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Claude Essentials — Chat, Artifacts, Cowork & Code in 4 Weeks
START WITH CLAUDE
Intensity Level
PATHWAY · ENTRY
Operational Duration
4 WEEKS
Course Code: CL-ESS1
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Deep-Dive Specializations
Module Tracks
Foundations: how Claude actually works
Build an accurate mental model before you build habits. What a language model is and is not, why long chats drift, and how to tell a good answer from a confident wrong one.
- • What an LLM is (and is not); where it fails
- • Context windows, and why long chats drift
- • Prompting that works: task, context, constraints, format
- • Projects for persistent context
- • Verifying output; what never goes into a chat box
Everyday work: Chat, Projects & Artifacts
Put Claude on the work you already do — documents, data, research — then build a working tool with Artifacts without writing a line of code.
- • Working on real documents, data and research
- • Iterating on an answer instead of re-prompting
- • Artifacts: building a working tool, no code required
- • Reusable prompts for the tasks you repeat weekly
Cowork: Claude as a work partner
Move from asking questions to delegating work. Give Claude the context and tools to run multi-step tasks, then learn to review what comes back.
- • From answering questions to doing multi-step work
- • Connectors and giving an agent the right context
- • Delegating a task and reviewing the result
- • Where an agent should — and should not — be trusted
Claude Code & choosing your tools
Ship one small real thing with Claude Code, then step back: an honest look at where ChatGPT, Gemini and Copilot fit, and how to write an AI policy your team will actually follow.
- • Claude Code: build and ship one small real thing
- • Where ChatGPT, Gemini and Copilot fit
- • Choosing a tool for a task, not by habit
- • Writing a one-page AI policy for your team
Badge Achievement Hierarchy
Progression Pathway
- 01
Claude Beginner
Current Tier
- 02
Claude Practitioner
Level 2
- 03
Claude Certified
Certified
WEEKLY PLAN
Timeline // 4 weeks · online lessons + weekly labWk 1
Foundations
How Claude works, and how to ask well
What a language model actually does, where it fails, and the prompting pattern that fixes most bad answers. Set up Projects and your first saved prompts.
Wk 2
Everyday
Documents, analysis and your first Artifact
Put Claude on your real work — drafting, summarising, analysing — then build a working tool with Artifacts without writing code.
Wk 3
Cowork
Delegating real work to an agent
Hand Claude a multi-step task with the context and tools to finish it, then learn to review the result properly instead of trusting it.
Wk 4
Ship
Build with Claude Code, then choose your stack
Ship one small real thing with Claude Code. Then compare where ChatGPT, Gemini and Copilot fit, and write your team's one-page AI policy.
Technical Deliverables
System deployments you will depart with, fully optimized for production environments.
Forge Guarantee
“You will finish able to use Claude confidently for real work — chat and Projects, Artifacts, Cowork and Claude Code — with a personal AI toolkit, a working tool you built yourself, and a written AI policy for your team.”
Personal Claude Toolkit
Your Projects, saved prompts and working patterns for the tasks you actually do each week — set up in class, ready to use on Monday.
A Tool You Built
A working Artifact or small app you made and can show — built in the lab, no prior coding needed.
Your Team AI Policy
A one-page written policy: what goes into an assistant, what never does, and how output gets checked before it is used.