Stage 1 · Understand · Beginner
Working with LLMs
Learn to get reliable, useful results from AI assistants. Choose the right assistant and mode, write clear prompts, use proven patterns, work with documents, use search and reasoning tools, and check answers and protect your data, with no coding required.
7 lessons · 11 hr 30 min · Free
You will learn to
- ▸Choose an assistant, model and mode that suit a task
- ▸Write prompts with clear task, context, input, constraints and format
- ▸Apply patterns such as examples, steps, structured output and chaining
- ▸Give a model documents and context, and get answers you can trace to a source
- ▸Use search, reasoning and code execution appropriately, and know their risks
- ▸Check outputs, protect sensitive data and recognize prompt injection
Before you start
- ·Comfortable with everyday IT concepts such as files, APIs and logs
- ·Recommended: complete AI Foundations for IT Professionals first, or know what a language model is
- ·A free account with at least one chat assistant, ideally two, to try the exercises
Syllabus
- 01Choosing and using an assistantModels versus products, the controls that matter, and a two-assistant test.1 hr
- 02Prompting basicsThe five parts of a good prompt and the habit of iterating.1 hr 30 min
- 03Prompt patterns that workExamples, steps, formats, chaining and self-review.1 hr 30 min
- 04Context and documentsContext windows, grounding answers in a source, and long documents.1 hr 30 min
- 05Search, reasoning and toolsReasoning modes, web search, deep research, code execution and connectors.1 hr 30 min
- 06Verify and stay safeChecking answers, privacy rules, prompt injection and a personal policy.1 hr 30 min
- 07Capstone: your prompt playbookBuild and test reusable prompts for five real tasks.3 hr