Synchronize courses, statistics and skills from LinkedIn Learning

You can synchronize LinkedIn Learning courses, statistics, and skills with your 360Learning platform. Videos, events, links, and custom courses are not synchronized.

Synchronized LinkedIn Learning courses are represented as 360Learning courses. They can be searched, filtered, and added to programs, paths, group catalogs, and libraries on the 360Learning platform but are played directly on LinkedIn Learning.

Step 1: Request the activation of the LinkedIn Learning connector

Send an email to your CSP or SA, asking for the activation of the LinkedIn Learning connector, with the following 3 items:

• Integration name: LinkedIn Learning.
• Target group ID (see Find the ID of a group): the LinkedIn Learning courses will be added to the catalog of that group. If you choose the platform group, all users in public groups will see the content in their catalog. You may want to create a private group for this synchronization.
• The email of a user with author or administrator permissions on the group, who will become the author of the courses in 360Learning.

Step 2: Synchronize courses

Once you have received confirmation that the LinkedIn Learning connector is activated on your platform, you can activate course synchronization.

Synchronized LinkedIn Learning courses are added to a specific group catalog. They cannot be deleted, nor their title, description, or content be edited from the 360Learning platform.

Authors can add synchronized LinkedIn Learning courses to programs and paths, and coaches and administrators can add synchronized courses to other catalogs and libraries, like any other 360Learning course.

Learners who click START on the course homepage are redirected to LinkedIn Learning, where they can play the course if they have the required permissions.

If the synchronized course is part of a path or program session in the 360Learning platform, launching the course in LinkedIn Learning will instantly allow the learner to start the next path step or program block, regardless of the results of the course in LinkedIn Learning.

Get LinkedIn Learning credentials

1. Connect with a LinkedIn Learning admin account to https://www.linkedin.com/learning-admin/.
2. On the top right, click Me → Integrate.
3. In the left sidebar, click Access content and reports via API.
4. Click Generate LinkedIn Learning REST API Application.
5. On the top right of the table, click Add application.
6. In Application Name, enter a meaningful name, for example, "360Learning".
7. In Application description, enter a meaningful description, for example, "Catalog sync with 360Learning".
8. In Choose one or multiple keys, check Content.
9. On the bottom right, click Next.
10. On the bottom right, click Agree and Save.

A new line is created in the table.

Click on the fields Client Id and Client Secret to copy each value. Both will be required in the next steps.

Add credentials to the platform

1. On the 360Learning platform, in the left sidebar, click on the group where the connector is activated.
2. On the top right, click  Settings.
3. In the left sidebar, click Integrations → LinkedIn Learning.
4. In Client ID, paste the field Client Id from LinkedIn Learning.
5. In Client secret, paste the field Client Secret from LinkedIn Learning.
6. On the bottom right, click SETUP INTEGRATION.
7. Click CONTINUE.

Courses will appear in the catalog the following day. Synchronization happens daily, at midnight.

Step 3: Synchronize statistics

Once you have configured course synchronization, you can activate statistics synchronization from LinkedIn Learning to the 360Learning platform, to display the following statistics:

• User ID
• Course ID
• The progress in real time (column Progress in the course dashboard in 360Learning)
• The time spent on the course (column Time spent in the course dashboard in 360Learning)
• The date and time when the course was completed (column Last activity in the course dashboard in 360Learning)

The last two values, time spent and last activity, are displayed when the course is completed, and only for courses played after the synchronization has been configured. The progress is displayed in real time.

Those elements are synchronized regardless of whether the course was played from the 360Learning platform, or LinkedIn Learning, as long as the user uses the same email address on both platforms.

Completion statistics about LinkedIn Learning course chapters are not available in 360Learning.

Get the 360Learning webhook credentials

1. On the 360Learning platform, in the left sidebar, click on the group where the connector is activated.
2. On the top right, click  Settings.
3. In the left sidebar, click Integrations → LinkedIn Learning.
4. In the section Webhook credentials, copy the Client ID and Client secret.
   Those credentials are different from the ones in step 2. They are 360Learning credentials, instead of LinkedIn Learning credentials.

Add reporting integration in LinkedIn Learning

1. Connect with a LinkedIn Learning admin account to https://www.linkedin.com/learning-admin/.
2. On the top right, click Me → Integrate.
3. On the left, click Configure reporting integrations.
4. Click Configure xAPI.
5. On the top right of the table, click Add integration.
6. In Integration name, enter a meaningful name, for example, "360Learning reporting".
7. In User type, select Email.
8. In OAuth Server URL, enter https://app.360learning.com/api/linkedinlearning/oauth2/token.
   • Replace app.360learning.com with your own URL (if you have one).
9. In Tenant Server URL, enter https://app.360learning.com/api/linkedinlearning/stats.
   • Replace app.360learning.com with your own URL (if you have one).
10. In Client ID and Client Secret, paste the values you copied in step 3.1.
11. On the bottom right, click Enable.

Step 4: Synchronize skills

You can automatically add LinkedIn Learning content categories to the synchronized LinkedIn Learning courses in the 360Learning platform, as skills.

Those skills will be added to the 360Learning platform and can be used by other courses, like any other skill.

1. In the left sidebar, click on the group where the connector is activated.
2. On the top right, click  Settings.
3. In the left sidebar, click Integrations → LinkedIn Learning.
4. Check the box Enable skills synchronization.

You can disable the skills synchronization by clearing the Enable skills synchronization check box. Skills that were previously created will not be deleted from the platform or removed from courses.

Any skill manually added to LinkedIn Learning courses will be deleted at the next synchronization.

Deactivate the integration

The synchronization will stop, and all courses will be archived. You will keep all the learning data that has already been synchronized.

1. In the left sidebar, click on the group where the connector is activated.
2. On the top right, click  Settings.
3. In the left sidebar, click Integrations → LinkedIn Learning.
4. On the bottom right, click DEACTIVATE.

Course property mapping