Course
Learn to use AI well
From opening an AI app for the first time to using it for study, work and daily life.
- No experience needed
- 9h 20m
- 64 lessons
- 9 modules
- Free of charge
Overview
About this course
A free, complete course that teaches you to use ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini for study, work and daily life. Plain English, no fee. The first five lessons are open to everyone; a free sign-in unlocks the rest.
Contents
Curriculum
9 modules, 64 lessons, 9h 20m
Start today
7 lessons
Open an AI app, get past the sign-up, and ask your first useful questions. Even if you have no email address, no computer and very little data.
- What is generative AI, explained in plain words8 min
- Which AI app should you use first11 min
- Making an account with no email and no SIM9 min
- Your first ten questions to ask an AI app9 min
- AI app not working: eight fixes that actually help9 min
- How to use AI in Hindi on your phone8 minSign in to read
- Using AI without finishing your data7 minSign in to read
Asking well
6 lessons
Turn a vague question into a clear request. This one skill is the difference between a useless answer and a useful one.
- How to ask so you get a useful answer11 minSign in to read
- Asking for the answer in the shape you need8 minSign in to read
- Give AI your book page, your notes or a photo9 minSign in to read
- Correcting it when the answer is wrong8 minSign in to read
- One chat, one job: why long AI chats get worse8 minSign in to read
- Prompt tricks that do not work8 minSign in to read
What is really happening inside
7 lessons
Understand what the machine is actually doing. Once you know this, nothing it does will surprise you, and you will stop expecting things it cannot do.
- It is guessing the next word10 minSign in to read
- How an AI model is trained, in three plain steps10 minSign in to read
- Why AI forgets what you said: the context window8 minSign in to read
- Why the same question gives different answers7 minSign in to read
- What thinking mode really does8 minSign in to read
- Does ChatGPT search the internet? How AI uses tools9 minSign in to read
- Common myths about AI: four wrong ideas8 minSign in to read
When it is wrong
6 lessons
Know why AI makes confident mistakes, catch them in seconds, and build a checking habit you use every time.
- Why AI makes things up9 minSign in to read
- The two-chat test and three other checks9 minSign in to read
- It agrees with you far too easily8 minSign in to read
- Why it is weaker on Indian questions9 minSign in to read
- Checking sources, links and quotes8 minSign in to read
- Your checking habit on one page8 minSign in to read
Learning with AI
10 lessons
Use AI as a patient teacher for maths, physics, chemistry, computers and English, in a way that makes you stronger rather than weaker.
- The answer machine trap9 minSign in to read
- Making AI your maths teacher10 minSign in to read
- Why it gets sums wrong9 minSign in to read
- Seven ways to check a maths answer9 minSign in to read
- Practice that actually raises your marks10 minSign in to read
- Learning physics with AI10 minSign in to read
- Learning chemistry with AI10 minSign in to read
- Diagrams: it describes, you draw7 minSign in to read
- Learning computers and new skills10 minSign in to read
- Better English in ten minutes a day9 minSign in to read
Work, money and daily life
9 lessons
Use AI for job applications, interviews, government forms, exams, farming, a small shop, and helping your family.
- Writing a resume that is true10 minSign in to read
- Applications and formal letters9 minSign in to read
- Practising for an interview9 minSign in to read
- Understanding schemes, forms and offices10 minSign in to read
- Preparing for a government exam8 minSign in to read
- Farming questions it can and cannot answer9 minSign in to read
- For a shop or a small business9 minSign in to read
- Earning online, honestly9 minSign in to read
- Helping your family with AI9 minSign in to read
Staying safe
8 lessons
Protect your privacy, your money and your family from AI scams, and know when using AI is the wrong choice.
- What you must never type into an AI8 minSign in to read
- What happens to what you type9 minSign in to read
- AI scams and how they work9 minSign in to read
- Spotting fake pictures, voices and videos9 minSign in to read
- Fake AI apps and copied websites8 minSign in to read
- Safety for girls and young women9 minSign in to read
- When using AI is cheating9 minSign in to read
- When AI is the wrong thing to use8 minSign in to read
The machine behind the answer
6 lessons
See where your question really goes: the tower, the cables under the sea, the data centre, the chips, and the electricity it all burns.
- Where your question actually goes9 minSign in to read
- Inside a data centre: where your AI answer is made9 minSign in to read
- The cables under the sea8 minSign in to read
- How much electricity and water does AI use?9 minSign in to read
- Who builds AI, and who pays for it8 minSign in to read
- Why is AI free, and who is really paying9 minSign in to read
Keeping up as it changes
5 lessons
Stay useful when the apps change every few months, and know which of your skills will still matter.
Routes
Short routes through the course
You do not have to read all 64 lessons in order. Each route is a short list of lessons chosen for one purpose.
Access
What you can read without an account
The first 5 lessons are open to everyone, with no sign-in. A free sign-in unlocks the other 59 and saves your place, so you can stop in the middle and carry on later, on any phone.
There is no fee to join, and no fee later.
