LinkedIn Learning as a Content Provider

Percipio’s open platform capabilities enable a turnkey integration for LinkedIn Learning, a provider of online courses. If your organization licenses LinkedIn Learning and you integrate it with Percipio, you will see the following benefits:

  • One access point for learners to discover and launch all content accessible to them: When you import and curate LinkedIn Learning content into Percipio, learners can access all their content from Percipio. To help provide a seamless experience when learners access LinkedIn Learning content, you can establish single sign-on (SSO) between Percipio and the LinkedIn Learning platform
  • Automated content import and management: You can import all your purchased/licensed LinkedIn Learning content into Percipio with a weekly automated sync. This automated sync facilitates content life-cycle management regarding content additions, metadata updates, and removals so everything on Percipio is always in parity with the LinkedIn Learning platform. You can view import history to check.
  • Ability to curate content into channels, journeys and assignments: After you make the content available to learners, you can create custom channels and journeys adding both Skillsoft and LinkedIn Learning content for a meaningful experience for your learners.
  • All learning activity tracked and captured in Percipio reports: When learners launch and complete LinkedIn Learning content in Percipio, their activity is automatically captured in Percipio. Although the synchronization happens daily, it can take up to 48 hours to see activity reflected in Percipio reports and on the learner's activity dashboard.

Import LinkedIn Learning content into Percipio

To add LinkedIn Learning as a content provider, your organization must have a license for and administrative access to LinkedIn Learning.

You may also need assistance from your LinkedIn Learning representative to get the values for these settings:

  • Client ID
  • Client Secret
  • Account ID
  • SAML Configuration name
  • Assertion Consumer Service (ACS) URL
  • Entity Id

You can find the above details for these settings on your LinkedIn Learning admin page

Once you have this information, you can enable LinkedIn Learning as a content provider.

  1. Choose Site Settings > Content Providers, then from the Available for Technical Integration section select I want to know more about supported technical integrations.
  2. In the Available Providers section, choose LinkedIn Learning, then select Add Provider. If you do not see the icon for the provider, please reach out to your Skillsoft account team to enable it for you.
  3. Set the toggle to On.
  4. Enter your , Client id and Client Secret , then click Validate your credentials.
  5. Enter your Account Id, SAML Configuration name, Assertion Consumer Service (ACS) URL and Entity Id as provided by LinkedIn Learning.
  6. To allow learners to log in only once and access content from Percipio or LinkedIn Learning, you can configure single sign-on (SSO). You can configure SSO during initial set up or at a later time by editing the configuration. You can do it in one of two ways:

    When you want to use Percipio as your IDP:

    1. Under the IDP section, select Percipio.

    2. Select Generate IDP Metadata. Percipio provides a URL.

    3. Copy the URL and get in touch with the LinkedIn Learning team for configuration and set up of SSO.

    When you want to use an IDP other than Percipio:

    1. Under the IDP section, select Third Party.

    2. You then need to work with your Skillsoft account team to configure Percipio with SSO.

  7. To ensure all learning is captured in Percipio reports, you must set up xAPI reporting between LinkedIn Learning and Percipio. You can configure xAPI reporting during initial set up or at a later time by editing the configuration.

    Copy each of the links provided in the xAPI Reporting section and paste them into LinkedIn Learning administrative settings in the Reporting integration area. The links you need to copy from Percipio are:

    • OAuth Server URL
    • Tenant Server URL
    • Client ID
    • Client Secret

  8. Save your settings by selecting Save Configuration.

  9. When you are ready to import the content, select Publish Content.
    • Once imported, all content is contained in one custom channel. The custom channel is a system-only channel “” and is not viewable from the Content -> Channels page.
    • The import includes only the locales/languages that Percipio supports.
    • Admins can view the content imported in the All content listing by title report by sorting on Source = .

Make LinkedIn Learning content available to learners

After you publish the content, the next step is to make it available to the people who should have access to it. You have two options:

When you want to allow users to search for all LinkedIn Learning content, those users need to be a member of an audience. You then need to associate that audience with the LinkedIn Learning system channel.

To allow users to search for all LinkedIn Learning content:

  1. Select Users -> Audience management.
  2. Either locate an existing audience and edit it or create a new one. You see the Audience details page.

    Audience details page

  3. From the Content Association section, select Associate custom channels.
  4. Locate LinkedIn Learning from the list and select the plus icon add icon, white plus sign in a blue circle and then select Associate to audience.
  5. Save your changes or create your audience. Users in this audience can now search for LinkedIn Learning content.

After you make the association, user can find LinkedIn Learning content by entering the word LinkedIn Learning as part of the search term or filter search results using Source = LinkedIn Learning. If you want learners to also be able to browse for the LinkedIn Learning content, see allow users to browse for LinkedIn Learning content.

You can add LinkedIn Learning content into custom channels and journeys so users can browse for it, just like other content. We recommend that you create multiple channels or journeys and add content based on topic or need instead of adding all LinkedIn Learning content into one channel.

To allow users to browse for LinkedIn Learning content:

  1. Ensure the admin who is creating/editing the custom channel or journey has access to the LinkedIn Learning system channel. To grant access to the system channel, see allow users to search for all LinkedIn Learning content.

  2. Once the admins have access to the system channel, they can create custom channels and journeys.

    By default, when you create a custom channel or journey, it is available to all users. However, you can associate the custom channel or journey to just a specific audience. Whichever audience has access to the LinkedIn Learning custom channel or journey can view it from the library and locate its content by searching.

View LinkedIn Learning content import history

To view the import history of your LinkedIn Learning content, select View import history.

The View import history page shows you the weekly sync statistics for the content import, including:

  • Status
  • Date of import
  • Number of imported assets
  • Number of curated assets
  • Number of updated assets

 

Add SSO after initial configuration

To allow learners to log in only once and access content from Percipio, you can add single sign-on (SSO) configuration to LinkedIn Learning. You can do it in one of two ways:

When you want to use Percipio as your IDP:

  1. Choose Site Settings > Content Providers, then from the Available for Technical Integration section select I want to know more about supported technical integrations.

  2. In the Available Providers section, choose LinkedIn Learning, then select Edit Provider.

  3. Under the IDP section, select Percipio.

  4. Select Generate IDP Metadata. Percipio provides a URL.

  5. Copy the URL and get in touch with the LinkedIn Learning team for configuration and set up of SSO.

When you want to use an IDP other than Percipio:

  1. Choose Site Settings > Content Providers, then from the Available for Technical Integration section select I want to know more about supported technical integrations.

  2. In the Available Providers section, choose LinkedIn Learning, then select Edit Provider.

  3. Under the IDP section, select Third Party.

  4. You then need to work with your Skillsoft account team to configure Percipio with SSO.

Add xAPI reporting after initial configuration

To ensure all learning is captured in Percipio reports, you must set up xAPI reporting between LinkedIn Learning and Percipio.

If you previously configured LinkedIn Learning and did not configure xAPI reporting at that time, you can do it at any time by following these steps:

  1. Choose Site Settings > Content Providers, then from the Available for Technical Integration section select I want to know more about supported technical integrations.

  2. In the Available Providers section, choose LinkedIn Learning, then select Edit Provider.

  3. Copy each of the links provided in the xAPI Reporting section and paste them into LinkedIn Learning administrative settings in the Reporting integration area. The links you need to copy from Percipio are:

    • OAuth Server URL
    • Tenant Server URL
    • Client ID
    • Client Secret