[OPLINTECH] LinkedIn Learning migrations week

[Don Yarman]

The migration made April's stats temporarily unavailable. We're working
with the company to get those restored. It may be awhile. I'm sorry for the
inconvenience.

                    Don Yarman
                    Director, Ohio Public Library Information Network
                    2323 W Fifth Ave Suite 130, Columbus OH 43204
                    don at oplin.ohio.gov | 614.728.5250


On Thu, May 6, 2021 at 10:58 AM Don Yarman <don at oplin.ohio.gov> wrote:

> At this point, more than half of Ohio's libraries have been migrated from
> Lynda.com to LinkedIn Learning for Library (LiLL), and we've learned a few
> things over the week.
>
> LinkedIn previously told us that migrations begin at 9:00 a.m. and last
> about two hours; we've been seeing that they can start much later in the
> day, and last longer than indicated. The best way for a library to track
> the change is to keep checking their existing Lynda portal link. When the
> migration is done, the Lynda portal will redirect to
> https://www.lynda.com/upgrade/completed, and the "Get Started" button
> will send users to your new LinkedIn Learning login page.
>
> LinkedIn told me today that it can take 24-48 hours *after* migration for
> user results to fully populate. (No one has reported that to us yet, but if
> you log into LinkedIn Learning and your learning history is empty, wait a
> couple days to see if it appears.) We've also learned that if someone had
> set up their new account in LiLL prior to migration, that won't prevent the
> Lynda history from being merged in, so that's nice.
>
> Getting into LiLL directly from a library's website is pretty
> straightforward, but alternative paths—a Google search, a MARC record
> loaded in the catalog, the general LinkedIn Learning page, or the LinkedIn
> Learning app—are more twisted. In that case, patrons are prompted to "Enter
> your Library ID." There's really no way for patrons to guess at that. It's
> going to be your library's federal identification number, the "oh####" that
> is at the end of your LiLL link. I'm hopeful that that process will get
> more smooth, but right now it's just not. It might be best to put
> instructions on your website to help patrons use the app.
>
> It's been a long project. Hang tight—we're almost through it.
>
>                     Don Yarman
>                     Director, Ohio Public Library Information Network
>                     2323 W Fifth Ave Suite 130, Columbus OH 43204
>                     don at oplin.ohio.gov | 614.728.5250
>
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