AI

Practical course

AI for Office, Research, and Study

Use AI to draft, summarize, compare, plan, and study while keeping human review in the loop.

Learning outcome

Use AI to draft, summarize, compare, plan, and study while keeping human review in the loop.

Course project

Create an AI-assisted weekly work or study system with templates.

Safety rule

Do not paste passwords, payment data, private IDs, customer records, or illegal requests into AI tools.

Course syllabus

Learn, do, quiz, and save proof.

Module 1

Office workflows

1Emails and repliesDraft clear emails, follow-ups, apologies, requests, and customer replies.Start lab

1. Learn

This lesson teaches one practical AI habit: Draft clear emails, follow-ups, apologies, requests, and customer replies. You will apply it to a real work sample, prompt, or workflow, compare the AI output with the goal, then save a reusable version only after review.

  1. 1Open ChatGPT or the closest approved tool for this task family.
  2. 2Paste the lab prompt, replace the bracketed parts with a real work sample, prompt, or workflow, and answer any clarifying questions.
  3. 3Review the output for facts, missing context, privacy, risky claims, and whether it solves the original task.
  4. 4Improve one weak part, then save the prompt, final output, and review note as course evidence.

2. Study the example

Example: use ChatGPT to complete this task: Turn rough notes into three polished messages with different tones. A strong result names the goal, gives enough context, asks for a specific format, marks assumptions, and includes a human review step before use.

Job seeker use

Use this skill to build safer job-search assets: tailored resumes, LinkedIn summaries, networking messages, company research notes, ethical interview preparation, and application tracking templates.

Student use

Use this skill for study plans, summaries, practice quizzes, class notes, project outlines, and revision checklists without submitting AI work as your own when your school rules prohibit it.

3. Proof to save

Email prompt pack.

Copy-ready lab prompt

You are helping me complete a practical AI-for-work task.

Task: [describe your real task]
Goal: Draft clear emails, follow-ups, apologies, requests, and customer replies.
Tool I may use: ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, NotebookLM, Docs
Audience: [who will read or use the output]
Constraints: keep it accurate, private-data safe, and easy to review.

First ask up to 3 clarifying questions if needed. Then create the output in a clear structure. End with assumptions, risk checks, and a final checklist before I use the result.

Tools to try

ChatGPTGeminiPerplexityNotebookLMDocs

4. Quick quiz and checklist

Select the clearest subject line and call to action.

  • Does the prompt include goal, context, audience, and output format?
  • Did you remove private, sensitive, payment, legal, medical, or account data?
  • Did you check facts, numbers, claims, tone, and missing assumptions?
  • Did you save the final prompt, output, and review notes as proof?

Common mistakes

  • Asking a one-line prompt with no audience, source, format, or success criteria.
  • Pasting private customer, payment, account, legal, medical, or employer-confidential information.
  • Using the AI answer without checking facts, numbers, tone, assumptions, and missing steps.

Passing answer key

A passing answer explains which tool you chose, why it fits the task, what context you gave it, how you checked the output, and what you changed before saving the final work sample, prompt, or workflow.

Rubric

  • Clear task and audience: 25%
  • Useful prompt structure and tool choice: 25%
  • Human review, privacy, and safety checks: 25%
  • Reusable saved template or work sample: 25%
2Meetings and notesConvert notes into summaries, action items, decisions, and follow-up emails.Start lab

1. Learn

This lesson teaches one practical AI habit: Convert notes into summaries, action items, decisions, and follow-up emails. You will apply it to a real work sample, prompt, or workflow, compare the AI output with the goal, then save a reusable version only after review.

  1. 1Open ChatGPT or the closest approved tool for this task family.
  2. 2Paste the lab prompt, replace the bracketed parts with a real work sample, prompt, or workflow, and answer any clarifying questions.
  3. 3Review the output for facts, missing context, privacy, risky claims, and whether it solves the original task.
  4. 4Improve one weak part, then save the prompt, final output, and review note as course evidence.

