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What Is Coursera Career Academy?

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Coursera is an online learning platform that partners with companies like Google, Adobe, Microsoft, ADP, and many more to offer badges and certificates in the skills that today's employers are looking for. Through a series of asynchronous online courses, learners can earn certificates in subjects from program management to digital marketing and e-commerce, cybersecurity, and game design.

Career Academy courses are 100% free for Southern Miss students, faculty, and staff, and for members of our Alumni Association.

To browse the full catalog of Coursera Career Academy, click below.

What are micro-credentials?

Micro-credentials are certificates you can earn testifying to your proficiency in a certain area. They are a great way to show prospective employers the skills and knowledge you bring with you to a new position. In addition, companies often give preference to applicants who have already completed the certificates the company offers through Coursera.

88%

of employers believe a Professional Certificate helps a candidate stand out*

72%

of employers say they are more likely to hire a candidate with a Professional Certificate*

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of employers are using or considering moving toward a skill-based hiring approach*

* Advancing Higher Education with Industry Micro-Credentials, Coursera, 2023

What are the benefits?

Resume Earn valuable micro-credentials that you can add to your resume to demonstrate your skills.
Resume Courses are online, so you can learn at your own pace on your own time.
Employment Opportunities Increase your employment opportunities by learning the skills that today's employers are looking for.

How are the courses structured?

Course are composed of modules that can be completed entirely online. Modules may contain videos, readings, assignments, quizzes, discussion prompts, and peer reviews. Each module includes an estimate of the time each component will take to complete. Courses are asynchronous, so you can learn at your own pace. At the successful completion of a course, you will be awarded a certificate that can be added to your resume.

How do I sign up?

To sign up for Career Academy courses, you'll need to fill out and submit a short form. We'll add you to the list, and you should have access to any course within Career Academy within 48 hours.

Look for a welcome e-mail from Coursera to let you know when you can start learning!  Once you receive the Coursera invitation, you鈥檒l need to set up your account by logging in with your firstname.lastname@usm.edu email credentials. We have single-sign on access with Coursera, the same ones you use with SOAR and Canvas, but using your firstname.lastname@usm.edu email address as your login. Once logged in, you should see the USM logo on the top banner.

Featured Professional Certificates

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Google AI

Google logoThe Google AI Professional Certificate takes you beyond foundational understanding to becoming AI-fluent. Designed by Google experts, this program gets you hands-on experience building the AI skills that employers are looking for.

Microsoft Product Management

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Launch your Product Manager career with Microsoft. Learn in-demand market research skills and become a job-ready Product Manager in less than 3 months. No degree or experience required.

 

Adobe logoAdobe Marketing Specialist 

Designed for aspiring marketing specialists, this course covers digital marketing strategy, brand identity, content planning, and campaign performance analysis. You鈥檒l gain practical experience with Adobe tools and walk away with a polished portfolio and certificate to prove your skills.

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NASM Personal Fitness Trainer

Build the foundational knowledge you need to begin helping others live healthier, more active lives.

HRCI Human Resource Associate

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This program is uniquely designed to prepare aspiring Human Resource professionals. Through engaging videos, interactive activities, assessments, and peer-reviewed projects, you can enhance your professional expertise and gain a solid understanding of the fundamentals in this field.

IBM AI Product Manager

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This program will teach you the fundamental principles of product management from understanding roles and responsibilities to navigating the entire lifecycle and associated artifacts from product idea to launch. This program will not only help you start your career in product management, but also provides a strong foundation for future career development in other paths such as healthcare, finance, logistics, e-commerce, and cybersecurity.

Johns Hopkins Medical Office Manager

Johns Hopkins Medicine logoBecome a skilled medical office manager. Gain essential skills to manage healthcare practices in 6 months or less. No prior experience or degree needed to start your career as a medical office manager.

Amazon Junior Software Developer

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Launch your career as a Junior Software Developer. Build job-ready skills for an in-demand career in software development in as little as 4 months. No prior experience or degree required to get started.

IBM Data Analyst

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Data analysis is the process of collecting, storing, modeling, and analyzing data that can inform executive decision-making, and the demand for skilled data analysts has never been greater. In this program, you鈥檒l learn in-demand skills like Python, Excel, and SQL to get job-ready in as little as 4 months.

Epic Games Game Design 

EPIC Games logoLearn to create worlds that captivate and inspire while building in-demand skills with the foundations for game design with Unreal Engine. No prior experience required.

Frequently Asked Questions

STUDENTS

91少女集中营鈥檚 Coursera Career Academy gives eligible students access to online, career-focused learning through Coursera. Through Career Academy, learners can explore entry-level career paths and enroll in selected Professional Certificates designed by leading companies.

These certificate programs help learners build job-relevant skills through a series of courses and hands-on activities. Many programs are designed to support career exploration, skill development, and portfolio building in fields such as business, technology, data, marketing, project management, and more.

