Claude Essentials — Chat, Artifacts, Cowork & Code in 4 Weeks
START WITH CLAUDE
Intensity Level
PATHWAY · ENTRY
Operational Duration
4 WEEKS
Course Code: CL-ESS1
Enrolment
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MODULE TRACKS
Deep-Dive Specializations
PROGRESSION PATHWAY
Badge Achievement Hierarchy
Claude Beginner
Current Tier
Claude Practitioner
Level 2
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.