2. Study the example

Example: use ChatGPT to complete this task: Build a meeting summary from raw notes. A strong result names the goal, gives enough context, asks for a specific format, marks assumptions, and includes a human review step before use.

Job seeker use

Use this skill to build safer job-search assets: tailored resumes, LinkedIn summaries, networking messages, company research notes, ethical interview preparation, and application tracking templates.

Student use

Use this skill for study plans, summaries, practice quizzes, class notes, project outlines, and revision checklists without submitting AI work as your own when your school rules prohibit it.

3. Proof to save

Meeting-note workflow.

Copy-ready lab prompt

You are helping me complete a practical AI-for-work task.

Task: [describe your real task]
Goal: Convert notes into summaries, action items, decisions, and follow-up emails.
Tool I may use: ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, NotebookLM, Docs
Audience: [who will read or use the output]
Constraints: keep it accurate, private-data safe, and easy to review.

First ask up to 3 clarifying questions if needed. Then create the output in a clear structure. End with assumptions, risk checks, and a final checklist before I use the result.

Tools to try

ChatGPTGeminiPerplexityNotebookLMDocs

4. Quick quiz and checklist

Separate action item, decision, and open question.

  • Does the prompt include goal, context, audience, and output format?
  • Did you remove private, sensitive, payment, legal, medical, or account data?
  • Did you check facts, numbers, claims, tone, and missing assumptions?
  • Did you save the final prompt, output, and review notes as proof?

Common mistakes

  • Asking a one-line prompt with no audience, source, format, or success criteria.
  • Pasting private customer, payment, account, legal, medical, or employer-confidential information.
  • Using the AI answer without checking facts, numbers, tone, assumptions, and missing steps.

Passing answer key

A passing answer explains which tool you chose, why it fits the task, what context you gave it, how you checked the output, and what you changed before saving the final work sample, prompt, or workflow.

Rubric

  • Clear task and audience: 25%
  • Useful prompt structure and tool choice: 25%
  • Human review, privacy, and safety checks: 25%
  • Reusable saved template or work sample: 25%
3Reports and comparison tablesUse AI to structure information without hiding assumptions or uncertainty.Start lab

1. Learn

This lesson teaches one practical AI habit: Use AI to structure information without hiding assumptions or uncertainty. You will apply it to a real work sample, prompt, or workflow, compare the AI output with the goal, then save a reusable version only after review.

  1. 1Open ChatGPT or the closest approved tool for this task family.
  2. 2Paste the lab prompt, replace the bracketed parts with a real work sample, prompt, or workflow, and answer any clarifying questions.
  3. 3Review the output for facts, missing context, privacy, risky claims, and whether it solves the original task.
  4. 4Improve one weak part, then save the prompt, final output, and review note as course evidence.

2. Study the example

Example: use ChatGPT to complete this task: Create a comparison table with recommendation and risks. A strong result names the goal, gives enough context, asks for a specific format, marks assumptions, and includes a human review step before use.

Job seeker use

Use this skill to build safer job-search assets: tailored resumes, LinkedIn summaries, networking messages, company research notes, ethical interview preparation, and application tracking templates.

Student use

Use this skill for study plans, summaries, practice quizzes, class notes, project outlines, and revision checklists without submitting AI work as your own when your school rules prohibit it.

3. Proof to save

Decision report template.

Copy-ready lab prompt

You are helping me complete a practical AI-for-work task.

Task: [describe your real task]
Goal: Use AI to structure information without hiding assumptions or uncertainty.
Tool I may use: ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, NotebookLM, Docs
Audience: [who will read or use the output]
Constraints: keep it accurate, private-data safe, and easy to review.

First ask up to 3 clarifying questions if needed. Then create the output in a clear structure. End with assumptions, risk checks, and a final checklist before I use the result.

Tools to try

ChatGPTGeminiPerplexityNotebookLMDocs

4. Quick quiz and checklist

Find missing criteria in a recommendation.

  • Does the prompt include goal, context, audience, and output format?
  • Did you remove private, sensitive, payment, legal, medical, or account data?
  • Did you check facts, numbers, claims, tone, and missing assumptions?
  • Did you save the final prompt, output, and review notes as proof?

