Add a Learning certificates to your
LinkedIn Profile
If you have a LinkedIn Profile you can add records of any LinkedIn Learning courses you have
completed to your profile so that prospective employers can see some of the skills you have acquired.
This works best if you are using a computer (laptop or desktop). To do this, you have to copy three
pieces of information from your LinkedIn Learning history into a form on your LinkedIn Profile.
Your LinkedIn Profile will be a personal account, separate from your University of Brighton LinkedIn
Learning account.
Step 1: Download the certificate
1 Sign into your
LinkedIn Learning
account
The quickest way to get to your
2 Click on the Me university LinkedIn Learning account is
button to reveal here:
your ‘My Learning’ http://brighton.ac.uk/LinkedInLearning
menu
3 Select Learning
History to display
a full list of the
courses you have
followed
For courses you have
completed you should
see a link to
Download certificate
4 Find one you want
to add to your
LinkedIn profile
and click
Download
certifcate
5 Save and/or open
the certificate
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Step 2: Collecting up the information you need
You need three pieces of information to add a certificate to your LinkedIn profile. You need:
The name of the course
The certificate number (Id)
The web address (url) of the course
It will make things easier if you copy all this info into a text file, or note, before you start adding the
certificate to your LinkedIn profile.
Open the certificate you just downloaded:
6 Select, by dragging over it, the course title – shown highlighted in yellow above.
7 Copy this selected text and paste it into a note or text file
For example, my course name is: Getting Started as a LinkedIn Learning Admin
8 Select the Certificate Id, also shown highlighted at the bottom of the certificate
9 Copy the Id and paste it into the text file/note
For example, my Certificate Id is AQ2vaTNjmdbRyTrX2WweBNe0IKmD
10 Now go back to your LinkedIn Learning history and find the course again
11 Click on the course name to open the course
12 Click on the Share button (top right of course window) and choose Twitter
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13 A new window will open
14 Select and copy the link that appears in the box
15 Paste this link into your text file, or note
For example, my course url looks like this: https://www.linkedin.com/learning/getting-started-as-a-
linkedin-learning-admin
16 You shouldn’t have anything after the end of the course name – delete extra text if necessary.
Step 3: Add the certificate to your LinkedIn profile
17 Sign in to your LinkedIn profile (this personal account is a separate account to your university
LinkedIn Learning account).
18 From the ‘Me’ menu, select View profile
19 Scroll down through your profile until you reach the section Licenses and Certifications
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20 Click the + symbol to add a new certificate
21 You are going to paste the three bits of information you copied into the form
22 Copy the name from the text file you
stored it in and paste it into Name -
the first box in the form
23 Type LinkedIn into Issuing
Organization box
24 Check the box This certification
does not expire
25 Copy and Paste your Certificate Id
into Credential ID
26 Copy and paste the link (url) you
copied from the Twitter share into
Credential URL
27 Click on Save
That should be it.
If someone, looking at your LinkedIn profile, clicks on the See credential link for this course, they
will be taken to the Welcome screen of the course and will find out what it covers.
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