Claude AI Skills
€ 600
What you'll learn
This course shows you how to use Claude confidently, safely and effectively across your own everyday work, from connecting it to your email, calendar and files to handing whole pieces of work to Cowork.
You move from 'I've tried it a bit' to confident, capable Claude use, with practical patterns you repeat across your working week.
What can you do with Claude AI?
- Stop wrestling with prompts and start getting output you can actually send, file or present
- Connect Claude to your email, calendar and files with Connectors so it works with what you already use
- Build Projects and reusable Skills that work from your own files, in your own voice
- Hand whole pieces of work to Cowork and get back finished reports rather than fragments to assemble
- Know where to trust the output and where your professional judgement is non-negotiable
Who it's for
Professionals in any sector who want Claude taking the manual work out of their own week: writing, research, analysis and admin. No technical AI background needed.
Course structure
Hands-on throughout, with live demos and guided exercises built around the work you do every week. A week between each session gives you time to try what you built on your own work and bring the questions back.
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Session 1 · Wednesday 20 Jan, 12pm to 1pm
Setup, safety and Connectors
You confirm your Claude plan, install the desktop app and check access to Chat and Cowork, so everything runs from the first minute of Session 2. You work through what can and cannot safely go into Claude, including the privacy settings that matter for your work. You set up Connectors to your email, calendar and files, decide which Connectors are safe to switch on, and run your first prompts across them.
Session 2 · Wednesday 27 Jan, 12pm to 2pm
Structured prompting and Projects
You build structured prompts that turn vague asks into consistent, usable output, whether that is a report, a tricky email or a summary of a long document. You assemble Projects from your own reference documents, templates and past work so Claude works from your sources instead of the open web. You leave with a Project set up for your own work, ready to use that week.
Session 3 · Wednesday 3 Feb, 12pm to 2pm
Skills and Cowork
You create reusable Skills that capture your voice and the tasks you repeat every week, such as status updates, meeting follow-ups and document checks. You hand multi-step work to Cowork, so research, analysis and reporting across your files come back as finished pieces rather than fragments you stitch together by hand. You set the checkpoints where your review comes in before anything goes out.
Session 4 · Wednesday 10 Feb, 12pm to 1pm
Workshop
No new teaching. Bring one real task from your own workload, such as a report that has stalled or a process you repeat every Monday, and build it out with Claude. You get live support from your Course Leader, learn from peers across different sectors and roles, and leave with a working output you can use the next day.
"At the start of the first session, I was told I'd build a working dashboard before the two hours were up. I have zero coding skills. Mention the word "code" to me and I glaze over immediately. Not only did I build that dashboard within the session, two days later I sat down on my own and replicated the entire exercise from scratch - no instructor, no hand-holding. That's the measure of how these courses are designed. The content is genuinely practical, the delivery is clear and encouraging, and the results speak for themselves. Worth every penny — and I'll be back for more."
About the instructor
Rowena Hennigan
Rowena is a Course Leader at the AI Institute and a lecturer at TU Dublin, where she teaches future of work skills. At the AI Institute she leads this Claude course, taking professionals from their first prompts to delegating real work to Cowork. She brings close to two decades of helping teams adopt new ways of working, with a clear focus on what holds up in a real working week.
Frequently asked questions
None at all. Our courses are specifically designed for working professionals, executives, and design teams who want practical AI skills, not a computer science lecture.
- If you are taking a Copilot course, basic familiarity with standard Microsoft 365 apps (Word, Excel, Outlook) is all you need.
- For Claude Code, Claude handles the actual coding while you direct it using plain English.
- For industry-specific paths from the Built Environment, we focus entirely on practical workflows, layout options, and project management—never complex programming.
Yes, absolutely. Security and confidentiality are our highest priorities, especially for our AEC and Finance cohorts:
- Data Privacy: Microsoft Copilot and Claude enterprise plans respect your existing corporate IT permissions. The AI only sees data you are already authorized to access, and your inputs are never used to train public models.
- Course Work: Live workshop sessions use anonymized dummy data so you can focus entirely on mastering techniques in a safe environment. You will then be given clear frameworks to confidently apply those exact same prompts to your live, proprietary project files between sessions.
The market is flooded with generic "how to write prompts" videos. Our edge is entirely different:
- Live, Expert Facilitation: You are learning in real-time alongside an executive-level peer group, guided by practitioners from companies actively deploying AI in the real world.
- Always Up-to-Date: The second an AI model drops a new feature, we rebuild our exercises. You are getting a cutting-edge playground, not stale theory.
- Workflow Integration: We don't just teach tools in a vacuum; we show you exactly how they talk to your existing ecosystem - whether that’s integrating Claude with Microsoft 365 or feeding AI-generated concepts downstream into Revit, Rhino, and Photoshop.
We assume zero knowledge and take everyone from 0 to 60. We start at the basics, customising your tool and writing a first prompt that actually returns something useful, then build from there.
- People who arrive more advanced consistently tell us they still pick something up in every session, so we believe we are hitting the right notes.
- You do need a basic level of digital competence: logging in, copying and pasting, moving between windows. We teach the AI, not the computer.
Yes, completely. Governance and ethics are built into every course we deliver rather than bolted on as a closing session.
- What is safe to put into a paid Copilot tenancy and what is not, in the terms your own IT policy uses.
- The safeguards worth having in place before people start using it on live client work.
- Where the output can be trusted, and where sign-off stays with a named human.
Online, live, and led by an instructor. These are not pre-recorded videos. Questions get asked and answered as we go, and our instructors are good at making sure everyone takes part.
- Two screens are worth having: one to watch us on, one to practise on.
- Recordings are provided, usually within 45 minutes of the session ending.
- You keep the session recordings, the slide decks and the workbooks for 60 days after the course finishes.
Several sessions, and deliberately so. We want you to go away and use what you learned between them.
- Run a prompt on a task you were going to do anyway. Try a skill on real work.
- You come back having felt what it is like, which is when the questions get good and the next session lands properly.
- A single long day looks efficient on a calendar and teaches considerably less.
