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A Try It exercise called "Your first prompt": a short scenario about moving a team meeting from 2 p.m. to 3 p.m., then numbered steps to send a prompt in ChatGPT, Copilot, Gemini or Claude, paste the reply, and note one thing to keep or change. — From AI Foundations, Lesson 1, a free preview. You do the task in your own AI tool, then a quick check explains the answer. Try this lesson free

A quick check question about an AI tool that confidently states a rent late fee. The answer "It may be a guess, because the tool can't see Fernhill's leases" is marked correct, with an explanation of why asking again proves nothing and the fact should be checked in the lease. — From AI Foundations, Lesson 1, a free preview. You do the task in your own AI tool, then a quick check explains the answer. Try this lesson free

Courses

AI Foundations: Understanding Today's AI Tools
Learn how AI chat tools like ChatGPT and Copilot work, write clear prompts, keep private information out, and check AI's work before you use it.
Length: 3h 26m · 12 lessons in 3 modules · Level: Beginner · Certificate of completion · Price: $19.99 one-time, lifetime access
Prompting Fundamentals
Learn the building blocks of effective prompts: role, objective, context, audience, tone, and format.
Length: 2h 5m · 12 lessons in 3 modules · Level: Beginner · Certificate of completion · Price: $19.99 one-time, lifetime access
AI Privacy, Safety, and Responsible Use
Use AI tools at work without putting private, client, or company information at risk. Learn what is safe to share, how to check AI output, and what to do when something goes wrong.
Length: 1h 10m · 8 lessons in 3 modules · Level: Beginner · Certificate of completion · Price: $9.99 one-time, lifetime access
ChatGPT Plugins and Skills: Package Your Best Work
Turn the tasks your team repeats into ChatGPT skills and plugins that anyone can run the same way. Test them, share them safely, and move your old custom GPTs before they retire.
Length: 1h 30m · 6 lessons in 3 modules · Level: Intermediate · Certificate of completion · Price: $9.99 one-time, lifetime access
Microsoft Copilot for Everyday Work
Use Microsoft Copilot at work to summarize and draft emails in Outlook, recap Teams meetings, write first drafts in Word, and outline slides in PowerPoint, safely and with every fact checked.
Length: 2h 52m · 12 lessons in 4 modules · Level: Beginner · Certificate of completion · Price: $19.99 one-time, lifetime access
AI for Email and Professional Communication
Use ChatGPT, Copilot, Gemini or Claude to draft, fix and shorten work emails, then check every fact before you send.
Length: 5h 10m · 20 lessons in 5 modules · Level: Beginner · Certificate of completion · Price: $24.99 one-time, lifetime access
AI with Excel: Formulas and Troubleshooting
Use AI to write, fix, and explain Excel formulas. Describe your sheet clearly, test the answer on rows you can check, and solve lookup, logic, error, and cleanup problems faster.
Length: 1h 29m · 6 lessons in 3 modules · Level: Beginner · Certificate of completion · Price: $9.99 one-time, lifetime access
AI for Managers and Team Leaders
Use AI to communicate clearly, delegate smarter, prepare for difficult conversations, and develop your team, while protecting your people's privacy and keeping every decision yours.
Length: 2h 54m · 11 lessons in 5 modules · Level: Beginner · Certificate of completion · Price: $19.99 one-time, lifetime access
AI for Content and Copy
Use AI to write a whole campaign that works together: landing page, blog post, emails, social posts, ads, and review replies, all aimed at one goal. You leave with a finished, checked campaign kit.
Length: 3h 29m · 12 lessons in 4 modules · Level: Beginner · Certificate of completion · Price: $19.99 one-time, lifetime access
AI for Data Analysis: Clean, Analyze and Explain Your Numbers
Use AI to clean a messy spreadsheet, summarize it, pick the right chart and explain it in plain words, then check every number before you share it.
Length: 3h 30m · 12 lessons in 4 modules · Level: Intermediate · Certificate of completion · Price: $24.99 one-time, lifetime access
AI for HR and Operations: Safe Everyday Uses
Use AI for the everyday paperwork of hiring, onboarding, policies and operations, without putting your people's private information or job decisions at risk.
Length: 3h 27m · 12 lessons in 4 modules · Level: Beginner · Certificate of completion · Price: $19.99 one-time, lifetime access
AI for Marketing Foundations
Use AI for real marketing work without losing your brand, your facts, or your customers' trust. You leave with a brand brief and a one-page AI marketing playbook.
