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Beginner
AI Made Simple
Understand ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Copilot, and today’s major AI tools without technical jargon.
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Beginner
Class 02
Prompting for Real Life
Learn how to communicate effectively with AI — context, roles, examples, refinement, and reusable templates.
- Level
- Beginner
- Duration
- 4 hours
- Lessons
- 10 lessons
- Format
- Self-paced + prompt workshop
- Tracks
- Personal, Families, Work, Business, Nonprofit
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Course overview
Most disappointing AI results are communication problems, not capability problems. This class teaches you a repeatable way to ask, so you get useful output the first time instead of the fifth. You leave with a personal prompt library built around the things you actually do each week.
Who this is for
- Anyone whose AI results feel generic or shallow
- People who rewrite prompts over and over
- Teams that want a shared way of working with AI
- Graduates of AI Made Simple
What you’ll learn
- The four elements that make almost any prompt better
- How to give context without writing an essay
- Using roles and examples to raise quality
- Refining and following up instead of restarting
- Building reusable templates for recurring tasks
- Getting structured output you can actually use
Curriculum
6 modules · 10 lessons- The three most common mistakes
- Vague in, vague out: a side-by-side demonstration
- Context: what the AI needs to know
- Task: what you actually want
- Format: how you want it back
- Constraints: what to avoid or include
- Assigning a useful perspective
- Showing one good example instead of describing ten rules
- When roles help and when they get in the way
- The five follow-ups that improve almost any answer
- Asking AI to critique its own output
- Steering long conversations without losing the thread
- Tables, checklists, and outlines on demand
- Getting output that drops straight into a document or email
- Identifying your weekly repeatable tasks
- Turning a good prompt into a reusable template
- Where to store and organize your library
Hands-on exercises
Rewrite three weak prompts using the four elements
Build five reusable templates for your own recurring tasks
Run a refinement round on your worst result and document the improvement
Expected outcomes
- A personal library of at least ten reusable prompts
- A repeatable method you can teach to someone else
- Noticeably better first-attempt results
Tools used
ChatGPT Claude A notes app or document of your choice
Skills you build
Prompt designContext settingIterative refinementTemplate building
Instructor
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LifeQuest AI Practice Faculty
Instructor details for this class are being finalized.
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