LinkedIn Learning Upgrade

Yes. LinkedIn acquired Lynda.com and you will have access to content that was previously available through Lynda.com.

No. Your entire Lynda.com history will be migrated to your LinkedIn Learning account.

Unfortunately, you’ll have to take a small break as Lynda.com will be offline during the upgrade. It is expected to be offline the entire day on July 15.

Links to Lynda.com videos within Blackboard Learn courses will continue to function until the end of December; however, you will receive additional information on how to ensure these videos remain available in the long-term. Your local course support will assist you with this process.

Connecting your profile will allow for a more personalized learning experience that includes special course recommendations based on your job title, skills, and industry listed on your LinkedIn profile.

Learning activity such as courses viewed or completed, profile information like your name, work title, and profile photo and any courses from your personal account that you’ve transferred to your group account. Your employer will not have access to your connections, private messages, any job search activity such as job posts you’ve viewed and any learning courses you’ve viewed in your personal account.

No. LinkedIn profiles are not needed to access LinkedIn Learning.

It sounds like you connected your LinkedIn Learning account to your personal LinkedIn account after the migration from Lynda to LinkedIn. If you have done this, you will have to enter your personal LinkedIn credentials at the LinkedIn login page after you have signed in with your Kent State credentials.

You will receive an email with steps to activate your LinkedIn Learning account without a LinkedIn profile when the upgrade occurs. You do not need a LinkedIn account to use LinkedIn Learning, but information is available from LinkedIn to guide you through the steps of creating one.

We recommend that you do not connect your account because it can be very confusing to people while logging in, as it does ask for your personal LinkedIn credentials every time you log in. Also, once the account is connected, it is difficult to undo it at this time and requires either contacting LinkedIn or an administrator removing your license.

One big change from Lynda to LinkedIn Learning (LiL) is that people can no longer share playlists that they have created unless they are a sub-admin of the system and created it under Collections. They can still share individual videos, but they will need to be made sub-admin in order to share a playlist (now known as Collections).

Here is how to create a collection, once you have admin permissions:

• Sign in to LiL and click on “Go to Admin” on the upper right
• Click on “Content” in the menu at the top of the screen
• Click on “Collections” just below the top menu
• Click on “Create new”
• Once you have created your collection and added the videos, you can click on ellipses (More actions) and recommend or get a shareable link.