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ChatGPTMicrosoft CopilotPerplexityGrok/xAIOllamaClaudeAI APIsAI Fluency
AllFoundationalChatGPT WorkflowsGrok WorkflowsPerplexity ResearchOllama Local AI LabCopilot WorkflowsCopilot AdoptionCopilot BuildersAgentic DevelopmentAPI & Cloud IntegrationsModel Context ProtocolAI Fluency Framework
AI Fluency FrameworkBeginner

AI Fluency: Framework & Foundations

Start with AcademAI's free AI Fluency foundation course before choosing a paid mastery path.

6 modules2-3 hours
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FoundationalBeginner

Claude 101

Learn how to use Claude for everyday work tasks, understand core features, and explore resources for more advanced learning.

5 modules2-3 hours
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Claude Code & DevelopmentIntermediate

Claude Code in Action

Use Claude Code across terminal, IDE, desktop, and web workflows with clear project instructions, bounded permissions, sandbox checks, tests, diff review, and human approval.

6 modules3-4 hours
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Claude Code & DevelopmentIntermediate

Introduction to Claude Cowork

Learn to work alongside Claude on your real files and projects. Hands-on coverage of the Cowork task loop, plugins, and workflows.

6 modules3-4 hours
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Claude Code & DevelopmentIntermediate

Introduction to Agent Skills

Build, test, and share Claude Code Skills as focused directories with a required SKILL.md, supporting resources, narrow tool access, and a reviewable evaluation loop.

6 modules2-3 hours
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Claude Code & DevelopmentAdvanced

Introduction to Subagents

Design and evaluate focused Claude Code subagents with file-based instructions, narrow tools, isolated context, explicit result contracts, safe parallel work, and human review.

6 modules3-4 hours
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API & Cloud IntegrationsIntermediate

Building with the Claude API

Build a production-minded Claude API workflow with the Messages API, official SDKs, multimodal input, structured outputs, tool approval, batching, evaluation, and rollback.

7 modules4-5 hours
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API & Cloud IntegrationsAdvanced

Claude with Amazon Bedrock

First-of-its-kind training for integrating Claude models with AWS services through Amazon Bedrock.

7 modules3-4 hours
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API & Cloud IntegrationsAdvanced

Claude with Google Cloud's Vertex AI

Full spectrum of working with Anthropic models through Google Cloud's Vertex AI platform.

7 modules3-4 hours
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Model Context ProtocolIntermediate

Introduction to Model Context Protocol

Build and verify a small MCP server and client with current protocol roles, stdio and Streamable HTTP transports, bounded capabilities, and explicit trust review.

7 modules3-4 hours
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Model Context ProtocolAdvanced

Model Context Protocol: Advanced Topics

Design, secure, observe, and migrate remote MCP services with current lifecycle behavior, Streamable HTTP, explicit authorization, bounded concurrency, and a tested rollback path.

8 modules4-5 hours
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AI Fluency FrameworkIntermediate

AI Fluency for Educators

Empowers faculty, instructional designers, and educational leaders to apply AI Fluency into teaching practice.

6 modules3-4 hours
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AI Fluency FrameworkBeginner

AI Fluency for Students

Empowers students to develop AI Fluency skills that enhance learning, career planning, and academic success.

6 modules2-3 hours
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AI Fluency FrameworkAdvanced

Teaching AI Fluency

Empowers academic faculty, instructional designers, and others to teach and assess AI Fluency in instructor-led settings.

6 modules3-4 hours
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AI Fluency FrameworkBeginner

AI Fluency for Nonprofits

Empowers nonprofit professionals to develop AI fluency to increase organizational impact while staying true to mission and values.

6 modules2-3 hours
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OpenAI FoundationsBeginner

OpenAI 101: AI Foundations

Classify an AI task by product surface, account or workspace, data boundary, current availability, execution owner, and human decision owner before work begins.

5 modules2-3 hours
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ChatGPT WorkflowsBeginner

ChatGPT Practical Fluency

Use a generate-inspect-verify loop, then choose a chat, project, Custom GPT, skill, or reusable instruction package only after a current availability check.

5 modules3-4 hours
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ChatGPT WorkflowsIntermediate

ChatGPT for Work: Role-Based Workflows

Build workflow briefs for writing, marketing, education, small business, and nonprofit work with a decision owner, approved source package, output contract, critique pass, and approval gate.

5 modules3-4 hours
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OpenAI Codex & BuildersIntermediate

Codex for Builders

Choose a Codex surface, define repository instructions and permission boundaries, then inspect, plan, edit, test, review, and hand off work with evidence.

5 modules3-4 hours
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API & Cloud IntegrationsIntermediate

Building with the OpenAI API

Build reliable OpenAI API applications by choosing a direct or orchestrated path, keeping keys server-side, defining structured and multimodal data contracts, separating execution ownership, and shipping with evals and production controls.

5 modules4-5 hours
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Grok FoundationsBeginner

Grok 101: Practical Fluency

Choose a Grok product surface by task, account, data boundary, current availability, and the human review the work requires.

5 modules2-3 hours
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Grok Business & ConnectorsIntermediate

Grok for Business Workspaces

Use Grok in team settings with account and workspace checks, approved context, privacy boundaries, adoption playbooks, and review ownership.

5 modules3-4 hours
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Grok Business & ConnectorsIntermediate

Grok Connectors for Knowledge Work

Use current Grok connector options and external integrations with minimum useful access, source boundaries, permission ownership, and review loops.

5 modules3-4 hours
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API & Cloud IntegrationsIntermediate

Building with the xAI API

Build reliable xAI API workflows with server-side keys, Responses state choices, tool-execution boundaries, validated outputs, and production review gates.

