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Official courses from the teams behind Stanford's supported AI tools, reviewed, annotated, and organized so you can choose the right one without wading through a catalog.

Featured track · 3 courses

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.
Directory · Beginner

OpenAI Academy

OpenAI's free learning hub: three self-paced foundations courses with completion certificates (AI Foundations, Applied AI Foundations, Agents and Workflows), on-demand webinar recordings for ChatGPT and Codex, and live events. Sign-up is free and open to anyone.

Free
OpenAI Course · Beginner

AI Foundations

Start here if you've never used ChatGPT or GPT-based tools seriously, this is OpenAI's own on-ramp, and it pairs well with Stanford's ChatGPT Edu access.

1h 10m
OpenAI Course · Intermediate

Applied AI Foundations

For once you're past basics and want to apply AI to recurring work tasks, the natural second step after AI Foundations.

1h 20m
OpenAI Course · Intermediate

Agents and Workflows

Covers directing multi-step AI agents, most relevant once you're comfortable with prompting and want to automate a real workflow.

1h 30m
OpenAI
Featured track · 7 courses

Anthropic: Claude essentials

Claude Academy's sequence from first conversation to building on the platform, all free with badges. Claude 101 gets you productive in the app; AI Fluency and AI Capabilities and Limitations give you the framework and the mental model to judge what comes back; Introduction to Claude Cowork moves you from chatting to delegating whole tasks; Claude Code 101 does the same for software; Claude Platform 101 and Introduction to MCP are for developers who want to build with the API and connect Claude to their own tools. Stop after the first four if you do not write code.
Directory · Beginner

Claude Academy

Anthropic's free education site: product courses for Claude, Claude Cowork, Claude Code and the Claude Platform, the AI Fluency series built with university faculty, and developer courses on the API, MCP and agents. Every course is free and self-paced, and most end with a quiz and a completion badge.

Free
Claude Course · Beginner

Claude 101

The fastest way to get oriented on Claude specifically, useful even if you already use ChatGPT, since Claude for Education is Stanford's other major supported assistant.

2h 37m
Claude Course · Beginner

AI Fluency: Framework & Foundations

A vendor-neutral way of thinking about working with any AI assistant, not just Claude, good for building durable judgment rather than tool-specific tricks.

3h 53m
Claude Course · Beginner

Introduction to Claude Cowork

Cowork is part of Stanford's Claude for Education rollout, this is the vendor's own walkthrough of the workflow the UIT knowledge-base guides reference.

2h 44m
Claude Course · Intermediate

Claude Code 101

Pairs with Stanford's Claude Code knowledge-base guides, the how-to KBs in this portal reference exactly these workflows.

1h 21m
Claude Course · Beginner

AI Fluency for Students

Written for students specifically, a good first recommendation alongside Stanford's responsible-AI guidance.

2h 55m
Claude Course · Beginner

AI Fluency for Educators

For teaching staff introducing AI into their courses, complements Stanford's teaching guidance on AI use.

1h 18m
Claude Course · Intermediate

Claude Platform 101

Anthropic's own developer course for building on Claude with the Anthropic SDK. Note: Stanford's AI API Gateway uses an OpenAI-compatible endpoint, so the concepts transfer but the code samples will not run against the gateway as-is.

1h 23m
Claude Course · Intermediate

Introduction to Model Context Protocol

MCP is how Claude (and increasingly other assistants) connects to tools and data. Relevant if you're building beyond simple chat; independent of the Stanford AI API Gateway.

1h 4m
Claude Course · Beginner

AI Capabilities and Limitations

Builds a working mental model of what language models can and cannot do: next-token prediction and where fabrication concentrates, the knowledge cutoff, the context window as a hard limit, and why instruction-following is sometimes loose. You finish able to look at a real AI failure, name which property caused it and choose a targeted fix. Thirteen lessons, about 3.5 hours, quiz and completion badge. Free.

3h 32m
Claude Course · Advanced

Claude Code in Action

For people already using Claude Code who want longer, less supervised runs: scope work with plan mode, write a CLAUDE.md Claude actually follows, pick permission modes, enforce non-negotiable rules with hooks, schedule routines and headless runs, wire Claude into pull requests, and verify unsupervised work in proportion to how little you watched it. Nine lessons, about 1 hour, quiz and badge. Free.

