LinkedIn Learning Reporting APIs provide key insights like course completions, user days active, learner logins and progress, to admins. These insights help organizations measure the effectiveness of their Learning and Development initiatives.
Below you can review some frequently-asked questions about Reporting APIs in LinkedIn Learning.
You’ll need to have a LinkedIn Learning enterprise license and admin access to provision the API keys. You don’t need to be have an LMS to use the Reporting API to query data.
You can obtain detailed instructions about retrieving Learning reports here. You can also check out the LinkedIn Learning Reporting API guide to get more information about this feature.
The Reporting API can be used to provide programmatic access to LinkedIn Learning reports. The most common use of the API is to bulk-import learner activity regularly.
Unlike the Reporting API, xAPI is used to push learner activity (like course completions) out to external systems as they happen. It is most commonly used to notify external Learning Management System when a LinkedIn Learning course has been completed.
While the Reporting API enables retrieving aggregated data, the xAPI only provides individual events.