Common mistakes

  • Asking a one-line prompt with no audience, source, format, or success criteria.
  • Pasting private customer, payment, account, legal, medical, or employer-confidential information.
  • Using the AI answer without checking facts, numbers, tone, assumptions, and missing steps.

Passing answer key

A passing answer explains which tool you chose, why it fits the task, what context you gave it, how you checked the output, and what you changed before saving the final work sample, prompt, or workflow.

Rubric

  • Clear task and audience: 25%
  • Useful prompt structure and tool choice: 25%
  • Human review, privacy, and safety checks: 25%
  • Reusable saved template or work sample: 25%

Module 2

Research and study workflows

1Beginner learning planAsk AI to teach a topic with examples, practice, and a quiz.Start lab

1. Learn

This lesson teaches one practical AI habit: Ask AI to teach a topic with examples, practice, and a quiz. You will apply it to a real work sample, prompt, or workflow, compare the AI output with the goal, then save a reusable version only after review.

  1. 1Open ChatGPT or the closest approved tool for this task family.
  2. 2Paste the lab prompt, replace the bracketed parts with a real work sample, prompt, or workflow, and answer any clarifying questions.
  3. 3Review the output for facts, missing context, privacy, risky claims, and whether it solves the original task.
  4. 4Improve one weak part, then save the prompt, final output, and review note as course evidence.

2. Study the example

Example: use ChatGPT to complete this task: Generate a 7-day plan for one skill the learner wants. A strong result names the goal, gives enough context, asks for a specific format, marks assumptions, and includes a human review step before use.

Job seeker use

Use this skill to build safer job-search assets: tailored resumes, LinkedIn summaries, networking messages, company research notes, ethical interview preparation, and application tracking templates.

Student use

Use this skill for study plans, summaries, practice quizzes, class notes, project outlines, and revision checklists without submitting AI work as your own when your school rules prohibit it.

3. Proof to save

Personal learning roadmap.

Copy-ready lab prompt

You are helping me complete a practical AI-for-work task.

Task: [describe your real task]
Goal: Ask AI to teach a topic with examples, practice, and a quiz.
Tool I may use: ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, NotebookLM, Docs
Audience: [who will read or use the output]
Constraints: keep it accurate, private-data safe, and easy to review.

First ask up to 3 clarifying questions if needed. Then create the output in a clear structure. End with assumptions, risk checks, and a final checklist before I use the result.

Tools to try

ChatGPTGeminiPerplexityNotebookLMDocs

4. Quick quiz and checklist

Identify a weak learning plan.

  • Does the prompt include goal, context, audience, and output format?
  • Did you remove private, sensitive, payment, legal, medical, or account data?
  • Did you check facts, numbers, claims, tone, and missing assumptions?
  • Did you save the final prompt, output, and review notes as proof?

Common mistakes

  • Asking a one-line prompt with no audience, source, format, or success criteria.
  • Pasting private customer, payment, account, legal, medical, or employer-confidential information.
  • Using the AI answer without checking facts, numbers, tone, assumptions, and missing steps.

Passing answer key

A passing answer explains which tool you chose, why it fits the task, what context you gave it, how you checked the output, and what you changed before saving the final work sample, prompt, or workflow.

Rubric

  • Clear task and audience: 25%
  • Useful prompt structure and tool choice: 25%
  • Human review, privacy, and safety checks: 25%
  • Reusable saved template or work sample: 25%
2Research with verificationUse AI to organize questions and summaries while checking important facts elsewhere.Start lab

1. Learn

This lesson teaches one practical AI habit: Use AI to organize questions and summaries while checking important facts elsewhere. You will apply it to a real work sample, prompt, or workflow, compare the AI output with the goal, then save a reusable version only after review.

  1. 1Open ChatGPT or the closest approved tool for this task family.
  2. 2Paste the lab prompt, replace the bracketed parts with a real work sample, prompt, or workflow, and answer any clarifying questions.
  3. 3Review the output for facts, missing context, privacy, risky claims, and whether it solves the original task.
  4. 4Improve one weak part, then save the prompt, final output, and review note as course evidence.