Length: 3h 23m · 14 lessons in 4 modules · Level: Beginner · Certificate of completion · Price: $19.99 one-time, lifetime access
AI Meeting Notes Done Right: Note-Takers, Consent and Follow-Ups
Use AI note-takers the right way at work. Pick the right tool, ask before you record, check the notes, keep private talks private, and send clear follow-ups.
Length: 1h 30m · 7 lessons in 3 modules · Level: Beginner · Certificate of completion · Price: $9.99 one-time, lifetime access
AI Workspace Building Blocks: Projects, Artifacts, Skills and Agents
Most teams use AI as a simple chat box. Learn the building blocks inside ChatGPT and Claude (projects, artifacts, memory, skills, connectors, and scheduled tasks) and put them together into your first safe, human-approved "AI employee."
Length: 2h 57m · 13 lessons in 4 modules · Level: Beginner · Certificate of completion · Price: $19.99 one-time, lifetime access
Build No-Code AI Agents: Scheduled Tasks, Connectors and Safe Automation
Design, test and safely run a small AI agent on a schedule, with only the access it needs, a person who approves before anything is sent, a log and an off switch.
Length: 5h 17m · 20 lessons in 6 modules · Level: Advanced · Certificate of completion · Price: $29.99 one-time, lifetime access
Build Your Own Personal Dashboard with AI, Part 1: Your Daily Page
Describe the page you want, and an AI assistant builds it. Make a one-page dashboard for your day with the date, priorities, quick links, notes, and a to-do list that remembers, with no coding. Part 1 of 2.
Length: 1h 25m · 6 lessons in 3 modules · Level: Beginner · Certificate of completion · Price: $9.99 one-time, lifetime access
Build Your Own Personal Dashboard with AI, Part 2: Track, Chart, and Connect
Grow your one-page AI-built dashboard with a habit and goal tracker, a small chart from your own numbers, and (optionally) your real calendar and inbox, with no coding. Part 2 of 2.
Length: 1h 30m · 6 lessons in 3 modules · Level: Beginner · Certificate of completion · Price: $9.99 one-time, lifetime access
ChatGPT at Work: Setup and Everyday Workflows
Connect your work accounts to ChatGPT, teach it your writing voice, and put two useful jobs on a schedule. For teams on Business or Enterprise plans.
Length: 2h 2m · 18 lessons in 5 modules · Level: Beginner · Certificate of completion · Price: $19.99 one-time, lifetime access
Claude for Everyday Work
Hands-on, safety-first practice with Claude: ask about files, search with sources, set up projects, make documents, connect apps and save skills.
Length: 3h 29m · 13 lessons in 4 modules · Level: Beginner · Certificate of completion · Price: $19.99 one-time, lifetime access
Leading an AI Rollout: Pilot, Measure and Train Your Team
Run a small, safe AI pilot with your team, measure what really changed, and decide with real numbers whether to expand it, fix it or stop.
Length: 5h 2m · 20 lessons in 6 modules · Level: Advanced · Certificate of completion · Price: $29.99 one-time, lifetime access
Parenting in the Age of AI
What your kids do with AI and how to keep them safe. A free course for parents of kids 6 to 17 on ChatGPT, AI companion apps, parental controls, and homework.
Length: 1h 8m · 6 lessons in 3 modules · Level: Beginner · Certificate of completion · Price: free with an account
Prompting Beyond the Basics: Templates, Steps and Checks
Turn the prompts you already write into tested templates, step-by-step chains and simple checks, so you can show where every fact in an AI answer came from.
Length: 3h 29m · 13 lessons in 4 modules · Level: Intermediate · Certificate of completion · Price: $24.99 one-time, lifetime access
Write Your Company's AI Policy
Plan on about 3 hours across five short sittings, and leave with a one-page draft of your company's AI policy, ready for your lawyer: roles, data rules, tool approvals, incident steps, and a rollout plan.
Length: 3h 7m · 13 lessons in 5 modules · Level: Beginner · Certificate of completion · Price: $19.99 one-time, lifetime access

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Who's behind AIvanced Academy

James Finley is the founder and CEO of AIvanced Academy. He built it for the professionals he kept seeing handed powerful AI tools with no real training on how to use them well, or safely. The courses are made of short, hands-on lessons built around the work you already do, and every course covers using AI safely and responsibly. Read more about the founder

Pricing

Each course has its own price (today $9.99 to $29.99). Membership is $29.99 per month or $249.99 per year. Companies can buy a Teams plan.

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