure your success, our Skillsoft team will work collaboratively with you during the implementation process and help you make decisions around deployment options that will work best for your configuration.

Our implementation team has defined the project schedule based on our years of experience and best practices. The project typically takes 6-8 weeks, but each project is unique and so Skillsoft will make our best effort to accommodate your schedule.

Yes. All Skillsoft content types can be made available in Cornerstone LMS.

Journeys and Channels will be transformed into a course and the title will be enhanced with the content type. For example: (Journey)First Time Manager or (Channel) Python Fundamentals.

Yes. During the implementation process you will work with the Skillsoft account team to select the content you wish to make available.

You will be able select by the Skillsoft content types, for example only adding courses, and further refine the selection to specific content items if you wish.

It is important to note that if the content items are not loaded into Cornerstone LMS, then usage will not be recorded in Cornerstone LMS for these items.

Yes, Skillsoft Compliance Suite content is part of the content synchronized by the connector.

If you are using Compliance 1.0, then no. Compliance content is provided as AICC packages. You can use the standard Cornerstone LMS Course Publisher tools to load and manage Skillsoft compliance content.

A Cornerstone LMS administrator  manages the scheduled time, but the process runs at least once a day.

Yes. All the Skillsoft content in all languages will be included in the process.

Yes. New Skillsoft content items will automatically be added to the Cornerstone LMS .

Yes. Updated Skillsoft content items will automatically update in Cornerstone LMS.

Yes. Retired Skillsoft content items will automatically be marked as inactive in Cornerstone LMS.

Yes, for certain values. These values are usually unique to your specific implementation of Cornerstone LMS and not related to Skillsoft metadata about the content item.

During the implementation process the Skillsoft account team will work with you to configure these values.

No. There is no synchronization of Skillsoft Subjects and Areas to Cornerstone LMS Subjects. You can choose to manually add the content items into subjects once loaded into Cornerstone.

No. There is no synchronization of Skillsoft Collection information to Cornerstone LMS.

Using SAML Single Sign-on (SSO) means that learner’s access to the content in Percipio should be seamless. This is dependent on how your SAML system is configured.

Yes. Skillsoft recommends using Cornerstone LMS as your SAML Identity Provider, but you can use any identity provider so long as it can supply the correct learner identifier.

No. Using our recommended SAML configuration means that a Percipio learner account will be created the first time the learner accesses content. The learner account is populated with the SAML information your system supplies. Subsequent accesses will update the Percipio account based on the data from your SAML system.

You can also choose to setup an automated feed from your HR systems to add additional learner information to Percipio, if all the information is not available in your SAML system

Cornerstone LMS  uses the metadata about Skillsoft content delivered through the Automated Content Management process. Cornerstone LMS  has its own algorithms for displaying content, handling learner's searches, and providing content recommendations which is different from Percipio.

No. There is no synchronization of Cornerstone LMS assignments to Percipio.

No. There is no synchronization of Skillsoft subjects and areas to Cornerstone LMS  subjects.

Learners will be able to discover and launch content from:

• Cornerstone LMS  web
• Cornerstone LMSmobile app
• Percipio web
• Percipio mobile app
• Any Percipio add-ons or plug-ins, such as Percipio for Microsoft Teams or Percipio ELSA browser plug-in

Yes. The Skillsoft content when synchronized is added to Cornerstone LMS with “None” availability as default. The Cornerstone LMS admin can then set the appropriate availability. For more information, please contact your Cornerstone Account Team.

No. There is no synchronization of Skillsoft collection information to Cornerstone LMS  and so it is not possible to assign a Percipio license via Cornerstone LMS .

You can assign licenses in Percipio, but learners may find content items in Cornerstone LMS  that they will not have access to in Percipio.

Yes. Cornerstone LMS will record the usage as long as the content item exists in Cornerstone LMS.

Yes. Cornerstone LMS  will record the completion as long as the content item exists in Cornerstone LMS .

Percipio sends usage to Cornerstone LMS within a few seconds of it occurring in Percipio.

Yes. The learner’s usage is tracked and available to report on using Percipio Analytics. Admins can also see the learner activity data in Cornerstone LMS .

The following usage data for a learner and piece of content is available in Cornerstone LMS: