AI Essentials Course
AI Essentials Course
AI Essentials is our complete starting point for using AI properly at work, for anyone who wants to go from curious to genuinely capable. It stacks two full tracks — AI Foundations, which teaches you how these tools actually behave, and AI Essentials, which puts that to work on the jobs that fill your week. Across 60 lessons and 14 hours of video you learn how to prompt well, how to spot output you should not trust, and how to build a personal AI workflow you will still be using in six months.
Who this course is for
- Professionals in any role who want something practical rather than theoretical
- People who have tried ChatGPT, got mediocre results, and suspect they are doing it wrong
- Anyone who needs to be credible about AI in their job without becoming a developer
- Complete beginners — no prior experience or technical background is assumed
Full module list
AI Foundations track — 5 modules, 28 lessons, 6 hours
- F1 – AI without the jargon — 5 lessons, 63 min
- F2 – The tool landscape — 6 lessons, 75 min
- F3 – Prompting that gets results — 7 lessons, 92 min
- F4 – Reliable output — 6 lessons, 79 min
- F5 – Privacy, data, ethics and responsible use — 4 lessons, 49 min
AI Essentials track — 7 modules, 32 lessons, 8 hours
- G1 – Everyday writing and communication — 6 lessons, 78 min
- G2 – Research, learning and summarizing — 5 lessons, 58 min
- G3 – Planning, productivity and decisions — 4 lessons, 54 min
- G4 – Images, design and creativity — 5 lessons, 60 min
- G5 – Voice, multimodal and mobile — 4 lessons, 47 min
- G6 – Your first automations — 4 lessons, 47 min
- G7 – Build and maintain your personal AI workflow — 4 lessons, 46 min
What you will be able to do by the end
You will understand why an AI model predicts rather than looks up, which means you will stop being surprised by the mistakes it makes. You will write prompts with proper context, examples, role and format control, and keep a set of reusable templates for the tasks you repeat. You will draft and rewrite email and documents at speed without sounding like a robot, summarise long threads and reports reliably, research with sources you can actually check, generate and edit images, and build your first working automation. Most importantly you will know when not to trust the output and what to do about it.
How the course works
Everything is video-on-demand and self-paced, so you can start the moment you sign up and fit lessons around real work. Lessons run roughly 10 to 16 minutes each, are watchable on desktop, tablet or phone, and every one finishes with something concrete you can apply the same day. The teaching is tool-neutral across ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Microsoft Copilot and NotebookLM, so you are never locked into one vendor and you learn to pick the right tool for each job rather than forcing one tool to do everything. There is no exam to cram for and no prior technical background assumed.
Access and what is included
Your purchase includes 30 days of full access to all 60 lessons from the moment you sign up, on any device, with no additional charges. If you would rather try before you buy, the free AI course gives you 14 lessons at no cost and lifetime access.
Related reading
Useful background before you start: our ChatGPT guide for Irish professionals, our practical guide to prompt engineering, our Microsoft Copilot guide and our overview of the best AI tools for Irish businesses. You can browse all of our AI training courses in Ireland in one place.
14 hours - 60 lessons - 30 days access -
EUR 99
| Duration: | 30 Days |
| Price: | €99.00 |
