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Introduction to Claude for Beginners

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SkillsBooster Academy

Introduction to Claude for Beginners

Anton Voroniuk

Instructor: Anton Voroniuk

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Gain insight into a topic and learn the fundamentals.

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Beginner level

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7 hours to complete
Gain insight into a topic and learn the fundamentals.

57 reviews

Beginner level

Recommended experience

7 hours to complete

What you'll learn

  • Use Claude to draft workplace communications, analyze documents and spreadsheets, research with sources, and automate file-based tasks.

  • Choose the right Claude tool for each task and review its outputs for accuracy, bias, privacy, and risk before acting.

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Taught in English
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There are 8 modules in this course

Wondering why your prompts to Claude keep coming back generic, and how to get a result you can actually use the first time you ask, not the third? This module answers exactly that question. By the end of this module you will turn a real task from your own work into a structured prompt that produces something usable on the first try. You’ll audit honestly how deliberately you use Claude today, learn the five-part CLEAR framework for turning a vague ask into a precise one, and apply it to rewrite one of your own real tasks, comparing the result against a plain, unstructured prompt. You will also learn to recognize the four situations where no amount of prompt-writing skill helps — repetition, your own files, visual output, and anything that needs to run on its own — so you know exactly what the rest of this course solves and why. This module is designed for anyone who already uses Claude occasionally but hasn’t yet built it into a deliberate habit. No technical background or prior AI experience is required — every exercise runs directly in a standard Claude chat. You’ll finish with a tested, reusable prompt built on a real task from your job, and a clear sense of which Claude surface to reach for next time a task lands on your desk.

What's included

4 videos1 reading1 assignment1 ungraded lab

Wondering how to write professional emails, structured reports, and reliable meeting recaps faster without losing clarity using Claude? This module answers exactly that question. By the end of this module you will draft and refine the everyday writing that makes up most of a workweek, using Claude. You’ll write clear, persuasive emails built around a specific goal rather than a generic request, structure reports and proposals around the sections your reader actually needs, and turn messy meeting notes or transcripts into a recap with real decisions and real owners. You will also learn the single instruction that keeps a recap trustworthy: telling Claude to flag what wasn’t said instead of guessing it, so a gap gets noticed instead of quietly becoming a wrong fact. This module is designed for working professionals, managers, and team leads who want to streamline their daily business writing. No technical background or prompt-writing experience is required — every exercise runs directly in a standard Claude chat. You’ll finish having rewritten one real email and one real meeting transcript of your own, plus a set of reusable templates for emails, reports, and recaps, ready to apply to your daily writing immediately.

What's included

4 videos1 reading1 assignment

Wondering how to pull exactly what you need out of a long document, get straight answers from a spreadsheet, and research a claim without taking the first answer on faith using Claude? This module answers exactly that question. By the end of this module you will handle the everyday documents, data, and research questions that come up in any job, using Claude. You’ll drop in a lengthy PDF and extract only the specific things you need, with page references so you can verify them yourself, ask a spreadsheet direct questions instead of building a formula, and search the web for a claim while checking what you find before repeating it as fact. You will also set up a Project, so recurring background and files carry into every new conversation instead of being re-explained each time. This module is designed for professionals who regularly work with documents, spreadsheets, or research and want faster, more reliable answers from their own material. No technical background is required — every exercise runs directly within Claude on a standard account. You’ll finish having turned one real document of your own into a summary, a table, and a list of next actions, and a Project set up and ready for ongoing work.

What's included

4 videos1 reading1 ungraded lab

Wondering how to eliminate repetitive prompting and build reusable, standardized workflows with Claude Skills? This module answers exactly that question. By the end of this module you will create, test, and scale custom Skills inside Claude to automate recurring document workflows. You’ll identify repetitive prompt patterns, understand how Claude triggers and selects a specific Skill, test a Skill in a live scenario before trusting it, process Office and PDF documents using ready-to-use Skills, enforce consistent output across every run, and combine multiple Skills into a single reusable system. You will also examine data security and privacy practices worth having in place before uploading sensitive files for a Skill to process. This module is designed for professionals, analysts, and operations staff who want to automate recurring document workflows and establish consistent output standards. No coding experience or technical background is required — every exercise and configuration runs directly within Claude on a standard account. You’ll finish with a functional Document-to-Action-Plan Skill, ready to convert a complex document into a structured execution plan immediately.

