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Summary
A practical, highly rated university course on writing better prompts for ChatGPT and similar tools. It teaches reusable prompt patterns and examples you can apply straight away to everyday work tasks.
The step after AI Foundations: learners take a workflow they repeat, break it into steps, find where AI adds value and build a practical plan to use AI across that process, turning one-off prompts into repeatable workflows.
Objectives
Write clear prompts that get more useful answers from AI chat tools
Use named prompt patterns to handle common tasks
Give examples in a prompt to steer output (few-shot prompting)
Chain prompts together for more complex work
Map a recurring piece of work into clear steps
Identify which steps AI can help with and which need a person
Turn useful prompts into a repeatable workflow
Build a practical plan for using AI across a real process
Things to know
Only the first module is free since Coursera ended audit in August 2025
Focuses on ChatGPT, though patterns carry over to other tools
Coursera's 20 hours is an estimate (2 weeks at 10 hours)
Uses ChatGPT specifically.
Course is about 80 minutes; the full learning path with assessment is listed at 1h 50m.
Badge requires passing an assessment at 80% or higher.
Lesson-level module titles are only visible after enrolling; the public page lists the course plus its assessment.
OpenAI says badges and certificates of completion are not certifications and do not guarantee eligibility for a future OpenAI Certification.
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