Roman Koshykar: Hello this is Roman kasha car or 80s Computing and Information Sciences librarian.
Roman Koshykar: And this is the first in our level up virtual series. So welcome to the virtual audience, whoever may be
Roman Koshykar: Watching this session. These are meant to be a series of relatively brief sessions on things that the library can provide for you that you may not know about already.
Roman Koshykar: That we hope that they're new to you that they're not the same old this is how you get a journal article. This is how you find an E book. These are, these are some of the other more unique things that we offer. And today's session is about our subscription to LinkedIn learning
Roman Koshykar: And if you can see on the shared screen I have the LinkedIn learning homepage up here. Of course it's inviting you to start a free month or buy for your team. But the good news is, as an alrighty student you
Roman Koshykar: Are able to use LinkedIn learning at no cost to yourself what is LinkedIn learning what offers video courses on a number of topics, find the right over 15,000 courses dozens of new ones added each week.
Roman Koshykar: Topics. This is not even close to a comprehensive list. These are just some of the popular topics, project management programming languages illustration spreadsheets data analysis. So,
Roman Koshykar: What can you use LinkedIn learning for. Well, one of the things that we found, often in the years that we've offered this LinkedIn learning subscription is that
Roman Koshykar: You can learn lessons using LinkedIn learning that you end up using in your courses, many faculty will post a LinkedIn learning content.
Roman Koshykar: To my courses as a an assignment for you to learn on your own time and then come to class prepared to work on a particular topic or in a particular application.
Roman Koshykar: So as just an example. You can be assigned to watch a LinkedIn learning course by following the links from my courses to get training on how to use a particular software application.
Roman Koshykar: And that can be watched in LinkedIn learning and then you can come to class ready to work, hands on with that application. There are many examples of our it faculty
Roman Koshykar: doing just that, but you're certainly not limited in this way you can learn on your own time. There are many topics that are not covered in class in any of your classes that can be found in LinkedIn learning
Roman Koshykar: These range from things like learning new professional skills, those soft skills that employers really desire, things like certification exam preparation. If you're preparing to
Roman Koshykar: Get some sort of a credentialing for a position that you may be applying for, and many, many things related to career development.
Roman Koshykar: Outside again of the skills that you're learning in class it's preparing you on how to be an employee. Eventually, after you graduate from our it so take advantage of using LinkedIn learning
Roman Koshykar: When you are a
Roman Koshykar: An alrighty student. So we have a couple of ways to get at this and I will show you the preferred method.
Roman Koshykar: Particularly the very first time that you log in to set up your LinkedIn learning at alrighty account, but first I want to tell you all about a very important web guide.
Roman Koshykar: On our info guide site. There is an accessing LinkedIn learning at our it site and we will also have our own level of virtual guide page.
Roman Koshykar: That will have a link to here as well as where you'll find the link to this recording
Roman Koshykar: So that will be there for you to use at any time. It has all of the instructions on how to get started. And we'll go back and refer to this again.
Roman Koshykar: Later in today's presentation, but primarily what you want to do is access LinkedIn learning through our library website. And to do that, at the alrighty library's website switch the search to databases.
Roman Koshykar: And you can type in type in LinkedIn or LinkedIn learning. Either one will work.
Roman Koshykar: And that gives you a properly authenticated link that will go through our IITs single sign on.
Roman Koshykar: And this is what you really want to use so clicking that link takes you to the alrighty login screen and then I
Roman Koshykar: Don't have any kind of a test account. So I actually have to log in with my own alrighty account. Now, the very first time you do this if you haven't already done this, you will have a LinkedIn learning account created on the alrighty subscription, that is tied to your username and password.
Roman Koshykar: So that's great momentarily. I just want to go back to the
Roman Koshykar: Last my info guides page here.
Roman Koshykar: Somehow I lost the info guides page, which is very important. I just wanted to point out that there are many more details about how to
Roman Koshykar: sign in and register here. There is also a quick access to LinkedIn learning, if you're ready, start here. That's that same link that goes to the alrighty login screen.
Roman Koshykar: And there's also instructions access from our it websites, go to the library website. If you're a student or faculty member
Roman Koshykar: Access from the product website, there's some special considerations there.
Roman Koshykar: And then the last thing I want to draw your attention to, before we actually begin working in the LinkedIn learning environment itself, there are mobile apps for Android and iOS devices.
Roman Koshykar: That you can install and connect to your it subscription this way and have LinkedIn learning with you wherever you go. So there's some step by step instructions on how to do that. So the, the mobile apps have proven to be very useful for students in the past as well.
Roman Koshykar: Alright so here I am logged into LinkedIn learning
Roman Koshykar: To find and manage content in here. You can search for anything you want. And it's remembered some previous searches that I've done, but I want to draw your attention to the Browse menu browse by three main big categories. The three main categories are business creative
Roman Koshykar: And technology. So that gives you a sense of what kinds of information and what kinds of lessons can be found just by looking at those three main categories and each one of these categories is further subdivided
Roman Koshykar: Into subjects software and learning paths. So under business. The subjects would be topics like career development software, things like Excel and google google analytics.
Roman Koshykar: learning paths may be something that's less self explanatory, a learning path is a curated collection created by the people at LinkedIn.
Roman Koshykar: That provides a series of courses, some of them spanning many, many hours cumulatively cumulatively on how to become a small business owner or something else. And as you've seen, also the creative category also has subjects video photography graphic design software.
Roman Koshykar: You'll find things like
Roman Koshykar: Illustrator, InDesign Photoshop and learning paths become a motion graphics artist become a video editor.
