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ChatGPT Essentials: A Practical Introduction in Five Sessions

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KSRA · Beginner level · English · Free enrolment

Learn to use ChatGPT with confidence and judgement

This practical course is for anyone who wants help with everyday writing, learning and organising information. No programming experience is required. You will practise giving clear instructions, improving answers, checking claims and producing a useful final project.

What you will learn

  • Start and refine a conversation.
  • Write specific prompts with useful context.
  • Draft, translate and summarise without losing important facts.
  • Work carefully with documents and images when those tools are available.
  • Check sources and build a small project you can review and use.

Your five sessions

  1. Meet ChatGPT and start your first conversation.
  2. Write better prompts and improve the answer.
  3. Write, translate, summarise and plan.
  4. Use files, images and sources responsibly.
  5. Build and evaluate your first AI-assisted project.

How to study

Allow approximately 45–60 minutes per session, including hands-on practice. Read the lesson, try each example, complete the task and check your answers. Keep a learning log with your prompt, output, correction and final result. Example outputs are illustrative: your answers may differ.

What you need

An internet connection and access to ChatGPT. Core exercises use plain text. Optional upload or search tools may vary by account, plan and interface; text alternatives are included. Course enrolment is free; it does not include a paid ChatGPT subscription.

Interactive practice and certificate

Each session now includes three practice activities with revealable feedback and model answers. Write open responses in your learning log; these practice activities are not saved or automatically graded. Your graded results are recorded in the separate lesson quizzes.

A KSRA certificate of completion is available after completing the required course steps. It uses the first and last names in your profile and your course completion date. Check your profile name before downloading it.

Assessment

Each lesson includes a five-question self-check with explanations. The final project asks you to prepare an invitation, timetable and checklist from a fixed brief, then document your corrections.

Course format: five English text lessons, five short narrated slide videos, step-by-step practice, self-checks and five graded quizzes. Videos use an AI-generated narrator. Work through each lesson and aim for 80% in each quiz.