GoTo Live: Getting Started with GoTo Live Training Integration

Learn how to integrate your GoTo accounts with Skilljar and how to create live training events within courses. 

Linking Your GoTo Accounts with Skilljar

To begin your integration, you’ll need to have login information in GoTo for each instructor you'd like to link to your Skilljar account. 

1. Log into your Skilljar Dashboard account. 

2. Go to the GoTo settings page: https://dashboard.skilljar.com/goto/ - here you will link each of your instructor's GoTo accounts with Skilljar. 

3. Click on Add Instructor and select GoToMeeting, GoToWebinar (will also allow access to GoToWebcast), or GoToTraining. You'll be prompted to enter your user name and password, or if you're already logged in, it will automatically be added for you. If you are asked to allow Skilljar to access your GoToTraining account, click Approve. 
   
   

4. Once you have authenticated someone for one GoTo product, you can authenticate them for another with one click while you are logged in with their account.

   Example:  I just authenticated Andy for GoToTraining, following steps 1 through 4.  I can authenticate them for GoToMeeting in one step by clicking “Connect to GoToMeeting”.
   
   
5. You will see the instructors/accounts get added to the appropriate section Setting on the page (Meeting, Webinar or Training), as seen below. 
   
   

6. To add additional instructors, click one of the “Logout of GoTo” buttons and repeat steps 1 through 5.

   • Note:  Even if you have added an instructor to both GoToTraining and GoToMeeting, you only need to logout once. Repeat the above steps for each instructor you'd like to add. 
7. Note: If you change a password for a GoTo account that is linked with Skilljar, please re-authenticate the account within Skilljar.    

Your GoTo account(s) should now be connected and you're ready to begin creating GoTo events from within Skilljar. 

Creating a GoTo Live Training Event in a Course

Once you’ve linked your GoToMeeting, Webinar, or Training account to Skilljar, you can begin creating events from within the Live Training section of the Dashboard. 

To create a Live Training lesson:

1. Navigate to Course Management
2. Select the course in which you want to provide a live training
3. Select "New lesson" and choose: Live Training
4. Input your lesson details and click "Save"
5. Click "New event" and select the GoTo event type. Then enter the location, start and end times, available seats, instructor name, and description.
   
   
   
   
6. The Instructor field will take freeform entry with "instructor name <email address>" and it will present a dropdown with previously entered names or Instructors available from your authenticated GoTo instructors list:
   
   
   
   
7. Click "Save"
8. Optional: If you want to show a specific Live Training lesson's event date/times on your Course Detail page (seen to user pre-registration), scroll down to expand settings, check "Show on Detail Page" and "Save Lesson." See below for how this appears to users.
   
   

You can now add multiple occurrences of your event, which upon save, will all be unique training events on the same lesson. To learn how to manage, clone, and edit your events, visit Managing Live Training Events.

Note - these events are NOT related after they are created. At this time, each event created this way is independent and the lesson will complete when the student attends any of the events on this lesson.

Note on Reminder Emails:

To date, GoTo products do not provide a way to turn off reminder emails to registrants on the account level or via integration. You can turn them off for each event within the GoTo product to avoid sending registrants additional emails.  

For more information on Managing Live Training, please visit this article.

Will Skilljar notify instructors when added to a Live Training Lesson? 

There is an option in the Lesson Settings that, when enabled (default behavior is enabled), will send a notification to Instructors letting them know that they have been added to a Live Training Event or if any changes are made to that event. See setting for ‘Email Instructor When Added to Event And For Event Updates.

To navigate there: Course Management > Course > Curriculum > Live Training Lesson > Lesson Settings