Curious about AI? These online courses are for adults starting from scratch, including older adults returning to learning. Choose one tool, try a small task, and learn how to check the answer before you rely on it. You can begin with the AI tool you already have access to.

Choose your first AI course

AI for seniors and first-time learners

Start with a familiar task such as writing a thank-you note or making a checklist. A single question and one follow-up are enough for your first practice session. If the answer is too long, ask for three short bullet points in plain language.

Try this prompt

Help me write a short thank-you note to a friend who helped me move. Keep it warm and simple, and give me two versions.

Read both versions and edit the one that sounds like you. Use made-up details while you practice, keep passwords and private information out of prompts, and verify important facts with a trusted source.

What to learn next

Once you can write a clear prompt and check the answer, try a coding course if you want to build something or an AI agents course if you want help with a task that takes several steps. The course overviews below explain what you will practice and show the course outline.

How to Use Claude for Beginners

A practical starter course for learning Claude by Anthropic, designed for new AI users who want clear guidance, everyday confidence, and useful results. You will practice prompt writing, use Claude for drafting, research, planning, and decision support, explore where it performs best, understand its limits, and complete a focused capstone project.

How to Use ChatGPT for Beginners

An approachable beginner course for ChatGPT by OpenAI, built for learners who want to turn curiosity into practical skill. You will learn how to ask stronger questions, organize writing and research tasks, brainstorm ideas, summarize information, compare outputs, recognize limitations, and finish with a real applied project.

How to Use Gemini for Beginners

A guided introduction to Gemini by Google, created for learners who want to use AI across everyday productivity, learning, and planning. You will build confidence with prompts, explore Gemini’s strengths in information work, practice useful workflows, evaluate responses carefully, and apply your new skills through a capstone activity.

How to Code Using Claude

A hands on coding course focused on Claude Code, created for learners who want help building, explaining, improving, and testing code. You will learn how to give Claude useful context, review what it creates, troubleshoot errors, work through small development tasks, understand safety habits, and complete a multi file coding project.

How to Code Using ChatGPT

A beginner friendly coding course centered on Codex, ChatGPT’s AI coding assistant, for learners ready to build with AI support. You will practice describing software goals, generating code, reading outputs, debugging problems, improving structure, testing results, and completing a guided project without needing prior programming experience.

How to Code Using Gemini

A practical coding course for Gemini Code Assist, built to help learners move from simple requests to working software tasks. You will learn how to frame coding problems, ask for explanations, revise generated code, identify mistakes, use AI during testing, follow safety guardrails, and create a complete multi file project.

How to Use AI Agents with Claude

A focused course on using Claude’s agent capabilities in Chrome, designed for learners who want AI to help with connected tasks, tools, and workflows. You will learn how to brief an agent clearly, define boundaries, connect useful context, monitor actions, evaluate results, manage risks, and complete a multi step agent project.

How to Use AI Agents with ChatGPT

A practical course on ChatGPT agent mode, created for learners who want to delegate structured digital tasks with more clarity and control. You will practice writing strong agent instructions, connecting tools and data, checking progress, correcting course, understanding safety limits, and applying agent workflows to a real project.

How to Use AI Agents with Gemini

A guided course on Gemini Agent, built for learners who want to use AI agents thoughtfully across research, planning, and task execution. You will learn how to set goals, provide useful context, supervise agent behavior, work with connected resources, evaluate outcomes, apply safety judgment, and complete a multi step capstone project.