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Prompt Engineering & Working with Generative AI

Write prompts that get reliable, high-quality results: the anatomy of a strong prompt, few-shot examples, structure, chaining, working with documents, data and images, reusable templates — and using GenAI well for research, writing and analysis.

📘 6 modules⏱ About 3 hours✅ Knowledge check per module🎓 Final assessment & certificate🎯 No prerequisites

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Modules

  1. 1

    How prompts work

    What the model sees, the 'brilliant new colleague' test, iterating, and how models differ.

    20 min
  2. 2

    Anatomy of a strong prompt

    Role, task, context, format, constraints and examples — with a reusable template.

    25 min
  3. 3

    Core prompting techniques

    Few-shot examples, tags and delimiters, step-by-step thinking, prompt chaining, permission to say 'I don't know', and critique.

    30 min
  4. 4

    Documents, data and images

    Long documents, quote-first grounding, spreadsheets and data, multimodal prompting, output formats and image generation.

    25 min
  5. 5

    Templates and reusable workflows

    Prompt templates, custom instructions, Projects and custom assistants, testing prompts, versioning and automation safeguards.

    25 min
  6. 6

    GenAI for research, writing and analysis

    Research prompts and source checking, writing workflows, decision support, briefing agents, responsible use and a prompt toolkit.

    25 min