Roman Koshykar: Technology, the same thing. The subjects here would be kind of what you might expect software development it mobile development.
Roman Koshykar: And so on. And again, I would expect that for some of you, you would find things that relate to your courses in here. But for others, you would find things that you would not learn
Roman Koshykar: In the courses, you're taking it alrighty software. Again, Java, Python SQL learning paths. Again, those curated collections that provide
Roman Koshykar: Sequential courses within the LinkedIn learning system that allow you to
Roman Koshykar: Train yourself on how to become a full stack web developer become a data scientist some great content here can be found and it's all available to you for as long as you are in our it students. Now, that is something I do want to re emphasize
Roman Koshykar: Current students have access to LinkedIn learning this does not carry over after you graduate.
Roman Koshykar: Other features that you can find in here under it says me your profile. So I have not connected a LinkedIn profile. So it's a little bit generic if you do connect a LinkedIn profile, this will actually look like your profile picture.
Roman Koshykar: But it says that I myself. I'm from Rochester Institute of Technology. That's my organization. And then my learning has a lot of really useful things here.
Roman Koshykar: Anything that I have in progress that I have started but not finished is saved here so I can go back and keep going from where I left off. I can save courses.
Roman Koshykar: That I want to
Roman Koshykar: Go and watch from start to finish, or even jump into and look at different parts of and I believe you can even save a single video lesson from within a course that just focuses in on that one thing that you need five minutes of explanation on. So here are some courses that I've saved.
Roman Koshykar: For myself, and you can also personalize by looking at skills that you're interested in.
Roman Koshykar: So that's it says skills under your profile here, but it's really skills that you're interested in. So I've added personal development, but I could add
Roman Koshykar: Leadership or databases or design or even get really specific, say I want to be the Microsoft Excel expert in my organization, I can add Microsoft Excel Excel.
Roman Koshykar: What happens then is that LinkedIn learning will begin to recommend new and existing courses, based on the combination of skills that you've identified. So there's a lot that you can, and there are many others to you can find others that don't show up as suggestions.
Roman Koshykar: And you can also in your learning history, you can look at the courses that you have completed entirely from start to finish. And in that case, you can
Roman Koshykar: Because it's completed. You can also download a certificate of completion as well.
Roman Koshykar: Not seeing that right here.
Roman Koshykar: History. Yeah.
Roman Koshykar: So unfortunately, you'll
Jennifer Freer: Find it it's under the More button.
Jennifer Freer: Go down
Jennifer Freer: Into the course.
Jennifer Freer: Go to the right. Yes, all the way
Roman Koshykar: Oh, it's hidden by zoom. There we go. Download certificate. My apologies. Thank you so much, Jen. There it is. And it was just hidden simply by my zoom window. And that's why I wasn't able to find it. So here I can go download the certificate and prove that I've completed a course on a particular
Roman Koshykar: Topic.
Roman Koshykar: You can also create collections. So LinkedIn provides those learning paths. Those curated collections. You can build your own
Roman Koshykar: So you can add a create a new collection, call it whatever you want and add any number of courses or even individual videos to your liking, as well. So I mentioned also that I have not done this myself. But it is possible to connect your personal LinkedIn profile. Now, it's important to
Roman Koshykar: To access your alrighty account first so that that gets set up and then once you have done that. I'm back on the info guides page.
Roman Koshykar: I have instructions here using a LinkedIn account. You're not required to have a LinkedIn profile to use our 80s institutional subscription. If you do have a LinkedIn profile. And I know that many of our students do
Roman Koshykar: You can connect the LinkedIn Lord learning courses you completed through our it to your personal LinkedIn profile. Why would you want to do this. I think it's pretty self explanatory.
Roman Koshykar: You advertise the skills you've learned to potential employers, you can display those completed certificates on your LinkedIn profile.
Roman Koshykar: And you can, to a certain extent recommend courses to your LinkedIn contacts, although that is a little bit limited use because any non alrighty contacts that see those recommendations will actually be allowed to use our subscription.
Roman Koshykar: So that's maybe kind of a half a benefit, but I think those other benefits are really useful. So instructions are here first login through the organizational subscription then connect your personal LinkedIn profile and
Roman Koshykar: And then anytime you sign into your LinkedIn profile you can actually click on learning in the upper right hand corner, and you'll go through that login
Roman Koshykar: And then you'll get to watch whatever courses you want so it provides an easy, maybe even more convenient method of access to the courses that you have then going to the library web page and looking in the database finder.
Roman Koshykar: So I don't believe that will have any live questions today. But that's really
Roman Koshykar: The basics of
Roman Koshykar: Using the LinkedIn learning system at our it please go to the info guides page.
Roman Koshykar: For all of these instructions as well. There are also instructions on how to link directly to a course if you do want to share it say with group members that you're working on a group project with
Roman Koshykar: As long as there are it students as you are, then you can do that. And again, the mobile apps have been very convenient and the instructions here on how to
Roman Koshykar: Activate your
Roman Koshykar: LinkedIn learning
Roman Koshykar: With your LinkedIn profile which I know that a lot of students REALLY APPRECIATE BEING ABLE TO DO THAT AND
Roman Koshykar: Really kind of marketing themselves as having learned additional skills outside of the classroom. So thank you for your attention and please don't hesitate to contact the librarian. So you can contact
Roman Koshykar: Me by clicking on chat email appointments and if I'm offline, then you can chat with a librarian who is on duty at any time for quick questions we're available by email, we're available by appointment as well so
Roman Koshykar: That's all I have to say about the the basics of getting into LinkedIn learning. And I think once you get into it, you'll really find that there is just a tremendous amount that you can learn here.