Learn what AI is, how to write clear prompts, and how to use AI assistants for study, work and creative projects safely, honestly and with good judgement.
Artificial intelligence (AI) tools can now write, explain, translate, summarise and draw in seconds. Used well, they are like a patient helper who is available at any hour. Used badly, they can spread mistakes, expose private information or tempt people into cheating.
This course is for complete beginners. You will learn in plain words what AI is and is not, how to talk to an AI assistant so that it gives useful answers, and how to check what it tells you. You will practise with real tasks: studying, writing a CV, planning a small business, making a poster caption and more.
We keep tool names general (for example AI chat assistants such as ChatGPT, Gemini or Copilot) because products and features change often. The skills you learn here work with any of them.
5 modules · 20 lessons · 4 h 21 min · 6 quizzes
Understand AI, machine learning and generative AI in plain words, and learn what these tools do well and badly.
Write clear prompts, improve answers step by step, use AI to learn, and know what never to share.
Use AI for summaries, emails, CVs, planning, spreadsheets, translation, meeting notes and small business messages.
Use AI for captions, content plans, scripts and designs, and understand copyright, deepfakes and AI voices.
Think about ethics, honesty, fairness, privacy, jobs and safety, and build your own AI-use policy.
28 questions. Pass with 70% or more to earn your certificate.
Use generative AI tools well and safely at work or school: write strong prompts, draft, summarise and analyse, check facts, protect private data, follow policy and build repeatable workflows.
Learn how machines learn from data: prepare data, train and judge regression, tree, nearest-neighbour and clustering models with scikit-learn, avoid overfitting and bias, and finish a complete project.
