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Google Prompting Essentials

Course Overview:

  • Practice using 5 steps to write effective prompts

  • Apply prompting techniques to help you with everyday work tasks

  • Use prompting to speed up data analysis and build presentations

  • Design prompts to create AI agents to role-play conversations and get expert feedback

There are 4 modules in this course

This course focuses on effectively using prompts to maximize the capabilities of generative AI tools. It is designed for beginners and emphasizes practical applications for designing prompts for drafting communications, analyzing data, and automating workflows. Learning responsible AI practices, including error and bias evaluation.

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Once completed you will receive a Google certificate of course completion and be ready to work with professionals using AI tools for productivity and problem-solving.

 

The course is less than 10 hours

Start writing prompts like a pro - Module 1 - Estimated time 2 hours

Need a dependable formula for writing prompts? We’ll share a 5-step prompting framework that you can use across tools and models. And if your prompt doesn’t produce what you need on the first try, don't worry – that's part of the process! You’ll learn how to evaluate and iterate until you get the results you’re looking for.

​​13 videos  •  Total time 37 minutes

  • Welcome to Google Prompting Essentials​

  • Discover how AI can help at work

  • AI IRL: Unlock your relationship with AI through prompting

  • Use the 5-step prompt framework

  • Put the prompt framework into action

  • AI IRL: Improve your prompts by adding context & persona

  • Practice 4 iteration methods

 
5 readings  •  Total time 29 minutes

  • Course Overview

  • Get the most out of AI with the prompt framework

  • Generate better outputs through iteration

 
4 assignments  •  Total time 108 minutes

  • Activity: Plan a vacation with gen AI

  • Activity: Brainstorm with gen AI

  • AI IRL: Iterate on your prompts to succeed

  • Create images with gen AI

  • AI IRL: Refine your creative vision

  • Use images, documents, and more in prompts

  • Use gen AI responsibly

  • AI IRL: Discover strategies to mitigate hallucinations

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  • Understand multimodel prompting

  • Tips for responsible prompting​​​​

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  • Activity: Create an image with gen AI

  • Module 1 challenge​​​​

Design prompts for everyday work tasks - Module 2 - Estimated time 1 hour

Don’t know when to use AI? We’ll guide you through examples that can help you save time at work. You’ll design prompts that help you draft emails and adapt them to different audiences, supercharge your brainstorming, quickly build tables and trackers, turn meeting notes into action items, and summarize lengthy documents.

​​9 videos  •  Total time 23 minutes

  • Save time at work by using AI

  • AI IRL: Tackle your to-do list with the help of AI

  • Write emails with gen AI

  • Brainstorm ideas the buzz

  • Build tables & trackers effortlessly

 
3 readings  •  Total time 18 minutes

  • Prompt with personality: Match gen AI to your writing style

  • Supercharge your work with Gemini for Google Workspace

 
3 assignments  •  Total time 78 minutes

  • Activity: Create a timeline with gen AI

  • Activity: Summarize & draft content with gen AI

  • Capture meeting notes instantly

  • Summarize lengthy documents

  • AI IRL: Reclaim your time with the help of AI

  • Practice advanced summarization techniques

  • Summarization best practices

  • Module 2 challenge

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  • Activity: Use AI to create a work email

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Speed up data analysis and presentation building - Module 3 - Estimated time 1 hour

Need to crunch data or pull together a presentation? You’ll design prompts that help you extract insights, understand spreadsheet formulas, and build graphs to visualize data. Once you’re ready to present your findings, you can use AI tools to help with speaker notes and practice before your big day.

8 videos  •  Total time 23 minutes

  • Find & present insights with AI

  • Use AI to uncover hidden patterns in data

  • AI IRL: Accelerate analytical tasks with AI by your side

  • Decipher spreadsheets

 
2 readings  •  Total time 18 minutes

  • Strategies for data analysis

  • Fine-tune gen AI outputs by adjusting tool setting

 
2 assignments  •  Total time 48 minutes​

  • Activity: Extract data insights with gen AI

  • Module 3 challenge

  • Bring data to life with visualizations

  • Get a head start on presentation speaker notes

  • Receive instant feedback on a presentation

  • AI IRL: Explore the capabilities & limitations of AI

Use AI as a creative or expert partner - Module 4 - Estimated time 2 hours

Wish you had a partner to help think through different possibilities? You'll use advanced prompting techniques, like prompt chaining and multimodal prompting, to turn abstract ideas into step-by-step solutions. Even better, you’ll create a personalized AI agent to role-play conversations and provide expert feedback that can help you prepare for any scenario.

10 videos  •  Total time 26 minutes

  • Use AI to untangle complex tasks

  • Discover prompt chaining

  • Explore Chain-of-thought & Tree-of-thought prompting

  • AI IRL: Enlist AI as your thought partner

  • Create an AI agent for simulations

 
5 readings  •  Total time 40 minutes

  • Simplify multi-stip projects with prompts chaining

  • Using meta-prompting to improve & generate new prompts

  • Ideas for AI agents

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3 assignments  •  Total time 84 minutes

  • Activity: Create an AI agent

  • Module 4 challenge

 

1 plugin  •  Total time 85 minutes

  • AI IRL: Team up with AI on your next project

  • Build a prompt library

  • AI IRL: Build AI with your community

  • Congratulations on completing the course!

  • Google Prompting Essentials: Key takeaways

  • Access resources exclusively for Google Prompting graduates

  • End of course challenge

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