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Working Smarter with Claude Chat
Get more done with Claude by learning its core chat capabilities. The course covers the CLEAR framework for structuring prompts, attaching documents and images, and using persistent memory across...
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$835USD
Duration
1 day
Course Code
AI-CLD-1001
Available Formats
Classroom
Overview
Course Description
Get more done with Claude by learning its core chat capabilities. The course covers the CLEAR framework for structuring prompts, attaching documents and images, and using persistent memory across conversations. Web search brings current information into responses, extended thinking handles complex reasoning, and Research drives multi-step investigation. Projects, Project Instructions, Artifacts, and Styles scope Claude to a specific body of work and produce shareable output that matches a team’s tone. Participants learn to recognize hallucinations, fabricated citations, and prompt injection before output reaches a downstream reader, set trust boundaries, decide what to delegate, and grow autonomy alongside AI. Hands-on labs produce a project-scoped prompt set, a published artifact, and a personal trust-boundary checklist. The course is designed for working professionals across business, technical, and operations roles, with labs framed around realistic workplace tasks.
Skills Gained
By the end of this course, participants will be able to:
- Apply the CLEAR framework to produce reliable Claude prompts
- Identify when to use web search, extended thinking, or Research
- Configure Projects, Artifacts, and Styles to scope Claude to specific work
- Evaluate AI-generated output for accuracy and fabrication risk
- Establish appropriate trust boundaries for AI-assisted work
Who Can Benefit
This course is designed for:
- Anyone interested in using Claude effectively for work
Prerequisites
Participants should enter this course with:
- Familiarity using generative AI
Organizational Objectives
This course assists organizations to:
- Reduce time spent on first-draft writing by standardizing prompt patterns
- Build baseline Claude literacy across knowledge-work teams
- Lower governance risk through trained recognition of hallucinations
- Create a shared vocabulary for AI-assisted work across functions
Software
All participants require a laptop or desktop computer with a modern web browser and broadband internet.
Course Details
Course Details
Module 1 - Using Claude Chat
By the end of this module, you will be able to apply the CLEAR framework to write prompts that produce reliable Claude output, and decide when to reach for web search, extended thinking, or Research over a plain prompt.
- The Chat Interface and conversation flow
- The CLEAR Framework: Concise, Logical, Explicit, Adaptive, Reflective
- Attaching documents and images for grounded prompts
- Web Access, Research, and Extended Thinking modes
- Persistent memory and model switching
- Hands-on Lab: Refine a weak workplace prompt into a CLEAR-structured prompt template that produces consistent output across multiple Claude models.
Module 2 - Organizing and Creating with Claude
By the end of this module, you will be able to configure Projects, Artifacts, and Styles to scope Claude’s behavior to a specific body of work and produce shareable output that matches your team’s tone.
- Organizing recurring work with Projects
- Project Instructions for scoping Claude’s behavior
- Artifacts: building apps, tools, visualizations, and content
- Publishing and sharing Artifacts
- Styles for personalizing tone and format
- Hands-on Lab: Build a Project for a recurring workplace task with Project Instructions, a reusable Style, and a published Artifact that demonstrates the scoped output.
Module 3 - Working Alongside AI
By the end of this module, you will be able to set trust boundaries with Claude, recognize hallucinations and prompt-injection patterns, and decide what to delegate to AI versus what to keep under direct human control.
- Setting trust boundaries with Claude
- Deciding what to delegate and what to keep
- Reviewing and verifying AI output
- Hallucinations, incorrect citations, and fabricated claims
- Prompt injection and input risks
- Hands-on Lab: Audit a sample Claude conversation for hallucinations, fabricated citations, and prompt-injection risks; document a trust-boundary policy for the workflow.
Schedule
FAQ
Does the course schedule include a Lunchbreak?
Classes typically include a 1-hour lunch break around midday. However, the exact break times and duration can vary depending on the specific class. Your instructor will provide detailed information at the start of the course.
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At Ascendient Learning, we offer training that is Instructor-Led, Online, Virtual, and Self-Paced.
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Yes, we provide training for groups, individuals and private on sites. View our group training page for more information.
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As a vendor-authorized training partner, we offer a curriculum that our partners have vetted. We use the same course materials and facilitate the same labs as our vendor-delivered training. These courses are considered the gold standard and, as such, are priced accordingly.
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Ascendient Learning instructors have an average of 27 years of practical IT experience and have also served as consultants for an average of 15 years. To stay current, instructors spend at least 25 percent of their time learning new, emerging technologies and courses.
Do you provide hands-on training and exercises in an actual lab environment?
Lab access is dependent on the vendor and the type of training you sign up for. However, many of our top vendors will provide lab access to students to test and practice. The course description will specify lab access.
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Reviews
had a good time with the course, however some topics were left out due to the compact amount of time for training.
Great training it covered the most importan topics if GitHub copilot with good explanation and good labs.
Instructor, Training material & span of the training is neatly planned.
very good and spcecific course and above all a very good instructor. In few days I have learned a lot.
This was effective way to provide a ton of information in a short time period.
