Setting up LinkedIn Learning with LTI 1.3 in Moodle

What this Document Tells You

The following steps illustrate the LinkedIn Learning and LTI 1.3 integration process:

What is LTI 1.3/Advantage?

LTI is a standard used to integrate different learning platforms and tools to create a richer learning experience for the higher education sector. LTI 1.3 is the latest version of the LTI standard that focuses on improving security, enabling better content discoverability, and creating greater flexibility and extensibility. LTI 1.3 is the content discoverability standard for higher education using LMS providers such as Blackboard, Canvas, D2L, and Moodle.

LTI Advantage is a further set of extensions to LTI 1.3 that enhance its capabilities. Its main goals are to enable deeper integration between LMS and LTI tools and platforms, removing the need for custom integrations, and to provide a secure channel to transmit student and enrollment information. The three services included in LTI Advantage are:

1. Deep Linking: allows course creators to easily select and configure the content displayed to learners. For example, creators can configure a link that will launch a specific segment from a video, rather than displaying the full video and asking students to manually find the segment, saving time for both teachers and students.

2. Assignments and Grades: syncs grades, progress, and comments from multiple sources into an LMS platform’s gradebook, reducing faculty effort and any potential errors.

3. Names and Roles Provisioning: securely shares course roster and enrollment information. This enables admins and instructors to access reports on student activity within the tool, such as which enrolled students have or have not started an activity.

Things to Consider before Implementation

Since the LTI standard requires an LMS to launch the LinkedIn Learning content, the integration has distinct tradeoffs. Before opting for LTI, please review the sections below to ensure you fully understand the advantages and disadvantages of LTI integrations.

Advantages

If you are a LinkedIn Learning user or admin, you have the following benefits of LTI integration:

• Seamless access to LinkedIn Learning for students and instructors

• Engaging user experiences for students and instructors

• Gradable content

• Content easily integrated into LMS courses

Limitations

If you are thinking about using the LTI standard in your learning platform, keep in mind the following restrictions:

• To access LinkedIn Learning content, users must have access to your LMS. If a user cannot log into the LMS, the user does not have access to LinkedIn Learning.

• Content is only accessible from within the LMS. Educators cannot "deep link" to LinkedIn Learning content on class webpages, wikis, or other external systems.

• If your organization uses another form of Single Sign-on (SSO) with LinkedIn Learning, the SSO connection must use the same unique user ID as your LTI connection to prevent duplicate profiles.

Important

Please use the corresponding guides for your desired LMS integration. If you do not see your LMS listed below please continue to the next step.

• D2L
• Moodle
• Canvas
• Blackboard

Prerequisites

You must be a designated LinkedIn Learning administrator to access Integration settings. If you are not an administrator, please reach out to your internal LinkedIn Learning lead, who can add you as an administrator in the system.

Register LinkedIn Learning in Moodle

You must be a designated LinkedIn Learning administrator to access Integration settings. If you are not an administrator, please reach out to your internal LinkedIn Learning lead, who can add you as an administrator in the system.

1. After you log in, if you are not already in the Admin screen, select Go to Admin.

   

2. From the Admin portal click on the Me drop down found in the upper right hand corner and select Authenticate:

   

3. In the left-hand navigation menu, select Configure single sign-on and click Add new SSO. Select LTI 1.3

   

4. Name your new SSO (e.g. LTI 1.3 Moodle) and click Next.

   

5. Keep this window open. We will be using these values in step 8 below.

   

6. Open a new browser window or tab and log into Moodle as an admin. Under Site administration, navigate to → Plugins → Activity Modules → External Tool → Manage Tools.