58 min
Claude Course · Intermediate

Introduction to agent skills

Six lessons on skills in Claude Code, the reusable markdown instructions Claude applies automatically when a request matches: create a SKILL.md, restrict tool access, organise larger skills with reference files and scripts, decide between skills, CLAUDE.md, subagents, hooks and MCP servers, share skills through repositories and plugins, and troubleshoot with the validator. About 1 hour. Free.

58 min
Claude Course · Advanced

Model Context Protocol: Advanced Topics

Past the MCP basics: sampling (servers requesting model calls through the client), notifications and progress reporting, roots for scoped file access, the stdio and Server-Sent Events transports, the initialisation handshake, and stateless HTTP for horizontal scaling. Eleven lessons, about 1.5 hours, quiz and badge. Free; for engineers building production MCP servers.

1h 21m
Claude Course · Advanced

Building with the Claude API

Anthropic's full developer course: authentication and multi-turn conversations, system prompts and structured output, prompt evaluation with generated test sets, prompt engineering with XML tags and examples, tool use, retrieval-augmented generation with embeddings and BM25, extended thinking, images, PDFs and citations, prompt caching, MCP servers and clients, and agent architectures with parallelisation, chaining and routing. Sixty-seven lessons, about 9 hours, eight quizzes and a completion badge. Free; needs Python and an API key.

9h 2m
Claude
Featured track · 4 courses

Google: Gemini essentials

Google's path from two free 45-to-60-minute micro-courses (what generative AI and large language models are) to the paid, hands-on programs: AI Essentials, five modules under five hours on prompting, productivity and responsible use, then the eight-course AI Professional Certificate that works through research, writing, content, data analysis and app building with Gemini. The free micro-courses are enough to decide whether the certificate is worth your time.
Course · Beginner

Grow with Google: AI training

Google's directory of AI training for working professionals: the AI Professional Certificate, AI Essentials and shorter courses, plus free AI tools. The flagship programs run on Coursera or Google Skills as paid subscriptions; the Google Skills micro-courses are free.

Free
Google Course · Beginner

Google AI Essentials

A practical, half-day course on using AI tools for everyday work, vendor-neutral in spirit despite being Google-branded.

5h
Google Course · Beginner

Google AI Professional Certificate

A deeper, multi-course credential, worth it if you want a portfolio-worthy certificate, not just a quick orientation.

Free
Google Course · Beginner

Introduction to Generative AI

Google's own short intro, a good complement if your work touches Gemini Enterprise, which Stanford also supports.

45 min
Google Course · Beginner

Introduction to Large Language Models

The companion micro-course to Introduction to Generative AI: what large language models are, the kinds of tasks they suit, and how prompt tuning improves their output, with a look at Google's tools for building on them. About 1 hour, introductory level, badge on completion. Free on Google Skills.

1h
Google
Featured track · 5 courses

Microsoft: Copilot essentials

Microsoft Learn's Copilot Chat (Basic) path, four free modules totalling about two hours, plus one for instructors. It starts with what generative AI is and how Copilot protects your data, then where to find Copilot Chat and how work and web grounding differ, then the four-part prompt formula (context, goal, source, expectations), then real tasks: summarising, drafting, analysing files, Copilot Pages and agents. Finish with the educators' module if you teach. Copilot Chat (Basic) is exactly the version Stanford provides, so everything here matches what you will see.
Course · Beginner

Microsoft Learn: Copilot

Microsoft's hub for Copilot training on Microsoft Learn: free self-paced modules and learning paths for business users, educators and developers, from Copilot Chat basics to prompting, agents and Microsoft 365 Copilot. Modules are free; sign in with any Microsoft account to record completions.

Free
Microsoft Course · Beginner

What is generative AI?

A short Microsoft Learn module on how generative AI produces content, the responsible-AI principles of fairness, transparency and accountability, how Copilot grounds answers and protects your data, the common risks to check before you share AI output, and how Copilot Chat, Microsoft Copilot and Copilot Cowork differ. Six units, about 31 minutes. Free.

31 min
Microsoft Course · Beginner

Get started with Microsoft Copilot Chat (Basic)

Introduces Copilot Chat (Basic), the free version Stanford provides: where to find it, how to move around the interface, the difference between work and web grounding, and how Enterprise Data Protection keeps your prompts out of model training. Seven units with a module assessment, about 24 minutes. Free.