2. Study the example

Example: use ChatGPT to complete this task: Create a research brief with questions, assumptions, and verification list. A strong result names the goal, gives enough context, asks for a specific format, marks assumptions, and includes a human review step before use.

Job seeker use

Use this skill to build safer job-search assets: tailored resumes, LinkedIn summaries, networking messages, company research notes, ethical interview preparation, and application tracking templates.

Student use

Use this skill for study plans, summaries, practice quizzes, class notes, project outlines, and revision checklists without submitting AI work as your own when your school rules prohibit it.

3. Proof to save

Research brief template.

Copy-ready lab prompt

You are helping me complete a practical AI-for-work task.

Task: [describe your real task]
Goal: Use AI to organize questions and summaries while checking important facts elsewhere.
Tool I may use: ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, NotebookLM, Docs
Audience: [who will read or use the output]
Constraints: keep it accurate, private-data safe, and easy to review.

First ask up to 3 clarifying questions if needed. Then create the output in a clear structure. End with assumptions, risk checks, and a final checklist before I use the result.

Tools to try

ChatGPTGeminiPerplexityNotebookLMDocs

4. Quick quiz and checklist

Mark which claims need external verification.

  • Does the prompt include goal, context, audience, and output format?
  • Did you remove private, sensitive, payment, legal, medical, or account data?
  • Did you check facts, numbers, claims, tone, and missing assumptions?
  • Did you save the final prompt, output, and review notes as proof?

Common mistakes

  • Asking a one-line prompt with no audience, source, format, or success criteria.
  • Pasting private customer, payment, account, legal, medical, or employer-confidential information.
  • Using the AI answer without checking facts, numbers, tone, assumptions, and missing steps.

Passing answer key

A passing answer explains which tool you chose, why it fits the task, what context you gave it, how you checked the output, and what you changed before saving the final work sample, prompt, or workflow.

Rubric

  • Clear task and audience: 25%
  • Useful prompt structure and tool choice: 25%
  • Human review, privacy, and safety checks: 25%
  • Reusable saved template or work sample: 25%
3PDF and document summary workflowSummarize long documents without losing important assumptions, definitions, or exceptions.Start lab

1. Learn

This lesson teaches one practical AI habit: Summarize long documents without losing important assumptions, definitions, or exceptions. You will apply it to a real work sample, prompt, or workflow, compare the AI output with the goal, then save a reusable version only after review.

  1. 1Open ChatGPT or the closest approved tool for this task family.
  2. 2Paste the lab prompt, replace the bracketed parts with a real work sample, prompt, or workflow, and answer any clarifying questions.
  3. 3Review the output for facts, missing context, privacy, risky claims, and whether it solves the original task.
  4. 4Improve one weak part, then save the prompt, final output, and review note as course evidence.

2. Study the example

Example: use ChatGPT to complete this task: Create a summary, questions list, and verification checklist from a long document. A strong result names the goal, gives enough context, asks for a specific format, marks assumptions, and includes a human review step before use.

Job seeker use

Use this skill to build safer job-search assets: tailored resumes, LinkedIn summaries, networking messages, company research notes, ethical interview preparation, and application tracking templates.

Student use

Use this skill for study plans, summaries, practice quizzes, class notes, project outlines, and revision checklists without submitting AI work as your own when your school rules prohibit it.

3. Proof to save

Document summary template.

Copy-ready lab prompt

You are helping me complete a practical AI-for-work task.

Task: [describe your real task]
Goal: Summarize long documents without losing important assumptions, definitions, or exceptions.
Tool I may use: ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, NotebookLM, Docs
Audience: [who will read or use the output]
Constraints: keep it accurate, private-data safe, and easy to review.

First ask up to 3 clarifying questions if needed. Then create the output in a clear structure. End with assumptions, risk checks, and a final checklist before I use the result.

