Welcome to the world of AI and advanced technology

Who it is for: Adults and teenagers anywhere in the world who have a phone or a basic laptop, use English as a second language, and have no technical background. No previous experience with AI is needed; if you can send a WhatsApp message, you can start.

You will be able to: By the end you can write, translate, plan, study, make images and keep simple records with free AI tools, using clear prompts and checking every fact against a source. You can protect your privacy, recognise AI-powered scams and deepfakes, and set safe rules for children and older relatives. You can explain in plain words what AI cannot do, and you will have completed a real capstone project you can show to a school or an employer.

• 1
  What AI is, and getting started

  Understand what an AI chatbot is, open one on your phone, and set your first safety rules.
• 2
  How to ask: prompting

  Write clear instructions that get useful answers the first time, and improve them with follow-ups.
• 3
  Writing with AI

  Write clear emails, messages and longer texts in good English, in your own voice, and be honest about AI help.
• 4
  Translation and language learning

  Translate text, speech and signs reliably, judge when a translation can be trusted, and use AI to practise English every day.
• 5
  Checking facts and understanding AI mistakes

  Recognise when an AI answer may be wrong, verify it with sources, and understand bias and missing voices.
• 6
  Learning and study

  Use AI as a tutor and study partner that makes you understand more, not less, and work honestly within school rules.
• 7
  Voice, images and photos

  Talk to AI by voice, create and edit images for real purposes, and ask AI about photos, while respecting people's rights.
• 8
  Scams, deepfakes and protecting your family

  Recognise AI-powered scams and fake media, verify before you trust, and set up safe AI use for children and older relatives.
• 9
  Planning, spreadsheets and documents

  Use AI to plan time and money, build and understand simple spreadsheets, and summarise or draft documents in the tools you already have.
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  Jobs and applications

  Build an honest, strong CV and cover letter with AI, prepare for interviews, and understand how employers use AI to screen you.
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  Small business tasks

  Use AI to serve customers, market products, keep simple records and make better decisions in a small business, while knowing what AI must not decide.
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  Privacy, limits and your capstone

  Control what AI tools keep about you, know clearly what AI cannot do, and complete a capstone project that proves you can use AI confidently and safely.

Who it is for: Working adults anywhere in the world who already do a job and want AI to help them do it: teachers, health workers, lawyers and paralegals, accountants and bookkeepers, marketers and sales staff, engineers and technicians, civil servants, shop and restaurant owners, and freelancers. You need basic computer skills and everyday English; no technical background is needed.

You will be able to: By the end you can use ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Microsoft Copilot, Google Workspace Gemini, Perplexity, NotebookLM, Canva, transcription tools and beginner automations for the tasks of your own job. You can write prompts that get useful results, check facts and sources, protect client and patient data, and explain where AI was used. You finish with a personal AI workflow and a graded portfolio project you can show an employer or client.

• 1
  Getting started with AI at work

  Choose the right AI tool, write a clear work prompt, and apply the three safety rules before you type anything about your job.
• 2
  Documents and email

  Draft, edit and translate documents and emails with AI inside the tools you already use, and keep your own voice and your reader's trust.
• 3
  Meetings and data

  Turn meetings into checked notes and actions with transcription, and use AI in Excel and Sheets to clean, calculate and explain data without trusting a number you have not verified.
• 4
  Research and presentations

  Find facts with real sources, question your own documents with NotebookLM, and build a clear presentation with Canva or Copilot while keeping the message yours.
• 5
  AI for teachers

  Plan, differentiate, assess and communicate with AI while protecting students, academic integrity and your own professional judgement.
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  AI for health workers

  Use AI for patient communication, documentation and learning while keeping patient confidentiality, clinical responsibility and your regulator's rules intact.
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  AI for lawyers and paralegals

  Use AI for document review, drafting and research while protecting privilege, verifying every authority and meeting your bar's disclosure and competence duties.
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  AI for accountants and bookkeepers

