Integrating Learning Core with third-party learning management systems

  • Release version: Yokohama
  • Updated January 30, 2025
  • 2 minutes to read
  • Connect your ServiceNow instance with third-party learning systems to pull learning content into a single repository.

    Before you begin

    Role required: learning_admin

    Activating the Learning Core (sn_lc) plugin automatically enables the following plugins:

    The following plugins are not active by default, and you must install them to use them with Learning Core.

    Procedure

    1. Integrate your ServiceNow instance with the third-party learning source account that you plan to use.
      Third-party content New and Updated Services synchronized
      Udemy
      • Courses
      • User activity
      Cornerstone
      • Users
      • Courses
      • User activity
      • Course assign service
      Pluralsight
      • Courses
      • Course progress such as percentage
      Sumtotal
      • Users
      • Courses
      • User activity
      • Assign course in Sumtotal
      Saba
      • Course assign service
      • Pull Courses from Saba
      • Sync Saba Users
      • Pull Saba User Course Activity
      Workday Learning
      • Users
      • Courses
      • User activity
      • Assign course in Workday Learning
    2. Activate the required schedule flow to synchronize third-party learning content into your ServiceNow instance.
      For more information, see Activate Learning Core flows.
    3. Configure the learning system with which you want to integrate your ServiceNow instance.
      For more information, see Configure a learning system.
      Note:
      Once you set up the Learning Core application, the source record for Cornerstone OnDemand, Pluralsight, and Udemy applications are automatically created in the Source module in Enterprise Service Management Integrations Framework. These source records contain a predefined set of properties and integration services. For more information, see Sources for Learning Core.
    4. Refresh the entire third-party content or synchronize new and updated service content into your ServiceNow instance.
      • To refresh the entire content, set the full_pull property to true.
        Note:
        When the schedule flow is run for the first time, it always is a full pull irrespective of the value set in the property.
      • To synchronize new and updated service content, set the full_pull property to false.
      1. Open any integration source for which you want to pull content.
      2. Click Run Job to manually synchronize data.
      The integration framework pulls the corresponding third-party learning courses into the Learning External Content [sn_lc_external_content] table on your ServiceNow instance.
      When synchronizing new and updated services, the content is populated as described in the table below.
      Table 1. Third-party content providers and corresponding services
      Third-party content New and Updated Services synchronized
      Udemy
      • Courses
      • User activity
      Cornerstone
      • Users
      • Courses
      • User activity
      • Course assign service
      Pluralsight
      • Courses
      • Course progress such as percentage
      Sumtotal
      • Users
      • Courses
      • User activity
      • Assign course in Sumtotal
      Saba
      • Course assign service
      • Pull Courses from Saba
      • Sync Saba Users
      • Pull Saba User Course Activity
      Workday Learning
      • Users
      • Courses
      • User activity
      • Assign course in Workday Learning
      SuccessFactors Learning spoke
      • Retrieve learning information
      • User data
      • Course data
      • Sync user activity

    What to do next

    To integrate Learning Core with a new third-party learning system, follow the instructions in Create a source for a learning system.