Track LinkedIn Learning with Watershed

Use Watershed to monitor LinkedIn Learning course trends and usage, highlight popular content, and track completion times.

Connect LinkedIn Learning with Watershed to get enhanced insights into how your content is being used. You can monitor who is accessing and completing LinkedIn Learning courses, discover usage trends, highlight popular content, and even compare course length estimates with how long people actually take to finish them.

Watershed lets you combine your LinkedIn Learning data with HRIS data, allowing you to see organizational trends, right through to individual learner records. It’s a great way to maximize your return on investment.

All our dashboards are easy to use and can be fully configured to each job role.You empower your people to make data-driven learning and development decisions by giving them the data they need, in a format they understand.

And the more data sources you add, the more comprehensive view of learning performance across the entire ecosystem.

Get a deeper understanding of content usage with utilization and completion insights.

Watershed lets you track how often people use LinkedIn Learning to monitor program progress and completions. You can explore:

Learning Content

See which courses, categories, subcategories, and instructors are most popular and engaging to share further and promote them.

Completion Rates

Monitor trends in course completion rates. Identify and promote courses with high completions or modify or remove courses with low completions.

Skills

Linkedin Learning courses are tagged with skills—such as finance or project management. This means you can monitor and compare the number of course completions associated with different skills.

Learning Content

See which courses, categories, subcategories, and instructors are most popular and engaging to share further and promote them.

Completion Rates

Monitor trends in course completion rates. Identify and promote courses with high completions or modify or remove courses with low completions.

Skills

Linkedin Learning courses are tagged with skills—such as finance or project management. This means you can monitor and compare the number of course completions associated with different skills.

Compare course length estimates against actual time spent.

LinkedIn Learning courses include estimated duration times so people can plan around their learning needs. But these estimates are only helpful if they are accurate.

Use Watershed to evaluate estimated completion times against your learners' actual time to complete a course. Use this analysis to identify any content with a significant variation in estimated versus actual time to complete for further review. These insights also help learners set realistic expectations around how long courses take to finish.

Measure learning’s impact on the business.

Tracking completions is great, but is the learning having a tangible impact on helping people progress and addressing the organization's needs?

Find out by combining your LinkedIn Learning completion data with an employee survey, job performance, and business metric data.

Drill down through your organization hierarchy with HRIS integration.

Use Watershed to combine HRIS data with LinkedIn Learning data to gain deeper analytics and insights that explore how different parts of your organization use LinkedIn Learning. This means you can:

  • Present managers with filtered views that only show data about their people, including lists of people who haven’t completed the required training.
  • Compare LinkedIn Learning usage by department to identify parts of the organization where uptake is low.
  • Control data permissions to ensure people can only see the data they are permitted to see.

How do I convince my stakeholders?

The enhanced insights you get from connecting Watershed with LinkedIn Learning allow you to improve your learning programs and learners' experience continuously.

However, we know that getting buy-in from stakeholders can be challenging. That’s why we’ve put this handy guide together to get you moving:

Prove Learning’s Value: Making the Business Case for Learner Analytics

How does Watershed work with LinkedIn Learning?

The Watershed-Linkedin Learning connector brings live and historical data into Watershed. You can analyze this data in reports and dashboards alongside data from other sources or on its own.

What data is included?

Data captured by LinkedIn Learning and imported into Watershed includes:

  • Course metadata—such as course length, number of items in the course, category and subcategory, instructor name, link to the course thumbnail, and more.
  • Completion of videos within courses.
  • Course start, progress, and completion. This includes data on enrollment date, whether the course is assigned and by whom, and time taken to complete.

While our implementation team will take care of all of the details when importing your Linkedin Learning data into our learning record store, you may find this eGuide helpful:

How to Get Meaningful Insights from Your Learning Ecosystem: A complete guide to L&D data requirements

How do I get started?

Talk to your Watershed account manager to turn on the connector. This doesn’t require development, so you can quickly start using your LinkedIn Learning data. Or if you’re not already a Watershed customer, contact us for a demo.

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