Objective, scope, and limitations:
This article aims to guide users through the setup and management of the integration with Coursera within the learning platform, available to clients who have purchased the corresponding licenses. Through step-by-step instructions and practical examples, it explains how to enable and leverage this feature to access Coursera’s course catalog from the LMS, thus optimizing the users’ learning experience.
Process:
To access the integrations settings, go to thegearicon at the top of the platform and select the“Integrations”option.
In this view, you will find the complete list of available extensions. From here, you canedit, activate, or deactivateeach integration as needed.
Among the available integrations, you will findCoursera, which allows access to a catalog of over12,000 courses, create learning paths, manage enrollments, and centralize reporting within the LMS.
🔐Important:To enable this integration, you must have an active Coursera license, purchased directly through Buk or previously managed via Coursera. This article describes the steps to follow if you purchased the license with Buk.
Once activation is confirmed by theImplementationorSACteam, you will be able to access and edit the integration.
If you purchased the licenses directly with Buk,no additional configuration is required: just verify that theConnection Statusappears as“Connected”in the extension’s edit view.
Additionally, you can enable the“Public instances”switch, which will allow all Coursera courses to be available in the search tool for collaborators with an active license.
Considerations when enabling or disabling public instances:
- If a coursehas no enrollmentsand has not been manually configured, it will be displayed according to the visibility defined in the“Integrations”section.
- If a coursealready has enrollmentsor was previously configured with a public instance, and then the visibility switch is disabled, that public instancewill not be deleted. Its previous state will be preserved.
“Coursera users” tab
Here you can see the list of users linked between Coursera and the LMS. For a collaborator to access a Coursera course from the LMS, they must have an active Coursera account with thesame email addressthey use in the LMS.
User and progress synchronization:
From this section, you can perform two key actions:
- Synchronize users:if you still do not see your collaborators with an active Coursera license in the LMS, you can force this synchronization.
- Synchronize progress:allows you to bring course progress from Coursera into the LMS. This synchronization is performed automatically every night, so there is no need to run it manually.
What happens if the integration is deactivated?
- All courses will no longer be visible to administrators and collaborators.
- Courses will disappear from active learning paths, generating a new version of each path with the changes applied. Enrolled participants will be automatically migrated to this new version (without the Coursera courses).
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Theinformation is not deleted, but access to Coursera content will be restricted.
Considerations:
- If collaborators receive error messages such as 'license dropped' or cannot access Coursera courses, this may be due to technical issues or the start/unlock dates scheduled by Coursera. In these cases, it is not necessary to contact Coursera support; it is recommended to wait for Coursera to enable access or for the issue to be resolved.
- Important: It is not possible to modify the start or unlock dates of courses or reassign licenses from Buk. These actions can only be managed directly by Coursera.
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