Yes. If you access Coursera through the University of Southern Mississippi鈥檚 Career Academy or university-sponsored learning program, eligible learners can enroll in available Career Academy content at no additional cost.

To make sure you are enrolling for free, you should access courses through the university鈥檚 Career Academy page or learning program rather than browsing Coursera separately.

In most cases, you should sign into Career Academy using SSO and then contact to merge your personal and university-sponsored accounts together.  When contacting Coursera鈥檚 Support Team, please tell them that you have a university-sponsored account through University of Southern Mississippi and that you would like to merge your personal account with your sponsored account. Your USM email address (firstname.lastname@usm.edu)  Coursera will likely need to share both email addresses associated with the accounts with the support team member. 

Yes, it is important to enroll through the University of Southern Mississippi鈥檚 Career Academy learning program or through Canvas if you professor is using Coursera in their course because access this way is covered by the university. 

USM鈥檚 Career Academy page is designed to help you discover certificates by career interest and see curated options available through the university program. If you enroll outside the university-sponsored catalog, you may not receive free access to that content.

After you complete all required courses and assessments in a Professional Certificate, you will earn a shareable digital certificate from Coursera.

You can use your certificate to:

  • Add it to your resume
  • Share it on LinkedIn
  • Include it in job applications
  • Highlight your skills in internship or career conversations

Completing a certificate can also help you identify next learning steps if you want to continue building skills in a related field.

Once you鈥檙e logged in, check for the USM logo at the top banner - that鈥檚 how you鈥檒l know you鈥檙e in the right place. If you find yourself in a space where you鈥檙e asked to pay for a course, you鈥檝e likely navigated away from the USM Coursera Career Academy content.

When returning to USM Coursera, make sure you with the 鈥淯niversity of Southern Mississippi鈥 or 鈥渟ign in with your organization." Do not sign back into the general Coursera website.

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FACULTY

You can enroll students automatically by using the Coursera LTI integration with Canvas. When a learner launches Coursera through the Canvas for the first time, Coursera creates an account using the email address provided by Canvas during the integration flow. If the learner has an existing Coursera account that uses the same Canvas email address, the enrollment is linked to their existing account. No new Coursera account will be created.

If you are using Coursera outside of the LTI integration with Canvas, you can enroll your students directly from your learning program in Coursera. To create a learning program for your class, complete the .

A Learning Program is your custom space (like a Canvas shell) in Coursera where you manage both the who (learners) and the what (assigned content) for your course or group.

At USM, a Learning Program lets you:

  • Invite learners 鈥 Add student emails or enable self-enrollment with 鈥渦sm.edu鈥
  • Assign content 鈥 Choose courses, modules, guided projects, or Professional Certificates
  • Set parameters 鈥 Control start/end dates, credit/no-credit, and auto-enroll
  • Track progress 鈥 View dashboards, export gradebooks, and monitor completion rate

Why it matters: A Learning Program centralizes your class鈥檚 Coursera experience鈥攎aking it easier to deliver content, track learning, and connect coursework to industry-recognized skills.

You can integrate Coursera content and industry credentials into your classes by using the Coursera LTI integration with Canvas. You can link an entire Coursera professional certificate, course, module, assignment, or video into your Canvas courses using the integration. 

Please refer to the following resources on how you can get started with the integration.

  • on how to link different types of Coursera content
  • on how to link different types of Coursera content 
  • with instructions, an FAQ, and troubleshooting guide.
There are different grade sync options available to you depending on the type of content that you link in your Canvas course. Most instructors link a full Coursera course with final grade sync, where a single, cumulative course grade is sent to the LMS gradebook as a single line item. You can see a full overview of the types of grade sync options available in . 

If you have technical questions about the Coursera LTI integration please go to the Admin Help Center, log into Coursera if you are not already logged in, and click 鈥淐ontact Us鈥 in the upper right-hand corner to contact Coursera鈥檚 Support Team. When filling out the form, please cc Joanne.TranFREEMississippi & tweston@coursera.org. Please include a detailed description of what support you need and screenshots if applicable. 

If you or your students have general technical questions about the Coursera platform, please contact Coursera鈥檚 Learner Support Team. Live chat is available if you or your student is logged into Coursera on the . If you are unable to log in, you can use this . Please tell Coursera鈥檚 Support Team that you have an university-sponsored account through 91少女集中营, and share a detailed description of your issue. 

Canvas Integration Resources

Coursera Video Tutorials

Short video tutorials on selecting and embedding Coursera content into Canvas courses, including walkthroughs of grade sync options.

Step-by-Step Guide

View a step-by-step Canvas guide for faculty on embedding content.

Online Office Hours

Coursera鈥檚 Customer Success team hosts online Curriculum Integration Office Hours Wednesdays 11am-12pm Central time throughout the summer for faculty and instructional staff. .

Industry Test Prep

Did you know? Coursera also offers industry test-prep exams and materials for students! 

Learn more about Test Prep

 

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