  Use AI in spreadsheets, reconciliations, client communication and technical research while protecting client data, keeping an audit trail and staying within your professional standards.
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  AI for marketers, sales and small business owners

  Produce content, campaigns and sales communication with AI in your own brand voice, while respecting consumer law, copyright, disclosure rules and your customers' data.
• 10
  AI for engineers and technicians

  Use AI for technical writing, calculations, code and troubleshooting while keeping safety-critical judgement, standards compliance and design confidentiality intact.
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  Automation and reusable assistants

  Build your first beginner automation with Zapier or Make and your first reusable assistant, with human checkpoints where mistakes would matter.
• 12
  Your personal AI workflow and portfolio project

  Design the AI workflow you will actually use, complete your capstone project, present it, and leave with a habit of keeping your judgement sharp.

Who it is for: This course is for adults and teenagers anywhere in the world who want to make videos for YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, WhatsApp business, school or a small business. You need only a phone or a cheap laptop, an internet connection and simple English.

You will be able to: At the end you can plan, shoot and edit a short video and a long video with CapCut and DaVinci Resolve, with clean sound, captions, music that is legal to use and correct export settings for each platform. You can read your analytics and improve your next video. You can take a paying client from first message to final delivery, and you will have a portfolio of five finished videos to show.

• 1
  How video works

  Understand frames, resolution, aspect ratios and codecs well enough to make the right choice every time you shoot or export.
• 2
  Shooting with a phone

  Record footage with good light, clean sound and a steady frame so that editing starts from strong material.
• 3
  Your first edit in CapCut

  Build a clean one minute video from raw clips by cutting, trimming, ordering and exporting in CapCut on a phone.
• 4
  Transitions, text and captions

  Use transitions with taste, add readable titles and generate accurate captions so your videos work with the sound off.
• 5
  Music, sound effects and clean audio

  Choose music you are legally allowed to use, mix it under the voice, and clean up noisy recordings.
• 6
  Colour

  Correct exposure and white balance, match clips to each other, and apply a consistent look in CapCut and DaVinci Resolve.
• 7
  Editing on a laptop with DaVinci Resolve

  Set up Resolve for a cheap laptop, edit a two minute video with keyboard shortcuts, and deliver it.
• 8
  AI tools inside your editor

  Use the AI features built into CapCut, Resolve and Canva to save hours, and know exactly where they fail.
• 9
  Storytelling, hooks and formats

  Plan videos that hold attention, open with a strong hook, and choose between short-form and long-form on purpose.
• 10
  Thumbnails, exporting and publishing

  Make a thumbnail people click, export the right file for each platform, and publish correctly on YouTube, TikTok, Instagram and WhatsApp.
• 11
  Analytics and working with clients

  Read analytics to improve the next video, and run a paid editing job from brief to delivery with clear pricing.
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  The portfolio project

  Plan, produce and present a portfolio of five finished videos and a showreel that gets work.

Who it is for: Small-business owners, students, teachers, content creators and anyone who needs images for posts, slides, menus or websites but cannot pay a designer. No drawing skill needed. A phone or a cheap laptop and a browser are enough. English as a second language is fine; the prompts here are short.

You will be able to: You will write image prompts that get what you asked for, choose between Midjourney (paid), Ideogram and Adobe Firefly (free tiers) and other free tools, put readable text into images, edit and extend pictures, keep a character consistent across images, and know which images you may legally use for business. Your capstone is a complete visual identity for a small business.

• 1
  How image models work and how to talk to them

  Understand what an image model does and write prompts that get predictable results.
• 2
  Midjourney and advanced prompting

  Learn the paid industry standard and the controls that give professional results.
• 3
  Editing, consistent characters and series

  Produce sets of images that belong together: same character, same style, same brand.
• 4
  Licensing, ethics and the capstone

  Know what you may legally and ethically use, then deliver a complete visual identity.

