Track · OpenAI Academy

OpenAI: AI Foundations path

OpenAI Academy's own three-course progression, about four hours in all, each with a completion certificate. AI Foundations builds the habits (clear instructions, context, review, responsible use) on a task you already do; Applied AI Foundations turns those habits into a repeatable workflow; Agents and Workflows then hands that workflow to an agent and teaches you to direct, bound and review its work. Take them in this order: each one assumes the last.

3 courses · ≈ 4h total · free to take

Before you start, Stanford context: Stanford's covered OpenAI service is ChatGPT Edu. The Standard tier is free for active faculty, students, postdocs and staff, approved for high-risk data and PHI, and includes ChatGPT Work and Codex. Request your account on ChatGPT Edu at Stanford and check eligibility in the ChatGPT Edu FAQs before you start: the courses expect a ChatGPT account and a real work task to practise on.

The sequence

AI Foundations beginner1h 10mOpenAI Academy You pick a task you actually do each week and work it through ChatGPT while learning how large language models behave: giving clear instructions, supplying context, reviewing what … Open Applied AI Foundations intermediate1h 20mOpenAI Academy Take a workflow you repeat, break it into steps, decide where AI helps at each step and build a practical plan for running it with ChatGPT: which inputs, models and tools, where to… Open Agents and Workflows intermediate1h 30mOpenAI Academy Learn to direct agent-assisted work: give an agent context, define the output you want, set boundaries, review the result and improve the workflow over time, using a sample custome… Open

This track follows OpenAI Academy's own progression; courses open on the vendor's site. Content and availability are controlled by the vendor.