LinkedIn Learning: Access Your Penn State LinkedIn Learning Account and Connect a LinkedIn Profile

Penn State students, faculty and staff who want to take advantage of the learning and career development opportunities available through LinkedIn Learning.

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

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

Accessing 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 Connect my LinkedIn account button on the Welcome pop up that appears.
   
   
   Figure 1: Connect my LinkedIn account button.
   
   
5. Log into your LinkedIn account, if necessary.
   
   1. If you are already logged into LinkedIn in your current browser, LinkedIn Learning will automatically recognize your profile and ask you to confirm. 
      
      NOTE: If you do not want to connect your LinkedIn Learning account to your LinkedIn Profile, click Continue without LinkedIn 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).

Note: LinkedIn Learning will no longer be accessible to learners logging in from the Chinese Mainland after December 14, 2021. This who visit LinkedIn Learning using an IP address from the Chinese Mainland will be notified by a message in the application. A full list of technology tool limitations is available on the International Restrictions of Penn State Software and Technology Services page.

• Using the "Skills You're Interested In" Feature in LinkedIn Learning (external resource)
• The Recommendations Feature in LinkedIn Learning (external resource)
• Access Your Penn State LinkedIn Learning Account Without Connecting Your Personal LinkedIn Profile (KB)