Who it is for: Teachers, small-business owners, students, community workers and creators who need a voice-over, a talking-head video or a dubbed clip but have no studio, no actor and no budget. A phone or a cheap laptop with a browser is enough. English as a second language is fine; this course is also about speaking to people in their own language.

You will be able to: You will produce natural text-to-speech in several languages with ElevenLabs, understand voice design versus voice cloning and the consent rules around them, dub and translate a short clip, make an avatar video in HeyGen and compare it with Synthesia, add accurate subtitles and clean up audio with free tools, and disclose AI use honestly. Your capstone is a one-minute explainer video in two languages.

• 1
  Text to speech with ElevenLabs

  Produce clear, natural speech from text in two languages and know the free tier's limits.
• 2
  Voice design, voice cloning, consent and dubbing

  Create a voice the right way, understand the law around cloning, and dub a short clip.
• 3
  Avatars, subtitles and clean audio

  Make a simple avatar video, compare HeyGen and Synthesia, and add subtitles and clean audio with free tools.
• 4
  Ethics, disclosure and the two-language explainer

  Decide what you will and will not make, label your work honestly, and deliver a one-minute explainer in two languages.

Who it is for: Adults and teenagers anywhere in the world who need posters, posts, slides and short videos for a small business, a school project or a community group. No design background needed. English as a second language is fine; the course uses short sentences and exact menu names.

You will be able to: By the end you can set up a brand kit, design social posts, presentations, short videos and print items in Canva, use Magic Write, Magic Design, Magic Edit and Background Remover with judgement, and know which elements you may legally use. Your capstone is a complete brand kit and a month of ready-to-post designs.

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  Start right: account, templates and your brand

  Set up Canva, understand what is free, and build the brand kit every later design will use.
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  Canva's AI tools: Magic Studio with judgement

  Use Magic Write, Magic Design, Background Remover and Magic Edit to work faster, and learn when not to trust them.
• 3
  Formats: presentations, social video, print, Docs and Sheets

  Design for the four places your work will be seen: a screen you present on, a phone feed, paper, and documents.
• 4
  Licensing, planning and the capstone

  Know what you may legally use, plan a month of content, and deliver a complete brand kit with 12 finished posts.

Who it is for: Adults and teenagers anywhere who want to make short videos for TikTok, Instagram Reels, YouTube Shorts or WhatsApp, for a small business, a school project, a family or a community. No editing experience needed. Works on an ordinary Android or iPhone. English as a second language is fine.

You will be able to: By the end you can plan, cut, caption, score and export a short video that looks professional, use CapCut's AI tools for captions, voice and background removal with judgement, respect music copyright, and export the right file for each platform. Your capstone is a 60-second story video.

• 1
  Shoot, import, cut

  Set up CapCut, bring in clips, and master the three cuts that make every video: trim, split, speed.
• 2
  Polish: transitions, text, captions, music

  Add the layer viewers notice: readable text, accurate captions, and music you are allowed to use.
• 3
  Look: background removal, templates, colour

  Make the picture itself better: clean backgrounds, template speed, and colour that looks intentional.
• 4
  Export, platforms and the capstone

  Export the right file for each platform, plan a 60-second story, and deliver it.

Who it is for: Adults and teenagers anywhere in the world who want to use ChatGPT well for study, work or home. You need a phone or a basic laptop, an internet connection and everyday English. No technical background. The free tier is enough for the whole course.

You will be able to: By the end you can set up ChatGPT safely, write prompts that get useful first answers, shape its memory and custom instructions, work with files, images and voice, use GPTs and Projects, switch between search and reasoning modes, analyse a spreadsheet by uploading it, run writing and study workflows, and protect your privacy. You finish with a personal ChatGPT toolkit: a set of tested prompts, a Project and a GPT built for your own life.

• 1
  Set up and talk to ChatGPT

  Open a safe account, understand what the free tier gives you, and write prompts that get a good first answer.
• 2
  Make ChatGPT yours

  Shape ChatGPT with custom instructions and memory, then work with files, images and your voice.
• 3
  Power features

  Use GPTs and Projects to organise work, choose between search and reasoning modes, and analyse data by uploading it.
• 4
  Workflows, safety and your toolkit

  Build repeatable writing and study workflows, lock down safety and privacy, and assemble a personal ChatGPT toolkit.