Tools to try

ChatGPTGeminiPerplexityNotebookLMDocs

4. Quick quiz and checklist

Find which summary missed a key condition.

  • Does the prompt include goal, context, audience, and output format?
  • Did you remove private, sensitive, payment, legal, medical, or account data?
  • Did you check facts, numbers, claims, tone, and missing assumptions?
  • Did you save the final prompt, output, and review notes as proof?

Common mistakes

  • Asking a one-line prompt with no audience, source, format, or success criteria.
  • Pasting private customer, payment, account, legal, medical, or employer-confidential information.
  • Using the AI answer without checking facts, numbers, tone, assumptions, and missing steps.

Passing answer key

A passing answer explains which tool you chose, why it fits the task, what context you gave it, how you checked the output, and what you changed before saving the final work sample, prompt, or workflow.

Rubric

  • Clear task and audience: 25%
  • Useful prompt structure and tool choice: 25%
  • Human review, privacy, and safety checks: 25%
  • Reusable saved template or work sample: 25%
4Study tutor with adaptive practiceUse AI to explain, quiz, correct, and re-teach based on mistakes.Start lab

1. Learn

This lesson teaches one practical AI habit: Use AI to explain, quiz, correct, and re-teach based on mistakes. You will apply it to a real work sample, prompt, or workflow, compare the AI output with the goal, then save a reusable version only after review.

  1. 1Open ChatGPT or the closest approved tool for this task family.
  2. 2Paste the lab prompt, replace the bracketed parts with a real work sample, prompt, or workflow, and answer any clarifying questions.
  3. 3Review the output for facts, missing context, privacy, risky claims, and whether it solves the original task.
  4. 4Improve one weak part, then save the prompt, final output, and review note as course evidence.

2. Study the example

Example: use ChatGPT to complete this task: Create a tutor prompt that gives examples, checks your answer, and adjusts difficulty. A strong result names the goal, gives enough context, asks for a specific format, marks assumptions, and includes a human review step before use.

Job seeker use

Use this skill to build safer job-search assets: tailored resumes, LinkedIn summaries, networking messages, company research notes, ethical interview preparation, and application tracking templates.

Student use

Use this skill for study plans, summaries, practice quizzes, class notes, project outlines, and revision checklists without submitting AI work as your own when your school rules prohibit it.

3. Proof to save

Adaptive study prompt.

Copy-ready lab prompt

You are helping me complete a practical AI-for-work task.

Task: [describe your real task]
Goal: Use AI to explain, quiz, correct, and re-teach based on mistakes.
Tool I may use: ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, NotebookLM, Docs
Audience: [who will read or use the output]
Constraints: keep it accurate, private-data safe, and easy to review.

First ask up to 3 clarifying questions if needed. Then create the output in a clear structure. End with assumptions, risk checks, and a final checklist before I use the result.

Tools to try

ChatGPTGeminiPerplexityNotebookLMDocs

4. Quick quiz and checklist

Choose the tutor response that gives useful correction instead of just the answer.

  • Does the prompt include goal, context, audience, and output format?
  • Did you remove private, sensitive, payment, legal, medical, or account data?
  • Did you check facts, numbers, claims, tone, and missing assumptions?
  • Did you save the final prompt, output, and review notes as proof?

Common mistakes

  • Asking a one-line prompt with no audience, source, format, or success criteria.
  • Pasting private customer, payment, account, legal, medical, or employer-confidential information.
  • Using the AI answer without checking facts, numbers, tone, assumptions, and missing steps.

Passing answer key

A passing answer explains which tool you chose, why it fits the task, what context you gave it, how you checked the output, and what you changed before saving the final work sample, prompt, or workflow.

Rubric

  • Clear task and audience: 25%
  • Useful prompt structure and tool choice: 25%
  • Human review, privacy, and safety checks: 25%
  • Reusable saved template or work sample: 25%

Certificate evidence

This course contributes to your AI work portfolio.

Finish the lessons, save your prompts and outputs, then use the capstone checklist to show what AI did, what you reviewed, and where human judgment was required.

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