What's included

7 videos1 reading1 assignment1 ungraded lab

Wondering how to delegate local file tasks and data extraction to Claude safely, and have recurring work happen on its own instead of being re-requested every time? This module answers exactly that question. By the end of this module you will delegate real file operations to Claude and set up recurring work that runs without you asking again. You’ll distinguish delegating a file task from a normal chat request, understand exactly what Claude can and can’t see once a folder is connected, automate the organization of a cluttered folder, extract structured data from a batch of receipt photos into one clean spreadsheet, and turn a one-time task into a task that runs on a schedule on its own. You will also examine the core guardrails of working this way — reviewing a proposed plan before it runs, permission boundaries, and what to do if something needs to be undone. This module is designed for professionals, analysts, and knowledge workers who want to automate recurring desktop and file-handling work. No programming or system administration background is required — every exercise uses a standard Claude account. You’ll finish with a functional Project Research Hub, ready to automate local research and document handling immediately.

What's included

5 videos1 reading1 ungraded lab

Wondering how to turn a design brief into structured wireframes and a polished landing page layout using Claude Design? This module answers exactly that question. By the end of this module you will translate a creative brief into an interactive, ready-to-present design asset. You’ll master the handful of details that turn a vague prompt into a precise design instruction, read a brief the way a designer would, build a cohesive visual system instead of a page that looks thrown together, construct an initial wireframe, refine and customize the layout, and prepare the finished project for presentation and export. You will also draw on a dedicated prompt library for UI and landing-page design to keep your layout consistent and visually coherent. This module is designed for designers, product managers, web creators, and marketers who want to accelerate their visual ideation and wireframing. No coding background is required — every exercise runs with a standard setup using Claude Design. You’ll finish with a fully designed landing page project, ready to export and present to stakeholders or a development team immediately.

What's included

7 videos1 reading1 ungraded lab

Wondering how to set up, prompt, and automate a recurring workflow with terminal-based AI using Claude Code? This module answers exactly that question. By the end of this module you will execute end-to-end task automation and build a lightweight interactive tool without writing manual code. You’ll understand the core differences between a chat interface and a terminal-driven agent, complete a step-by-step installation, structure clear task descriptions and prompt sequences from a creative brief, automate an email campaign, and generate a weekly performance report. You will also learn non-technical debugging methods for troubleshooting an execution error and refining an AI-generated output with confidence. This module is designed for non-technical professionals, marketers, operations staff, and analysts who want to use terminal-based automation without engineering experience. No prior programming background is required — every setup step and command is guided from scratch. You’ll finish with a functional Personal Decision Tool, ready to run an automated decision-making workflow immediately.

What's included

6 videos1 reading1 assignment1 ungraded lab

Wondering how to safely evaluate an AI output, catch a hallucination before it becomes a decision, and know when to trust a result versus verify it using Claude? This module answers exactly that question. By the end of this module you will apply verification methods that let you safely handle sensitive tasks and maintain quality control across your own AI workflows. You’ll identify hallucinations, overconfidence, and common AI errors, detect bias in a generated output before it shapes a decision, handle sensitive or high-stakes information responsibly, and maintain human oversight and accountability throughout. You will also move from treating Claude as a simple prompt-and-response tool toward a structured working partnership, applying a practical checklist to systematically verify what you’re given before you act on it. This module is designed for professionals, analysts, managers, and creators who need to ensure accuracy, compliance, and safety in high-stakes AI-assisted work. No technical background is required — every concept and verification framework applies directly within a standard Claude account. You’ll finish with a practical evaluation checklist for verifying AI output, ready to safeguard your own professional workflows immediately.

What's included

4 videos1 reading1 assignment

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