Who it is for: Adults and teenagers anywhere in the world who want a careful AI assistant for writing, reading long documents, research and small projects. You need a phone or a basic laptop, an internet connection and everyday English. No technical background. The free plan is enough for most of the course; two lessons mention features that need a paid plan and give a free route.

You will be able to: By the end you can choose the right Claude plan, set up Projects with knowledge and instructions, make and edit artifacts, work through long documents and PDFs, write in a style that sounds like you, research with web search and real citations, get coding help without being a coder, use Claude in Chrome and on the desktop, and know exactly where Claude should not be trusted. You finish with a project workspace that does a recurring job in your life or work.

• 1
  Meet Claude

  Set up Claude safely, understand the free and paid plans, and write prompts that get a thoughtful first answer.
• 2
  Projects, artifacts and long documents

  Organise work in Projects with knowledge and instructions, create and edit artifacts, and get reliable answers from long documents and PDFs.
• 3
  Writing, research and code

  Write in a style that sounds like you, research with real citations, and get working code without being a coder.
• 4
  Everywhere, safely, and your workspace

  Use Claude in Chrome and on the desktop, set every safety and privacy control, and build a project workspace that does a real job.

Who it is for: Adults and teenagers who have outgrown phone editors and want a real desktop editor for YouTube, short films, school media or client work, without paying for software. You need a laptop or desktop with at least 8 GB of memory; 16 GB is better. English as a second language is fine.

You will be able to: By the end you can set up a project correctly, edit on the Cut and Edit pages, trim with precision, fix dialogue and music levels, add titles, grade with primaries and LUTs, know what Fusion is for, and export the right codec for YouTube and clients. Your capstone is a 2-minute edited and graded short.

• 1
  Install, set up, and your first cut

  Get Resolve running well on your machine, understand its seven pages, and make a first rough cut on the Cut page.
• 2
  The Edit page: timeline, trimming and sound

  Move to the full editor, trim with precision, and make dialogue and music sound clean.
• 3
  Titles, colour and Fusion at a glance

  Add clean titles, grade footage so it looks intentional, and understand what the Color and Fusion pages are for.
• 4
  Export, speed and the capstone

  Deliver the right file for every destination, work faster with shortcuts, and finish a 2-minute graded short.

Who it is for: Adults and teenagers who run a small shop, a club, a family budget or a school project and want numbers they can trust. No spreadsheet experience needed. A phone or a cheap laptop is enough.

You will be able to: In four weeks you will build a clean sales sheet, a budget, a stock sheet and a one-page dashboard with charts and a pivot table. You will know the ten formulas that matter, how to clean messy data, and how to ask Gemini, Copilot or a free chatbot to write and explain formulas for you.

• 1
  Spreadsheet basics done right

  Build a clean data sheet and use the formulas that solve most real problems.
• 2
  Organise, show and meet the AI

  Turn raw data into tables, filters and charts, and switch on the AI assistants built into Sheets and Excel.
• 3
  AI formulas, clean data and pivot tables

  Use AI to write and explain formulas, clean a messy sheet and summarise it with a pivot table.
• 4
  Budget, stock and the dashboard

  Build the two sheets every small business needs and bring them together in a one-page dashboard.

Who it is for: Adults and teenagers anywhere in the world who already use Gmail, Google Docs or an Android phone and want the AI inside them to do real work. You need a Google account, a phone or a basic laptop, an internet connection and everyday English. No technical background. The free tier covers most of the course; where a feature needs a paid plan the lesson says so and gives a free route.

