LinkedIn Learning and Adobe Deep Integration Guide

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What this Document Tells You

The following diagram illustrates the Adobe Captivate Prime and LinkedIn Learning integration process:

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Adobe Deep Integration Functionality

Authentication: SAML SSO Identity Provider

Reporting: AICC

Content Discovery: Automated Catalog Sync (English only)

Requirements:

The LinkedIn Learning and Adobe Captivate Prime deep integration configuration involves the following requirements:

  • An active Adobe Captivate Prime LMS instance

  • An active LinkedIn Learning account

  • Admin access to LinkedIn Learning

  • Admin privileges to your Adobe Captivate Prime LMS instance

Integration Overview

Check out our overview of Adobe Captivate Prime's integration benefits and capabilities.

Single Sign-On

During the initial configuration, you can configure LinkedIn Learning and Adobe to establish a secure SAML single sign-on (SSO) connection to ensure seamless access to content. SSO authentication reduces friction for users and administrators by eliminating the need for manual user registration. SSO also ensures learners spend more of their time watching content and less of their time trying to remember usernames and passwords.

Automated Content Catalog Sync

The LinkedIn Learning library contains thousands of courses. LinkedIn Learning adds courses at a rate of 20-30 per week at no extra cost. The Adobe Captivate Prime administrator manually uploads new content at regular intervals.

The Adobe Captivate Prime deep integration with LinkedIn Learning uses LinkedIn Learning APIs to refresh the content library daily. This feature ensures LinkedIn Learning makes new content available within 24 hours of release. LinkedIn Learning aggregates and indexes all content titles and descriptions to accommodate keyword searches and support efficient discoverability. Adobe Captivate Prime supports automatic syncing of English only content libraries.

Configuration

Enabling SAML SSO

We recommend SAML SSO for all enterprise learning platform integrations. You can configure SSO authentication in your LinkedIn Learning Admin settings. Most organizations have a centrally-managed identity management solution like Azure AD, Okta, or ADFS which can be configured to authenticate users into enterprise applications like LinkedIn Learning.

To configure SAML SSO with your identity management solution, share our LinkedIn Learning SSO Implementation Guide with your organization's IT team.

Reporting

LinkedIn Learning captures all content viewed on its platform in robust usage reports accessible from the LinkedIn Learning administrative interface. In addition to generating reports, LinkedIn Learning uses AICC to communicate a learner's progress back to Adobe Captivate Prime when the learner launches content from the LMS.

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AICC Configuration Steps

For LinkedIn Learning to communicate learner progress to Adobe Captivate Prime via AICC, you need to allow list your LMS hostname in your admin settings. To enable AICC, take the following steps:

  1. After you log in, if you are not already in the Admin screen, select Go to Admin, then click Me > Integration settings.

    linkedin-learning-integration-settings

  2. From the side navigation menu, select Playback integrations.

  3. Click Add Hostname(s), and in the host name field, enter your LMS host name. Generally, this value should be your Adobe Captivate Prime portal name (for example, examplecompany.adobecaptivateprime.com). If you are unsure which value to use, contact your organization's LMS administrator or your internal LMS support contact.

    Caution

    Do not use protocols for the hostname, e.g. https://.

  4. Select the Enable AICC integration checkbox. You must enter a hostname to check the Enable AICC integration box.

Note

Do not manually download or import AICC packages. In the next section of this document, we will enable automatic content integration, which allows Adobe Captivate Prime to automate the process on your behalf.

For more information about enabling AICC, review the LinkedIn Learning Standard AICC LMS Integration Guide.

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Provision API Keys for Content Catalog Sync

For Adobe Captivate Prime to sync LinkedIn Learning catalog metadata, you must provision API keys in LinkedIn Learning admin settings.

Important

For admins who wish to download videos from LinkedIn Learning, please note the following condition: You integrate video content into your LMS at the course level. If you would like to add individual videos to your LMS, follow these instructions in the LinkedIn Learning Standard AICC LMS Integration Guide to download individual videos as AICC packages.

To sync your Adobe Captivate Prime content with LinkedIn Learning, take the following steps:

  1. After you log in, if you are not already in the Admin screen, select Go to Admin, then click Me > Integration settings.

  2. From the side navigation menu, select API Application Provision.

  3. Click + Add New Application.

    linkedin-learning-api-app-provision

  4. Use "Adobe Captivate Prime" as the application name.

  5. Provide a short description of the integration use case in the application description field. For example, "Adobe Captivate Prime deep integration".

  6. There are two checkboxes – Content and Report. Select Content.

  7. Click Generate application.

    linkedin-learning-api-content-sync

Adobe Captivate Prime Configuration

To complete the configuration with Adobe Captivate Prime, you will need the following information:

  • Client ID
  • Client Secret

Once you've gathered the required information, follow the Adobe-LinkedIn Learning configuration instructions.

Congratulations! Your learners now can access LinkedIn Learning content via their Adobe Captivate Prime instance.

Questions

For LinkedIn Learning configuration questions, reach out to your dedicated Customer Success Manager.

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