5 modules4-5 hours
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Grok BuildersIntermediate

Grok Build in Action

Use documented Grok Build workflows with current release-status checks, repository inspection, scoped changes, tests, permissions, and handoff review.

5 modules3-4 hours
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Grok Media & VoiceIntermediate

Grok Imagine, Voice, and Multimodal Creation

Design source-checked Grok creative workflows across image, video, voice, and multimodal inputs with rights, consent, cost, and final-review boundaries.

5 modules3-4 hours
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Perplexity FoundationsBeginner

Perplexity 101: Research Fluency

Build a practical Perplexity foundation for answer-engine research, source trails, Learn Mode, privacy choices, and verification habits.

5 modules2-3 hours
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Perplexity Research & WorkflowsIntermediate

Perplexity Deep Research and Source Evaluation

Design deeper Perplexity research workflows that compare sources, expose disagreement, check evidence quality, and produce decision-ready briefs.

5 modules3-4 hours
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Perplexity Research & WorkflowsIntermediate

Perplexity Projects, Connectors, and Team Knowledge

Use Perplexity Projects for organized research, approved files and connectors, shared instructions, Computer tasks, collaboration, and maintained team knowledge.

5 modules3-4 hours
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Perplexity Research & WorkflowsIntermediate

Comet, Computer, and Personal Computer Workflows

Plan browser, cloud-task, and local-computer workflows with bounded access, source and action evidence, approvals, and rollback.

5 modules3-4 hours
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Perplexity BuildersIntermediate

Building with Perplexity APIs

Build current Perplexity API integrations with Search API for ranked results, Agent API for new web-grounded or multi-step work, and Sonar only when an existing response contract still depends on it.

5 modules4-5 hours
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Perplexity BuildersAdvanced

Perplexity MCP, Embeddings, and Research Agents

Design advanced Perplexity research-agent systems with MCP, embeddings, retrieval, source-aware agents, evaluation sets, and production security.

5 modules4-5 hours
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Microsoft Copilot FoundationsBeginner

Microsoft Copilot 101: Work-Safe AI Fluency

Choose the right Microsoft Copilot surface by checking product, account, license, grounding, permissions, available actions, and the human decision owner.

5 modules2-3 hours
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Microsoft Copilot FoundationsBeginner

Copilot Chat Practical Fluency

Use Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat for web-grounded drafting, summarizing, comparing, research, and planning while checking account, source, sensitivity, and review boundaries.

5 modules3-4 hours
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Microsoft 365 Copilot WorkflowsIntermediate

Microsoft 365 Copilot App Workflows

Design licensed Microsoft 365 Copilot workflows in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Teams, OneDrive, and SharePoint with signed-in-account, source, permission, and review checks.

5 modules4-5 hours
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Microsoft 365 Copilot WorkflowsIntermediate

Prompting Copilot: Repeatable Workflows

Move beyond prompt tips into reusable Copilot prompt systems, source packages, critique passes, team prompt cards, and quality rubrics.

5 modules3-4 hours
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Copilot Adoption & GovernanceIntermediate

Copilot Adoption, Governance, and ROI

Plan governed Copilot adoption with licensing and metering, user and agent inventory, data policy, publishing controls, measured pilots, escalation, and retirement.

5 modules3-4 hours
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Microsoft Copilot BuildersIntermediate

Copilot Studio and Agent Foundations

Design governed Copilot Studio agents with fit checks, instructions, knowledge, generative orchestration, tools, connection identity, consent, testing, escalation, and lifecycle controls.

5 modules4-5 hours
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GitHub Copilot BuildersIntermediate

GitHub Copilot for Agentic Builders

Use GitHub Copilot across inline, chat, IDE agent mode, Copilot cloud agent, formerly called Copilot coding agent, CLI, GitHub.com, pull-request, Spaces, and MCP workflows with repository and human-review controls.

5 modules4-5 hours
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Ollama Local AI LabBeginner

Ollama 101: Local AI Lab Foundations

Build a dependable Ollama lab by checking model capabilities, machine fit, execution location, and privacy boundaries before each run.

5 modules2-3 hours
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Ollama Local AI LabBeginner

Running Models with Ollama

Operate Ollama through the CLI and API with explicit installed, loaded, service, context, memory, residency, and troubleshooting checks.

5 modules3-4 hours
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Ollama Model CraftIntermediate

Modelfile and Model Craft

Create inspectable Ollama model configurations with Modelfile directives, provenance, license review, fixed behavior tests, and model cards.

5 modules3-4 hours
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Ollama Builder IntegrationsIntermediate

Building with the Ollama API

Build server-controlled Ollama applications with native generate, chat, and embedding routes plus explicit OpenAI-compatibility and cloud credential limits.

5 modules4-5 hours
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Ollama Builder IntegrationsIntermediate

Ollama Tools, Search, and Retrieval

Build source-visible Ollama workflows with model-specific tool calling, structured output, thinking, web search, embeddings, RAG, and MCP controls.

5 modules4-5 hours
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Ollama Agent LabIntermediate

Ollama Launch and Agent Workflows

Inspect ollama launch integrations and run agent workflows with explicit model, context, file, command, network, approval, rollback, and review boundaries.

5 modules3-4 hours
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Ollama Local AI LabAdvanced

Ollama Operations, Safety, and Lab Playbook

Build an owned Ollama lab playbook for runtime evidence, visible cloud fallback, credentials, tool security, fixed evals, maintenance, and recovery.

5 modules4-5 hours
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