You will be able to: By the end you can use the Gemini app well, write and summarise in Gmail and Docs, organise and analyse in Sheets, build Slides, ask questions of your Drive, turn sources into study material in NotebookLM, talk to Gemini Live with your camera, use Lens and Translate in the real world, read AI results in Google Search with judgement, run Gemini as your Android assistant, and set your privacy controls on purpose. You finish with a Workspace workflow for study or a small business that saves you hours each week.

• 1
  The Gemini app

  Set up the Gemini app, know what the free tier gives you, write prompts that work, and build your first Gem.
• 2
  Gemini in Gmail, Docs, Sheets, Slides and Drive

  Use Gemini inside each Workspace app for the task that app is for, and know what the free tier gives you in each.
• 3
  NotebookLM, Live, Lens, Translate and Search

  Turn your own sources into study material, talk to Gemini with your camera, use Lens and Translate in the real world, and read AI in Search with judgement.
• 4
  Android, privacy and your workflow

  Run Gemini as your phone assistant, set every privacy control on purpose, and build a Workspace workflow for study or a small business.

Who it is for: Adults and teenagers anywhere in the world who want fast answers about news, markets, trends and public conversation, and who want to do it without being fooled. You need everyday English and a phone or a cheap laptop. An X account is useful but the free tier of grok.com works without one for most lessons.

You will be able to: By the end you can use Grok in the X app, on grok.com and in the Grok app; choose between the fast mode, DeepSearch and Think; search live posts on X and read the results critically; create and understand images; use voice; follow news and markets with a verification habit; detect bias and misinformation; set your privacy controls; and run a daily research routine in which every claim you keep has a checked source.

• 1
  Meet Grok and ask well

  Know where Grok lives, what the free tier gives you, what makes it different from other assistants, and how to ask a question that gets a sourced answer.
• 2
  Modes, images and voice

  Choose the right mode for the job: fast answers, DeepSearch for a sourced report, Think for careful reasoning; then create and understand images and use voice safely.
• 3
  News, markets and the truth test

  Use Grok to follow news and markets while applying a fixed verification routine, and learn to detect bias, manipulation and misinformation in both the posts and in Grok itself.
• 4
  Privacy, settings and your daily routine

  Set your privacy and data controls on X and Grok, understand what Grok keeps and what it shares, and build and run a daily research routine with sources checked.

Who it is for: Adults and teenagers anywhere in the world who use, or will soon use, Word, Excel, Outlook or Teams for school, work or a small business. You need everyday English and a phone or a cheap laptop. No technical background is needed. You can follow the whole course on the free Copilot app and the free web versions of the Office apps; the paid Microsoft 365 Copilot licence is explained but not required.

You will be able to: By the end you can tell which Copilot you have and what it can do, draft and rewrite documents in Word, build formulas and charts in Excel, draft and summarise email in Outlook, read meeting recaps in Teams, build a short slide deck in PowerPoint, understand Copilot Pages and agents, and protect your data with the right settings. You finish with a documented one-week office workflow that you can show an employer.

• 1
  Know your Copilot and master Word

  Find out which Copilot you have, learn the one prompt pattern that works everywhere, and use Copilot in Word to draft, rewrite and summarise.
• 2
  Excel and Outlook with Copilot

  Use Copilot in Excel to write formulas, analyse data and make charts, see what Python in Excel does, and let Copilot in Outlook draft and summarise email without losing your voice.
• 3
  Teams, PowerPoint, Pages and agents

  Use Copilot in Teams to recap meetings and chats, build a short deck in PowerPoint, work in Copilot Pages, and understand what an agent is and when to use one.
• 4
  Protect your data and build your workflow

  Understand where your data goes, set the key privacy and admin settings, and design and document a one-week office workflow that uses Copilot well and honestly.

Who it is for: Students, freelancers, teachers, small-business owners and anyone whose notes live in ten different apps. No experience with Notion is needed. You need a free Notion account, a phone or a cheap laptop, and about two hours a week.

You will be able to: By the end you will run your study, work and life from one Notion workspace: linked pages, a task database with table, board and calendar views, reusable templates, safe sharing, and Notion AI as a helper. Your capstone is a personal operating system you will keep using.

