Coursera for Business Integration - Overview

The Cornerstone OnDemand and Coursera for business integration enables organizations to manage their Coursera content within the Cornerstone Learning Management System (LMS). With this integration, Coursera courses can be automatically synchronized to the LMS catalog, where they can be managed like other system training types.

The Coursera integration provides access to the following functionality:

  • Catalog Synchronization
    • Automatic daily synchronization of content from Coursera to the Learning Management System catalog (Coursera content is classified as online content in the catalog)
    • The synchronization captures all purchased content from Coursera
    • Synchronized content added to the catalog with a Provider of Coursera
    • Loaded Coursera content is mobile-ready
    • Administrators can manage loaded Coursera content in the same manner they manage other training in the Learning Management System (e.g., set availability, set keywords, add to a curriculum, assign training to a learner)
  • Content Launching
    • When a learner launches Coursera content from the Learning Management System, they are redirected to a Coursera pop-up window to complete the training, and no login is required
    • The learner’s training progress is recorded on their transcript page in the Learning Management System
  • Report Completion
    • The learner’s training progress is recorded on their transcript page in the Learning Management System
  • Single Sign-On (SSO)

    • The integration supports SMAL SSO implementation (IDP). No additional integration is required to enable the Cornerstone and Coursera for Business integration.

Considerations

The following considerations apply to this enhancement:

  • Content disablement is required if your Learning Management System contains existing Coursera content.
  • This integration is NOT a data-feed based integration.
  • If your organization has an existing integration with Coursera and would like to enable the new integration, contact both Cornerstone Global Customer Support and the Coursera team to disable the existing integration.

Training Launched from Integrated Provider's Site

Progress data for externally launched content is supported by the Cornerstone Connector that is utilised by edX for this integration, but as it stands this feature is not implemented by edX, and therefore it is not supported by the "edX for Business" integration.

  • Only the following two training statuses are supported by this behavior:
    • In Progress
    • Completed
  • A Completed status cannot be reverted back to an In Progress status. Any progress data communicated after the online content completion will update all values except completion status and completion date.

Implementation

For organizations using the Learning module, this integration can be self-enabled via the Edge Marketplace. The Cornerstone OnDemand and Coursera for Business integration is available for a cost. Please contact your Account Manager for additional information.

Permissions

The following existing permissions apply to this functionality:

PERMISSION NAME PERMISSION DESCRIPTION CATEGORY
Course Catalog - Update

Grants ability to manage and edit training items listed in the Course Catalog and also grants access to the Course Console, where training can also be managed and edited. This permission also grants access to the Popular Requests and Highest Rated widgets on the Learning Admin Console (in conjunction with the Learning Admin Console - View permission). This permission also allows administrators to reversion online courses via the Course Console page. This permission also allows administrators to access an Edit Training option for training items included as objectives in Development plans.

This permission can be constrained by OU, User's OU, Training Type, Training Item, Provider, ILT Provider, User's ILT Provider, User, User Self and Subordinates, and User's LO Availability. This is an administrator permission.

Note: Adding an OU constraint and a provider constraint to this permission results in an "AND" statement.

Learning - Administration
Edge Integrations - Manage Grants access to the Integrations service for Edge Integrate where the administrator can configure, enable, and disable their third-party integrations that are used within the Cornerstone system. This permission cannot be constrained. This is an administrator permission. Edge
Edge Marketplace - Manage Grants access to the Marketplace service for Edge Integrate where the administrator can browse and purchase integrations that can be used to extend the Cornerstone system. This permission cannot be constrained. This is an administrator permission. Edge