How To Get 5 Months of LinkedIn Learning and LinkedIn Premium for Free? — 2021

Roshan Poudel
Better Interpreneur
4 min readJun 14, 2019

LinkedIn Learning is one of the best learning platforms I have found on the Internet. Whether it is a technology-related or personal development tutorial, it comes always handy.

LinkedIn Learning contains a variety of video courses from basic ‘How to use’ to ‘How to design and develop’, like Project Management Foundations, Excel 2020 Essential Training, Customer Service Foundations, Photoshop CC 2018 One-on-One: Fundamentals, Premiere Pro CC 2019 Essential Training: The Basics, Introduction to Web Design and Development, Learning Video Production and Editing, Photography Foundations, Programming Foundations: Fundamentals, Learning Python, WordPress 5 Essential Training, Advance Your Skills in Deep Learning and Neural Networks, Become a Cloud Developer, Become a Certified Information Security Manager and many more.

You can find many premium courses on a different topic in LinkedIn Learning, however, you need a subscription to access these courses. You don’t have to worry as this article will explain ‘how to get them for free’.

Now, Let’s get to the point, ‘How to get 5 months of LinkedIn Learning for free?’. You will get 5 months of free access by following the below methods, and you will need to follow these methods in a sequence as mentioned below to get the full benefit.

Note: If you have access to LinkedIn learning, you will also get the LinkedIn Premium feature. Similarly, If you have a LinkedIn Premium subscription, you will get access to LinkedIn Learning.

Method 1: 1-month Free LinkedIn Learning

Step 1: Go to LinkedIn Learning here.

Step 2: Take one month of LinkedIn Learning free trial by clicking ‘Start my free month’.

Step 3: Now, select ‘Try for free’ under the ‘Premium’ column.

Step 4: Proceed by using a LinkedIn account. You will also need to enter your payment detail for verification purposes.

Step 5: Now, you have 1 month of free LinkedIn Learning access, and you will get 1 month of LinkedIn Premium with this.

Method 2: 3-month Free LinkedIn Learning

Update: Microsoft has updated Dev Essentials LinkedIn Learning benefit. And now, instead of 3-month, you will get only 1-month for free from this method.

After using LinkedIn Learning for one month from method 1, use this method which will provide you additional months of free access to LinkedIn Learning, also opens the gate to an additional 1-month of LinkedIn Learning.

Step 1: Go to Microsoft Visual Studio Dev Essentials here, and join it by clicking ‘Join or access now’.

Step 2: Now, proceed to registration using a Microsoft account. Create a Microsoft account if you don’t already have one.

Step 3: Click on ‘Get Code’ of the LinkedIn Learning box.

Step 4: Click on the Activate.

Step 5: Now, click on ‘Activate your offer.’

Step 6: That’s it. You have activated LinkedIn Learning for three months.

Method 3: 1-month Free LinkedIn Learning

After your premium subscription is over from the above methods, wait for some week, you’ll get an offer to reactivate one month of LinkedIn Premium for free.

You will get this offer on your email as well as on the LinkedIn profile. Now, click the “Reactive Premium for Free” or “Reactivate Free Trial”, and complete the process. This will activate the 1-month of LinkedIn Premium and LinkedIn learning for free.

Extra month of LinkedIn Learning for free

LinkedIn provides one month of free trial every 12 months, so you can get one month of free LinkedIn Learning and LinkedIn Premium in every 12 months.

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