• 1
  Pages and blocks: the building bricks

  Build and organise pages with confidence, on a laptop and on a phone.
• 2
  Databases: table, board and calendar

  Build one task database and view it three ways, with filters, sorts and templates.
• 3
  Templates, Notion AI, sharing and permissions

  Use ready-made templates wisely, put Notion AI to work on real tasks, and share safely.
• 4
  A second brain and your personal operating system

  Connect everything into one simple system you will still use in six months.

Who it is for: Adults and teenagers anywhere in the world who need to find reliable information for school, work or life, and who want every answer to come with sources they can open. You need everyday English and a phone or a cheap laptop. The free tier of Perplexity is enough for the whole course; Pro features are explained so you can decide whether to pay.

You will be able to: By the end you can ask Perplexity questions that get precise, cited answers; read and judge citations; use Focus modes for academic, news and video sources; organise work in Spaces and search your own files; use Pro Search and Deep Research well; compare Perplexity with Google and know when to use each; verify claims; and export and cite correctly for school and work. You finish with a sourced research brief on a topic of your choice.

• 1
  Ask well and read the citations

  Understand what Perplexity is, what the free tier gives you, how to ask a question that gets a precise cited answer, and how to read and judge every citation.
• 2
  Focus modes, Spaces and your own files

  Use Focus modes to search academic papers, news and video; organise research in Spaces with instructions; and search your own uploaded files alongside the web.
• 3
  Pro Search, Deep Research, Google and verification

  Use Pro Search and Deep Research for the right questions, compare Perplexity with Google and Google Scholar honestly, and apply a verification routine to every claim you keep.
• 4
  Export, cite, protect your data and write the brief

  Export and cite Perplexity research correctly for school and work, set your privacy controls, and plan, write and check a sourced research brief.

Who it is for: Students, teachers, office workers, freelancers, small business owners and curious teenagers anywhere in the world who already use ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Copilot or Meta AI and want results they can rely on. English as a second language is fine; the prompts you write can be in any language.

You will be able to: In four weeks you will understand in plain words how language models work, write prompts with a clear role, task, context, format and examples, iterate until the output is right, use few-shot and step by step reasoning, set custom instructions, write prompts for writing, analysis, code and images, test outputs for errors and hallucinations, and finish with a personal library of 25 tested prompts.

• 1
  How models work and what a good prompt contains

  Understand what a language model is and is not, then write prompts with the five parts that make answers reliable.
• 2
  Examples, reasoning and standing instructions

  Use few-shot examples, step by step reasoning and custom instructions so the model behaves the way you want every time.
• 3
  Prompts for writing, analysis, code and images

  Apply the method to the four kinds of work people actually bring to an assistant.
• 4
  Evaluate, know the limits, build the library

  Judge outputs systematically, work around hallucinations and limits, and finish a personal library of 25 tested prompts.

Who it is for: Shop owners, tailors, tutors, food sellers, freelancers and teenagers helping a family business, anywhere in the world. You need a phone with the free WhatsApp Business app, a second SIM or number is helpful but not required.

You will be able to: In four weeks you will set up a complete WhatsApp Business profile with a catalogue, labels, quick replies, greeting and away messages and broadcast lists; use Meta AI to write replies, translate and make images; understand ads that click to WhatsApp; and run customer service that is fast, polite and safe from scams.

• 1
  Set up the shop

  Install the WhatsApp Business app, build a complete profile and a catalogue customers can browse.
• 2
  Reply faster, miss nobody

  Use labels, quick replies, greeting and away messages, and broadcast lists so every customer gets a fast, consistent answer.
• 3
  Meta AI, payments and ads at a glance

  Use Meta AI to write, translate and make images inside WhatsApp, take payments cleanly, and understand how ads that click to WhatsApp work.
• 4
  Service habits, safety and the complete shop

  Build daily customer service habits, lock down privacy and scam defences, and finish a complete shop setup.