How to Share LinkedIn Learning Content in Blackboard

LinkedIn Learning is available to all faculty, students, and staff at Missouri State University. You can share LinkedIn Learning content with your students easily within your Blackboard course. There are multiple ways to make this content available in your course:

Step-by-Step Guide

How to Share a LinkedIn Learning Course via Web Link

  1. Access LinkedIn Learning and locate the course you want to share with your students.
  2. Select the course name to open the course.
    A display of LinkedIn Learning courses with one course title highlighted.
     
  3. Select the first video in the course if it isn't selected for you.
  4. Click the share button at the top right of the video then select the Link option.
    Highlighted share arrow icon and the link option is selected.
     
  5. Copy the link that is shown.
    Link share pop-up box with the copy button highlighted.
     
  6. Navigate to your Blackboard course and locate the content area where you would like students to access the LinkedIn Learning course.
  7. Select the Build Content menu and choose the Web Link option.
    Blackboard page showing the Build Content menu with the web link option highlighted.
     
  8. Give the link a name and then paste the link you copied from LinkedIn Learning into the URL box.
    Web Link information page showing the linkedin learning course title and link
     
  9. You can add a description for the link to give students more information or instruction, and add file attachments to the link if desired.
  10. Choose your standard options and then click Submit.
    Blackboard web link and standard options menus with the submit button highlighted.
     
  11. The link will appear at the bottom of your content area page.
    Display of the web link on the Blackboard page.
     

How to Share a LinkedIn Learning Course via Embed Code

  1. Access LinkedIn Learning and locate the course you want to share with your students.
  2. Select the course name to open the course.
  3. Select the first video in the course if it isn't selected for you. 
  4. Click the share button at the top right of the video then select the Embed option.
    Share menu with the embed option highlighted.
     
  5. Copy the code that is shown.
    Embed code pop-up box with the copy button highlighted.
     
  6. Navigate to your Blackboard course and locate the content area where you would like students to access the LinkedIn Learning course.
  7. Select the Build Content menu and choose the Item option.
    Blackboard Build Content menu with the Item option highlighted.
     
  8. Give the item a name and select the Source Code button on the content editor.
    Section of the content editor toolbar with the source code button highlighted.
     

  9. Paste the code from LinkedIn Learning into the Source Code box, then delete the lines as shown below; these are highlighted in yellow on the screenshot:
    <div style="position:relative;height:0;padding-bottom:56.25%">
    mozallowfullscreen="true" webkitallowfullscreen="true" allowfullscreen="true" frameborder="0" style="position:absolute;width:100%;height:100%;left:0"     Source code box with code to be deleted highlighted

Please Note: If the above code is not deleted the video will not embed properly and the video will not be visible once you click Submit.
  1. Click Save. The embedded video will appear within the content editor.
  2. Add any additional content or file attachments, then select your standard options and click Submit.
    Attachments and standard options menu with the submit button highlighted.
     
  3. The course item with the embedded video will appear at the bottom of your content area page.
Please Note: Sharing via embed code will only display the first video in the course (or the video where you clicked the Share button in LinkedIn Learning). If you want your students to view the entire course, you will need to direct them to click the course name beneath the video or use the above instructions to embed each video in the course to your Blackboard page.
 Blackboard course item with the LinkedIn Learning course title highlighted

 

How to Share a LinkedIn Learning Collection

If you or a LinkedIn Learning administrator has created a Collection, you can share that with your students via a direct link.

  1. Access LinkedIn Learning and select the Browse option at the top left of the page.
    LinkedIn Learning Browse button
     
  2. Select Missouri State University from the menu.
    Missouri State University menu under Browse options
     
  3. Scroll down to the Collections from Missouri State University section and select Show All.
    Collections from Missouri State University menu with the Show All button highlighted.
     
  4. Click on the desired collection to open it then select the Share button on the right side of the page.
    Share button on the Collection page.
     
  5. Copy the link that is shown.
    Share link pop-up box with the Copy button highlighted.
     
  6. Navigate to your Blackboard course and decide how you want your students to access the Collection. You have two main options:
    1. Add a web link to your course menu.
      1. Select the circled plus sign button from the top left of the course menu.
      2. Click the Web Link option.
        Add Menu Item menu with the Web Link option highlighted.
         
      3. Give the link a name and paste the link from LinkedIn Learning in the URL box. 
      4. Check the Available to Users box and click Submit.
        Add web link box showing the link name and url with the available to users box checked and submit button highlighted.
         
      5. The web link will appear at the bottom of your course menu. You can hover to the left of the link name to drag it to a different location on your course menu.
        New web link shown on the course menu.
         
    2. Add a web link to a content area.
      1. View the instructions above for sharing content via a web link in steps 6-11.

 

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Article ID: 120589
Created
Tue 11/17/20 2:15 PM
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Fri 8/25/23 7:35 AM