Skill Course
AI Productivity Essentials
Use AI as a practical work partner without outsourcing your judgment.
Learning objectives
Choose appropriate AI tools for everyday tasks
Give AI useful context and constraints
Verify claims and reduce hallucination risk
Use AI for research, learning, writing and analysis
Work with documents, tables and repetitive office tasks
Protect confidential information and use AI responsibly
Course coverage
What modern AI can and cannot do
Prompt structure: task, context, constraints, examples and output format
Iterative prompting, critique, comparison and verification
Web research, source evaluation, synthesis and citation discipline
Learning: explanations, questioning, practice and study planning
Writing: ideation, editing, summarization and professional communication
Documents, spreadsheets, data analysis and presentation support
Meetings, notes, planning and repeatable personal workflows
Hallucinations, bias, privacy, confidential data and copyright awareness
Building a personal AI work system without over-automation