Claude AI Fundamentals Course: Practical AI for Beginners
Taught by Hosna Kachooee
Learn how to prompt Claude effectively, research and organize information, work with Projects and Artifacts, and build practical AI workflows.
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See all plans & lifetime →What you'll learn
- Navigate Claude and set up your account
- Understand what makes Claude different from other AI assistants
- Choose the right Claude plan for your needs
- Understand tokens and context windows
- Write clear and effective prompts
- Give Claude useful context
- Use constraints to control AI responses
- Refine prompts and improve results through iteration
- Avoid common prompting mistakes
- Research topics more efficiently with Claude
- Summarize and work with documents
- Brainstorm ideas and solve problems
- Plan projects and tasks
- Organize ongoing work using Projects
- Create interactive Artifacts
- Explore Claude's design capabilities
- Understand and use Skills
- Explore Connectors and Tasks
- Build a complete interactive AI project
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About The Course
Claude can help you research, write, organize information, solve problems, and manage everyday tasks, but getting consistently useful results requires more than simply asking questions. This beginner-friendly course teaches you how to use Claude effectively and turn it into a practical AI assistant for work, learning, and productivity.
You'll begin by getting comfortable with the platform, learning what makes Claude different, how to choose the right plan, and how to navigate its interface. You'll also understand important AI concepts such as tokens, context windows, and Projects, giving you a clearer picture of how Claude processes information and maintains context.
From there, you'll develop one of the most valuable skills for working with AI: effective prompting. You'll learn how to write clear instructions, provide the right context, set useful constraints, refine responses, and avoid common mistakes. Rather than searching for a single "perfect prompt," you'll learn how to work iteratively with Claude to improve your results.
Once you understand the fundamentals, you'll apply them to everyday tasks. You'll use Claude to research topics, summarize documents, brainstorm ideas, solve problems, and plan projects and tasks, helping you save time while producing more structured and useful work.
You'll also learn how to use Claude beyond standard conversations. The course covers Projects for organizing ongoing work, Artifacts for creating interactive content, Claude's design capabilities, reusable Skills, and features such as Connectors and Tasks that extend what you can accomplish with the platform.
To bring everything together, you'll build a complete interactive study guide with Claude. You'll plan the project, research and organize the information, create the experience, test the results, and make improvements. You'll then use the same process to design an AI workflow suited to your own needs.
Whether you want to use AI for your job, studies, personal projects, or everyday productivity, this course gives you a structured foundation for working with Claude confidently and effectively.
Curriculum
5 sections · 3 hours of content
1 Getting Started with Claude 5 lessons
- Introduction & What You'll Build
- What Makes Claude Different?
- Creating Your Account & Choosing the Right Plan
- Navigating the Claude Interface
- Understanding Tokens, Context Windows & Projects
2 Prompting Essentials 4 lessons
- Writing Better Prompts
- Giving Claude Context
- Using Constraints & Refinement
- Prompting Best Practices & Common Mistakes
3 Everyday Productivity 4 lessons
- Research Faster with Claude
- Summarizing Documents
- Brainstorming Ideas & Solving Problems
- Planning Projects and Tasks
4 Claude's Core Features 5 lessons
- Working with Projects
- Creating Interactive Artifacts
- Introduction to Claude Design
- Skills
- Connectors and Tasks
5 Final Project - Interactive Study Guide 5 lessons
- Planning the Study Guide
- Researching and Organizing Information
- Creating and Testing
- Class Project: Create Your AI Workflow
- Congratulations! What's Next?
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