GenAI Foundations

Build stronger GenAI skills with practical lessons, worked examples and tools you can apply across your everyday work.

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1. Amantha & Neo's Welcome
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1. Which GenAI tool should I use?
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2. Want a handy summary of the GenAI Models? Grab your quick guide here!
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3. Interface Essentials & Prompting Basics
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4. Which GenAI model to use?
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5. Is GenAI Right for This Task? A Practical Guide
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6. GenAI and PDF, Word, PowerPoint and Excel document creation
1. Claude Overview
2. Claude Settings
3. Claude and Connectors
1. GenAI and Bias
2. Which random YouTube Video Did You Guess?
3. Understanding Data Requirements for AI in Australia
4. Managing the Risks of AI: A Checklist
5. Get the Essentials: Data, Bias & Privacy
6. Do you need to attribute when you use GenAI?
7. AI's Little White Lies: How to Catch Hallucinations
8. Quiz: GenAI and Content Creation
1. Intro to Advanced Prompting
2. Renaming Chat Threads for better reusability
3. Creating your own Prompt Library
4. Exercise: Build Your Prompt Library
5. Build a foundation first: Gunslinging vs Architecting
6. Example: Gunslinging vs Architecting a 100 day plan
7. Exercise: Gunslinging vs Architecting
8. The Power User's Guide to Prompt Variables
9. Exercise: Add in Variables to a Template Prompt
10. Using a Briefing Document with GenAI
11. Bonus: Briefing Document Interviewer
12. Example: Improving a prompt
1. Supercharge Your Search and Research with GenAI
2. Perplexity Demo: Intelligent Search and Research
3. ChatGPT's Web Search: A Quick Overview
4. Copilot's Web and Document Search: A Quick Overview
5. Copilot's Web and Document Search: Researcher
6. Battle of the Search Engines - Google vs GenAI
7. Effective Research with GenAI: Best Practices
8. Consensus Demo: Research Made Easy
9. Unlock Your Knowledge: A NotebookLM Demo
10. Consensus or NotebookLM - Which Tool Would You Use?
11. M365 Copilot Notebook: Get answers (and a podcast!) from your company docs
12. Search better: Deep Research
13. Going deeper into Perplexity: Deep Research
14. Going deeper into Perplexity: Spaces
1. Unlock Your GenAI Potential: The Power of Habit
2. GenAI or Gen-Why-Do-I-Keep-Forgetting? A Habit-Building Quiz
3. Download: Habit Forming Hacks
1. Congratuations on finishing the core tasks
1. GenAI for Writing: Introduction
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2. GenAI for Writing: Your Voice
3. GenAI for Writing: Style
4. GenAl for Writing: Creating your Master Prompt (and how to use it)
5. GenAI for Writing: Tone
6. Test Your Tone-Spotting Skills
7. GenAI for Writing: Structure
8. Practice: Analyse the Structure of Your Writing
9. Additional Tips to make GenAI sound more 'human'
10. Download: Your Guide to Make AI Sound Like You
11. Example: Your writing expert Agent/GPT
1. Using GenAI as your Concept Buddy
2. Ideation: What happens if you have no ideas
3. Exercise: Work with AI to generate some ideas for your business
4. Recent and Relevant: Fill in GenAI knowledge gaps about your needs and the world
5. Devil's Advocate: Using GenAI to challenge your thinking and improve your work
6. From Blank Page to Breakthroughs: The Quiz
7. Exercise: Refine Your Ideas with GenAI's Critical Eye
8. Lessons Learned and Next Steps
1. GenAI for meetings - introduction
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2. Pre: Transform your meeting prep with GenAI
3. Make GenAI Your Pre-Meeting Sidekick
4. During: Using GenAI-assisted Meeting tools
5. Mastering GenAI Powered Meetings: Are Your Ready?
6. Post: How GenAI can help you send action items and more
7. Exercise: Take Control of Your Post-Meeting Process
1. GenAI for Data Analysis: Quantitative (numeric) data insights
2. The 5 prompts to learn about any spreadsheet
3. GenAI for Data Analysis: Qualitative Data (word analysis)
4. Secure Data Analysis with GenAI
5. Excel formula help with GenAI
6. Puppeteer your Spreadsheet: M365 Copilot or Claude with Excel
1. Revolutionise Work with Your AI Expert
2. ChatGPT: Custom GPTs
3. ChatGPT: Projects
4. ChatGPT - When to use a Custom GPT vs a Project
5. Claude: Projects
6. Gemini: Gems
7. Copilot: Agents
1. Improving your prompts - a walkthrough
1. GenAI in Action: Business Solutions
2. Data Safety and Security with GenAI
3. GenAI for large documents and financial documents
4. Taming the Document Beast: A GenAI Experiment
5. GenAI for reviewing contracts
6. Quiz: GenAI and Contract Review: Are You Legally Savvy or AI-Clueless?
7. Copilot as a PowerPoint Productivity Partner
8. Presentation Creation (using ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini)
9. Thought Piece: The New Era of Valuable Work
1. AI and Image Creation
2. AI and Video Creation
1. GenAI Productivity Power-Up: Course Recap
2. Congratulations - you've finished the course!
3. We'd love to hear from you
4. Congratulations on finishing the course

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GenAI Foundations

Course curriculum

Welcome!

Introduction to Generative AI

GenAI Applications

Tooling Intro

Getting started with Prompting

Prompting Essentials

Data, bias and privacy

Advanced Prompting Tips

GenAI, Search and Research

Building GenAI into your workday

Finished the Core Modules

GenAI for Writing

GenAI as your creativity assistant

GenAI for Meetings

GenAI for Data Analysis

Your own AI Experts (GPTs / Gems / Agents / Projects)

Improving Prompts

Business Examples using GenAI

AI for Images and Video

Wrapping it all up

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Discover your potential, starting today