24 min
Microsoft Course · Beginner

Write effective prompts to achieve optimal results

The four elements of a good Copilot prompt (context, goal, source, expectations), best practices and common mistakes, custom instructions and Copilot Memory for personalisation, and Prompt Lab for finding, saving and sharing prompts. Seven units, about 29 minutes, module assessment. Free.

29 min
Microsoft Course · Beginner

Work smarter with Microsoft Copilot Chat (Basic)

Puts Copilot Chat (Basic) to work: brainstorming, summarising, drafting, analysing uploaded files, visualising data and generating code, collaborating in Copilot Pages, and how agents in Copilot Chat automate simple workflows, with a hands-on exercise planning a client summit. Seven units, about 36 minutes, module assessment. Free.

36 min
Microsoft Course · Beginner

Enhance teaching and learning with Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat

For instructors: the basic uses of Copilot Chat in teaching, designing prompts that support learning, creating course materials, and judging the quality and credibility of what Copilot returns, mapped to the ISTE and UNESCO educator standards. Nine units, about 70 minutes. Free.

1h 10m
Microsoft
Featured track · 6 courses

LinkedIn Learning: AI literacy

Six vendor-neutral LinkedIn Learning courses, about seven and a half hours, that build AI literacy in the order the ideas depend on each other: what AI is and how predictive differs from generative (Introduction to Artificial Intelligence, What Is Generative AI?), then how to talk to it (Introduction to Prompt Engineering, hands-on in Copilot, ChatGPT, Gemini and Claude), then how the models work underneath (Introduction to Large Language Models), and finally the judgement to use them well (Ethics in the Age of Generative AI, Responsible AI). Each course ends with a certificate of completion.
Course · Beginner

Introduction to Artificial Intelligence

A plain-language AI primer for non-technical staff, good starting point before anything Stanford-specific.

2h 26m
LinkedIn Course · Beginner

Introduction to Prompt Engineering for Generative AI

Covers ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Copilot side by side, useful precisely because it's not locked to one vendor.

1h 3m
LinkedIn Course · Beginner

Ethics in the Age of Generative AI

Short and non-technical, a reasonable pairing with Stanford's own Responsible AI guidance for anyone in a policy-adjacent role.

45 min
LinkedIn Course · Intermediate

Generative AI for Business Leaders (2025)

Strategic, not technical, for managers deciding how AI fits their team's work, not how to prompt it.

1h 17m
LinkedIn Course · Intermediate

Introduction to Large Language Models

The best plain-English explanation of how tools like Claude and ChatGPT actually work under the hood, if you want the "why" and not just the "how".

1h 17m
LinkedIn Course · Beginner

Responsible AI: Principles and Practical Applications

UC Berkeley faculty, more academic in tone than Stanford's own guidance but a useful second perspective for instructors.

1h 17m
LinkedIn Learning path · Beginner

Building AI Literacy (learning path)

The most comprehensive single resource on this list (7h 46m), treat it as a multi-week reference, not a one-sitting course.

9h
LinkedIn Course · Beginner

What Is Generative AI?

Pinar Seyhan Demirdag's primer on generative AI: its history, the popular models, how it works and the ethical implications, framed for any profession rather than for engineers. 1h 3m, beginner, released March 2023, certificate of completion. Included with Stanford's LinkedIn Learning access.

1h 3m
LinkedIn Learning path · Beginner

Your Top AI Questions Answered: AI Literacy for Everyone

Dr. Marily Nika answers the questions people actually ask about AI: the history from concept to today, traditional versus generative AI, how to construct prompts that get useful answers, and the key technologies such as transformers. 49 minutes, general level, released August 2025. Included with Stanford's LinkedIn Learning access.

49 min
LinkedIn Course · Beginner

How to Boost Your Productivity with AI Tools

Dave Birss demonstrates a framework for folding generative AI tools such as ChatGPT into everyday tasks, with a set of reusable prompts that streamline routine work and improve the result. 2h 14m, general level, released September 2025. Included with Stanford's LinkedIn Learning access.

2h 14m
LinkedIn

Vendor courses go deeper. Stanford guidance still comes first.

Before applying a vendor technique at work, confirm that the tool, data type, and workflow follow Stanford's current AI guidance. The Stanford notes on each course help connect the two.