   

7. Under Add tool, select configure a tool manually.

   

8. Fill out the Tool Settings form with the values from LinkedIn Learning (step 5 above):

   1. Tool Name - LinkedIn Learning

      

   2. Tool URL - Copy Domain value from LIL.

      

      Paste the value in the following field in Moodle (be sure to remove the slash “/” at the end of the URL)

      

   3. Tool Description - Set to LinkedIn Learning

      

   4. LTI Version - Select LTI 1.3

      

   5. Public key type - Select Keyset URL

      

   6. Public keyset - Copy the Keyset URL value from LIL.

      

      Paste the value into the following field in Moodle

      

   7. Initiate login URL - Paste Value B from step 4 Copy the OIDC Connect Initialization field out of LIL

      

      Paste the value into the following field in Moodle

      

   8. Redirection URI(s) - Paste Value C from Step 4. Copy the OIDC Redirect URL out of LIL.

      

      Paste it into the following field in Moodle

      

   9. Custom parameters - Leave blank.

   10. Tool configuration usage - Select Show as a preconfigured tool when adding an external tool

       

   11. Default launch container - Select Embed, without block, AND check the box, Supports Deep Linking (Content-Item Message)

       

   12. Content Selection URL - Set to https://www.linkedin.com/learning-admin/lti-deep-link

       

       The result should look like like the following:

       

9. Fill out the Services form:

   1. IMS LTI Assignment and Grade Services - Select “Use this service for grade sync and column management”.

      

   2. IMS LTI Names and Role Provisioning - Select “Use this service to retrieve members’ information as per privacy settings”.

      

   3. Tool Settings - Select “Use this service”.

      

      Result should look like the following:

      

10. Fill out the Privacy form:

    1. Share launcher's name with tool - Select “Always”.

    2. Share launcher's email with tool - Select “Always”.

    3. Accept grades from the tool - Select “Always”.

       

11. Click Save Changes.

    

12. Under the newly created LinkedIn Learning Tool, click the list icon.

    

13. The registration details modal will open. This information will be used at a later step.

    

Finalize Moodle Connection in LinkedIn Learning Settings

1. Go back to the LinkedIn Learning Settings window, and click the Next button. Complete the form with the Tool Registration Details values obtained in the previous step.

   1. Client ID - Copy value out of the Tool Configuration Detail in Moodle

      

      Paste it into the Client ID field in LIL

      

   2. Deployment ID - Copy the value out of the Tool Configuration Detail in Moodle

      

      Paste it into the Deployment ID field in LIL

      

   3. OIDC Issuer - Copy the value out of the Tool Configuration Detail in Moodle

      

      Paste it into the OIDC Issuer field in LIL

      

   4. Platform OIDC Authentication URL - Copy the value out of the Tool Configuration Detail in Moodle

      

      Paste it into the Platform OIDC Authentication URL in LIL

      

   5. Select Keyset URL

      

   6. Platform OAuth 2.0 Keyset URL - Copy the value out of the Tool Configuration Detail in Moodle

      

      Paste it into the Platform OAuth 2.0 Keyset URL in LIL

      

   7. Platform OAuth 2.0 Token Retrieval URL - Copy the value out of the Tool Configuration Detail in Moodle

      

      Paste it into the Platform OAuth 2.0 Token Retrieval URL in LIL

      

   The end result should look like the following:

   

2. Click Next, and:

   1. Toggle the Enable LTI Advantage switch to ON.

      

   2. In the textbox fill in your Moodle domain, and click Add.

      

   3. Toggle Reporting switch to ON.

      

   4. Toggle the Deep Linking switch to ON.

      

3. Click Save.

   

4. In the “SSO connections” table, find the SSO we just saved, click the “Status” drop-down menu, select “Active”.

   

5. Click Activate.

   

6. The SSO connection should look like this:

   

Create a Course

1. On the left hand-side, expand Site administration → Click the Courses → and then the Add a new course.

   

2. Fill out the course fields in the form to your preference. For Completion tracking, make sure to keep the default settings to Yes.

   

3. Click the Save and display button.

   

Add LinkedIn Learning Content to a Course

1. Access the course, and make sure editing is turned ON. Click Add an activity or resource.

   

2. Click External Tool.

   

3. Set Preconfigured tool to “LinkedIn Learning”, and click Select content.

   

4. The LinkedIn Learning Deep Linking Experience will open

   

5. You can search, add, and remove courses/videos. When done, click the Confirm button at the bottom.

   

6. The Deep Linking experience will close, and take you back to the activity with the newly added content. Review the activity fields, and click Save and return to course.

