Artificial Intelligence (AI) · Beginner level

Beginner level · Module 4 of 5 · 11 guided hours

Using AI Tools Effectively

Use AI assistants and tools for real tasks with clear prompts, careful checking and appropriate trust.

Learning objectives

  • Write clear prompts that produce useful outputs
  • Use AI tools for writing, summarising, translation and images
  • Verify AI outputs and decide when not to use AI

Topics

  • chat assistants and their settings
  • prompt basics: task, context, format
  • iterating on prompts
  • summarising and drafting
  • translation and image tools
  • verification habits

Lessons

  1. Lesson 1 Writing Good Prompts

    Give AI assistants clear tasks, context and formats to get useful results.

    taskcontextformatiteration

  2. Lesson 2 AI for Everyday Work

    Use AI tools to draft, summarise, translate and create images, and understand each tool's limits.

    draftingsummarisingmachine translationimage generation

  3. Lesson 3 Checking AI Outputs

    Verify facts, figures and sources in AI outputs and decide how much to trust them.

    verificationsources and citationsnumbers and datesappropriate trust

Practical activity

Complete three real tasks for the level project with AI tools — drafting a notice, summarising a report, translating a message — saving prompts, outputs and checks.

Expected outcomes

  • Effective, efficient use of AI tools
  • Habit of verifying outputs

Assessment

Portfolio of prompts, outputs and verification notes marked against a checklist.

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