Perplexity for Research

Learners use Perplexity for cited, up-to-date research and answers. The course covers search versus chat, working with citations and sources, Focus modes, Collections, and verifying answers. Participants finish able to run trustworthy research quickly.

What this course covers

The course runs across 6 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.

Search vs. Chat: Choosing Your Research Approach — Understand when to use Perplexity as a rapid search engine versus an interactive conversational partner. Practice framing initial queries to get the best starting results.
Navigating Citations and Verifying Sources — Learn how to trace Perplexity's answers back to their original sources. Practice evaluating the credibility of cited domains and cross-referencing claims to ensure accuracy.
Targeting Answers with Focus Modes — Explore Focus modes (such as Academic, Writing, YouTube, and Reddit) to restrict search parameters. Hands-on exercises selecting the right mode for specific research goals.
Organizing Research with Collections — Create and manage Collections to group related queries, set custom system prompts for specific projects, and collaborate with others on shared research threads.
Fact-Checking and Verifying Complex Answers — Develop a systematic workflow for verifying complex, multi-step answers. Practice identifying hallucination risks and using follow-up prompts to probe and validate data.
Comprehensive Capstone: The Trustworthy Research Workflow — Apply all learned skills in a live, timed research simulation. Start from a broad prompt, refine with Focus modes, organize in a Collection, and deliver a fully verified summary.

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 Summarizing & Synthesizing, Working with AI Tools, Prompt Engineering, Online Research Skills, Fact-Checking & Source Evaluation.

Summarizing & Synthesizing
Working with AI Tools
Prompt Engineering
Online Research Skills
Fact-Checking & Source Evaluation

Who it is for

Researchers, analysts, all employees. The material is pitched at beginner level, and takes roughly 90 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: Perplexity 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, branching scenario 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.

Frequently asked questions

How long does this course take?

It runs roughly 90 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-PPX-101.