Congratulations! Your learners now can use the LinkedIn Learning and Moodle LTI 1.3 integration for SSO and learner progress reporting.

Common Issues & Troubleshooting Tips

• Issue: if you find when launching the LTI Advantage Tool that it freezes or gets stuck in a loading screen. The issue could be due to cross-site tracking being enabled on your browser.

• Fix: you will want to disable cross-site tracking on that browser. Please work with your IT team for assistance.

• Issue: If you experience a strange nested issue (or error) after clicking the Add button for either a Course or Video in the LTI Advantage tool the issue could be the domain you indicated in step 4.

• Fix: You want to be sure you are including either https://www.linkedin.com or just www.linkedin.com. If you’re already using one option try using the other to see if that fixes it. You may also need to clear your cache.

• Issue: If when launching the LTI Advantage Tool, you receive an “Things Aren’t Loading” error

The issue has to do with being logged into LinkedIn Learning or having an already active Learning session in another tab and/ or browser.

• Fix 1: Try logging out of LinkedIn Learning in any tabs or browsers it is currently active in.

• Fix 2: Try clearing your cache and cookies or launching the LTI Advantage Tool in a private/ incognito browser window.

• Issue If you receive an "Oops! It's not you. It's us. Give it another try, please." error.

It means you are missing hostname(s) needing to be added in the LTI Advantage Tool tab in the LTI 1.3 configuration settings in LinkedIn Learning.

• Fix 1: you will want to add those missing hostname(s) and test it again.

• To add those hostname(s), you want to be logged into the Admin Tool in Linkedin Learning.

• Hover over Me > Authentication

• Next you want to click the 3 dots to the right of the LTI 1.3 configuration in the center panel > followed by Edit

• Click on the LTI Advantage Tool tab

• Type the hostname into the field > click the Add button. Repeat for multiple names then click Save in the bottom right.

• Fix 2: If this error is intermittent, you may need to reach out to LinkedIn Learning Support for further assistance, but you can try a different browser or clear your cache to see if it helps.

• Issue: If you see an “Unable to connect to www.linkedin.com” error

This is likely due to a mismatch with the configuration.

• Fix: Check to see if the Redirect URLs, the Target Link URI and the OpenID Connect Initiation URL are configured correctly. Any mismatch in values will result in the LTI Advantage Tool to fail. If the issue continues, please reach out to LinkedIn support.

Frequently Asked Questions

Q. Are all users able to connect their LinkedIn profiles through an LTI connection?

A. Yes, LTI supports profile association.

Q. Which provisioning types are supported?

A. LTI requires JIT (just in time) provisioning and is automatically configured. This condition means that, upon the first successful LTI authentication, LinkedIn Learning automatically creates a user profile (if a user does not already exist).

Q. Can SAML SSO and LTI be enabled at the same time?

A. You can enable both authentication options at the same time, but we recommend that you consult your dedicated Technical Consultant before adopting this method. You might unintentionally create duplicate accounts if the same group of users has access to both LTI and a second SSO connection.

Q. Is the Unique User ID value configurable?

A. Yes, you can configure the Unique User ID in the External ID Parameter Name field.

Q. Can LTI launches be loaded in an iFrame?

A. No, LTI does not support iFrames.

Support

Below you can find supporting documentation and other resources.

Supporting Documentation

• LinkedIn Learning SSO Implementation

• LTI, Canvas, and LinkedIn Learning Configuration

• Google SSO

• Okta SSO

• Add and Manage Users in Bulk via CSV

• Privacy and Security Whitepaper: Account Center Employee Database Integration (EDI) and Single Sign-On (SSO)

Technical Issues

If you have technical issues with the SSO setup, contact your account team or application support team through the LinkedIn Learning Help Center.

LinkedIn's Privacy and Data Security Policy

https://www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy

LinkedIn Security Contacts

If you have any security questions or you would like to report a security issue, write to us at security@linkedin.com.

Additional Resources

For more information on integrating LTI v1.3 with your LMS and LinkedIn Learning, see IMS Global’s LTI 1.3 Implementation Guide.

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