During September, all courses formerly provided by Lynda.com will be available through LinkedIn Learning. The University of Queensland (UQ) will continue to provide access to this content for staff and students so you will be able to access the same great training courses and gain new skills.
What is available through LinkedIn Learning
- Access to more than 5000 courses taught by industry experts to help you develop business, technology, and creative skills
- Access to courses via your desktop, mobile device, on LinkedIn, or within Learn.UQ (Blackboard)
- Personalised course recommendations based on your skills and experience to help you to achieve your personal and professional goals (you can display completed courses on your personal LinkedIn profile if you want to)
- Curated topic pages to make it easy to find something new to learn
- Resources such as quizzes, exercise files, and coding practice windows
Find out how to link to courses and share Collections so that UQ students and staff can access them.
How to login to LinkedIn Learning
As with Lynda.com, you must activate a LinkedIn Learning account to access the course content. This is not a personal LinkedIn profile, nor do you need a personal LinkedIn profile to use LinkedIn Learning.
To activate your LinkedIn Learning account:
- Go to LinkedIn Learning
- Click Sign in
- Click Sign in with your organization account
- Enter your UQ email address in this format:
- Students - s1234567@student.uq.edu.au
- Staff - version with @uq.edu.au at the end
- You will be redirected to the UQ Single sign-on page where you can login using your UQ username and password. Any existing learning history and certificates from your Lynda.com account will be in your new account.
If you have a personal LinkedIn profile you can choose to connect your Learning account if you want additional features such as course recommendations for your skills and position and what’s trending on LinkedIn Learning.
Outage during changeover
You may not be able to access either Lynda.com or LinkedIn Learning for up to 18 hours as data is migrated to the new platform.
Building your profile in LinkedIn
LinkedIn Learning can help you develop skills and attributes to enhance your employability. The UQ Careers Team provides information to help you with communicating your employability and will be offering a series of workshops to help you use LinkedIn Learning and understand how LinkedIn can be used to reflect your employability and professional aspirations. These workshops will be promoted on StudentHub. The team has already scheduled the first of these workshops.
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Date and Time |
Event |
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Thursday 5 September, 10am – 11am |
Make LinkedIn Work for YOU Training room 94-215, Biological Sciences Library This workshop will show you the many different ways that you can Learn, Educate and Engage with LinkedIn. |
| Thursday 12 September, 10am – 11am |
Make LinkedIn Work for YOU Training room 94-215, Biological Sciences Library This workshop will show you the many different ways that you can Learn, Educate and Engage with LinkedIn. |
Privacy
Because access to LinkedIn Learning is paid for by The University of Queensland, the administrator of the account will be able to see your Learning activity data (such as courses you've completed) but will not be able to see your private LinkedIn activity. You can control what is displayed on your personal LinkedIn profile. See the details of the Privacy Information here.
Contact us
We're here to help. Please contact us if you have any questions about this change or how to activate your access to LinkedIn Learning.