LinkedIn Learning is now available for UFV employees to access.
LinkedIn Learning is an online learning platform that offers thousands of video courses on a variety of different topics taught by industry experts. This learning resource allows employees to access digital tutorials, courses, and curated learning paths to enhance their work performance and career development at no individual charge. UFV is pleased to offer employee access to LinkedIn Learning in 2024 as a one-year pilot program.
Getting Started
Activate your UFV LinkedIn Learning account
1. Activate: login with your UFV SSO and activate your new user account via either of these links:
https://myapps.microsoft.com/
https://www.linkedin.com/learning-login/
2. If you have an existing LinkedIn Account, and are prompted to enter a password, you will use your UFV username, but your personal LinkedIn password.
3. Connect: Connect your pre-existing LinkedIn Profile, if desired.
After logging in, enrolling in a course is easy. Just click play. Once you’ve chosen a course on the platform, you can access it on your desktop computer, smart phone or tablet, 24/7. You can also download your courses if you’re going to be accessing lessons without an internet connection.
Connecting your UFV LinkedIn Learning account to your personal LinkedIn profile
When you are activating your account for the first time, you will be prompted to connect your LinkedIn Learning account to your personal LinkedIn account – this step is optional and the choice is up to you. If you aren’t sure, you have the option to connect your profile at a later time, or if you change your mind, you can also disconnect your profiles at any time.
Benefits of connecting your profile:
• Easy access directly from LinkedIn.com
• Experience more personalized learning with recommendations based on your professional profile and what others in your role or industry are learning
• Keep learning top-of mind with high-quality, expert-led learning recommendations as you scroll down your newsfeed. One click and the course starts playing right in your newsfeed.
Benefits of LinkedIn Learning
• Unlimited access. Choose from thousands of instructional videos tutorials covering business, creative and technology topics.
• Personalized recommendations. Explore the most in-demand skills based on your experience with curated course recommendations from over 630+ million LinkedIn members.
• Expert instructors. Learn from industry leaders, all in one place.
• Convenient learning. Access courses on your schedule, from any desktop or mobile device.
• Helpful resources. Reinforce new knowledge with quizzes, exercise files and coding practice windows.
• Accessible language: learn in languages such as English, Bahasa Indonesian, Dutch, French, German, Italian and many others.
Privacy
• Whether or not you have connected your learning account to your LinkedIn.com profile, the following information is part of your UFV LinkedIn Learning account:
o Learning history.
o UFV employee information (name and business email
View the LinkedIn Learning privacy information, understand your privacy settings, info on managing Your Account and Privacy, and disconnecting your LinkedIn profile from your Learning license.
For more information, contact Tara Rozenek at tara.rozenek@ufv.ca.
02/29/2024