LinkedIn Learning: Access Your Penn State LinkedIn Learning Account Without Connecting Your Personal LinkedIn Profile

Penn State students, faculty and staff who want to take advantage of the learning and career development opportunities available through LinkedIn Learning, but do not want to connect LIL to their personal LinkedIn Profile.

Visit linkedinlearning.psu.edu to set up your Penn State LinkedIn Learning (LIL) account. You do not need to have a LinkedIn profile to use LinkedIn Learning. If you have an existing LinkedIn profile, you have the option to connect it to LIL or proceed without connecting.

NOTE: Connecting your LinkedIn profile to your Penn State email address is optional.

Access Your Account for the First Time

1. Navigate to linkedinlearning.psu.edu (opens in a new window)
   
   
2. Click the Log in button in the upper right of the window.
3. Log in to your Penn State Account (ie: abc123), if necessary.
   
   
4. Click the Continue without LinkedIn button on the Welcome pop up that appears.
   
   
   Figure 1: The Continue without LinkedIn button
5. Click the Do Not Connect My Account button on the additional pop up.
   NOTE: If you would like to connect your LinkedIn Learning account to your LinkedIn Profile, click the Connect my LinkedIn Account button and follow the instructions in the article in the Links section below.
   
   
6. Click the Sounds Good button on the Welcome to LinkedIn Learning page.

Select Categories and Skills to Receive Recommendations

You can choose to select topics of interest to receive video and course recommendations.

1. Select a Category (Business, Creative, or Technology) of interest from the "What are you most interested in?" page.
   
   
   Figure 2: Choose skills from Business, Creative, and Technology categories.
2. Select one or more Skills of interest from the "Choose some popular skills" page.
   
   
   Figure 3: Popular skills that appear for the Technology Category
   
   
   
3. Click the Continue button at the bottom of the page when you are finished.
   NOTE: You can change these selections at any time by following the instructions in the article in the Links section below.
   
   
4. Your LinkedIn Learning home page now displays a series of categories that align with the skills you selected (if any) and training suggestions based on your LinkedIn profile (if connected).

• Using the "Skills You're Interested In" Feature in LinkedIn Learning (external resource)
• The Recommendations Feature in LinkedIn Learning (external resource)
• Log in and Connect Your Account (KB)