Claude: Essentials

A practical introduction to getting real work done with Claude. Learners navigate the interface and models, write effective prompts, organize work in Projects, and create documents and apps with Artifacts. By the end they can confidently use Claude for everyday writing, analysis, and research.

What this course covers

The course runs across 8 topics, each one a short adaptive session rather than a recorded lecture. The tutor explains the idea, works an example, checks understanding, and adjusts the next step to the answer given.

Navigating the Claude Interface and Selecting Models — An introduction to the Claude user interface, understanding the differences between the current model families (Haiku, Sonnet, Opus), and selecting the right model for specific tasks.
Foundations of Prompting in Claude — Learn the core principles of writing effective prompts for Claude, including providing clear context, setting persona, and using XML tags to structure inputs.
Advanced Prompting: Few-Shot Prompting and Chain of Thought — Practice advanced prompting techniques by giving Claude examples (few-shot prompting) and guiding it to think step-by-step for complex reasoning tasks.
Working with File Uploads and Context — Learn how to upload documents, data files, and code to Claude. Practice extracting key information, summarizing long texts, and querying complex data sources.
Organizing Work with Claude Projects — Understand how to set up Projects, define custom system instructions for a project, upload a shared knowledge base, and collaborate within a structured workspace.
Generating and Iterating with Artifacts — Enable and use Artifacts to generate, view, and refine standalone content like code, websites, SVGs, and documents in a dedicated side-by-side window.
Building Interactive Prototypes in Artifacts — A hands-on exercise using Artifacts to build and instantly preview a functional interactive tool or dashboard based on your custom prompt requirements.
Putting It All Together: Real-World Workflow Automation — Synthesize your skills in a final capstone lab: create a Project, upload reference files, use advanced prompting to analyze the data, and generate a final interactive Artifact report.

Skills you build

Results are measured against named skills in the OneRange taxonomy of more than 10,000 skills, so a manager sees proficiency per skill rather than a completion tick. This course maps to Prompt Crafting, Working with AI Tools, AI Literacy, Large Language Models (LLMs), Chain-of-Thought Prompting, Generative AI Concepts, Prompt Engineering, AI Tool Usage.

Prompt Crafting
Working with AI Tools
AI Literacy
Large Language Models (LLMs)
Chain-of-Thought Prompting
Generative AI Concepts
Prompt Engineering
AI Tool Usage

Who it is for

All employees. The material is pitched at beginner level, and takes roughly 120 minutes at a typical pace. Because every session adapts, someone who already knows a topic moves through it quickly instead of sitting through an explanation they do not need.

It sits in the Tool: Claude track of the Vero AI Catalog, and can be assigned to one person, a team, or the whole company.

How it is delivered and assessed

Delivery is conversational and interactive, including guided lab exercises. There is no video to sit through and no slide deck to click past.

Understanding is checked with a lab assessment of 5 items, with a pass mark of 70%.

Administrators can copy this course into their own library and adapt it — edit the outline, change the duration, swap the assessment format, or ground it in internal documentation so answers cite the company's own source material.

Also in this track

All Claude training courses →
Claude: Essentials — Data & Analysis Playbook — A focused, 30-minute playbook for doing data and analysis work in Claude. Learners run real tasks end to end - data cleanup, analysis, charts, and interpretation - and leave with repeatable workflows they can use the same day.
Claude Cowork: Essentials — A practical introduction to getting real work done with Claude Cowork. Learners connect folders, set the right permission mode, describe outcomes instead of steps, and produce finished documents, spreadsheets and research from their own files — while learning to review, correct and stay in control.
Claude: Essentials — Research Playbook — A focused, 30-minute playbook for doing research and synthesis work in Claude. Learners run real tasks end to end - sources, citations, deep dives, and verification - and leave with repeatable workflows they can use the same day.
Claude Cowork: Intro — A 20-minute first touch with Claude Cowork, the mode where Claude does the work rather than just answering. Learners see how Cowork differs from chat, run one real task on a folder of their own files, and learn what to check before trusting the result.
Claude: Intro — An absolute-baseline, 20-minute introduction to Claude for first-time users. Learners see what Claude is, how to access it, and how to send their first message and read the response. It removes the intimidation of a blank chat box so anyone can start.
Claude Essentials Proficiency — Measures whether someone can frame a long piece of work for Claude, give it the right source material, and judge the answer that comes back.
AI for Marketing Teams — Create, scale, and measure marketing with AI
Claude Mastery — Complete fluency in Claude from first touch to building

Frequently asked questions

How long does this course take?

It runs roughly 120 minutes at a typical pace. Because every session adapts, someone who already knows a topic moves through it quickly instead of sitting through an explanation they do not need.

How is it assigned to a team?

An administrator assigns it from the Vero dashboard to one person, a team, a department or the whole company, and sees progress and results per person and per skill.

Can we customise it with our own documents and terminology?

Yes. Administrators can copy this course into their own library and adapt it — edit the outline, change the duration, swap the assessment format, or ground it in internal documentation so answers cite the company's own source material.

Course code TUL-CLA-101.