The complete curriculum for Claude — Projects, Artifacts, computer use, Claude Code, and the conversation patterns that get the best output from the most thoughtful AI on the market.
What Claude can do beyond chat: Cowork, Claude Code, Computer Use, MCP. Real examples of each agent and what becomes possible.
Start here — your first hour, the honest comparison, and the free lessons that show you what Claude is for.
A guided first hour with Claude in 2026: apps and surfaces, the settings worth touching, five starter conversations, and an honest read on what Claude is best at.
The honest Claude vs ChatGPT comparison: where Claude's long-context reading and writing judgment win, where ChatGPT's ecosystem wins, and how people actually use both.
Set up Microsoft 365 integration with Claude. Then 5 use cases: triage, drafting replies, finding important threads, weekly summaries, email-to-task automation.
Launched June 9, switched off three days later by a US export-control order — then reinstated July 1 with a new safety classifier. The full timeline, what changed on the way back, and where Fable 5 fits the lineup now.
Anthropic's June 2026 Mythos-class release in plain English: the capability jump, why there are two names (Fable vs Mythos), the safeguards, and its June suspension and July 2026 reinstatement.
On June 30, 2026 Anthropic made Sonnet 5 the default for Free and Pro users — near-Opus performance at a fraction of the cost, with a 1M-token window. What changed, what it costs, and when to still reach for Opus 4.8 or Fable 5.
Free, Pro, Max — plus the API tiers (Haiku, Sonnet, Opus). The model-choice lever that quietly controls your bill.
Claude as your everyday partner — writing, research, files, skills, and the continuity that compounds.
The Claude writing workflows that professionals rely on: zero-drafts from messy notes, voice matching, structural editing, the tough-editor pass, and where the human line sits.
Claude research workflows: web search with citations, multi-source synthesis, the verification habits, and turning research into decision-ready briefs instead of link piles.
Working with files in Claude: multi-document reading, contract and report analysis, spreadsheet questions, cross-document contradiction hunting, and the verification habits.
Claude Skills turn repeatable workflows into installable capabilities: using built-in skills for documents and files, installing shared skills, and creating your own for the work you repeat.
Making Claude yours: memory across conversations, response styles, per-project instructions, and the maintenance habits that keep personalization current instead of stale.
Project setup, system instructions, custom knowledge base, conversation memory. Build a research assistant that knows your industry, your style, and your priorities.
When to invoke Artifacts, when to skip them, and the iterative-refinement workflow that turns Claude into a coding/writing partner instead of just an answer machine.
Loading entire documents, multi-document comparison, research synthesis. The use cases where Claude's context window genuinely changes what's possible.
How to write custom instructions that genuinely change output. The 4 sections every good instruction set needs, and the anti-patterns that make Claude worse.
Cowork turns Claude into a real working environment — desktop, and now the cloud (web + mobile rolling out July 2026). Claude reads your files, runs scripts, drafts documents, automates the boring stuff.
Launched July 9 in beta: a Settings dashboard showing what you use Claude for, when, and how well you collaborate — plus quiet hours, break nudges, and the privacy fine print worth reading.
Launched July 14: verified US K-12 educators get a full year of premium Claude free — teaching skills, curricula aligned to standards in all 50 states, classroom tool connectors, and FERPA-shaped data terms. Who qualifies and the fine print.
Anthropic replaced its Slack app with a persistent @Claude that lives in a channel, remembers context, and can be handed work by anyone on the team. What it does, how it differs from the old app, and how to use it without the noise.
The deep end — advanced prompting, the API, connector governance, agents, and rolling it out to a team.
The Pro+ prompting toolkit for Claude: structured prompts with clear sections, extended thinking for hard problems, role framing, output contracts, and the two-pass draft-critique pattern.
What the Claude API actually is, when a business person needs it versus chat, no-code and low-code routes, cost mechanics, and how to scope your first automated workflow.
The security thinking for Claude's powerful modes: what MCP connectors and Computer Use can reach, prompt injection in plain English, the access-autonomy-review triangle, and a practical governance setup.
The Claude team rollout: choosing team plans, seat strategy by role, the one-page policy, seeding role-specific recipes, and the adoption rhythm that survives week two.
Setting up Claude's computer-use feature, the workflows worth automating (and the ones that aren't yet), safety and oversight patterns.
Most people don't realize how much time they lose to file shuffling — renaming, sorting, converting, extracting.
Cowork's biggest practical win is creating Office-quality documents from scratch.
For technical roles. Setting up Claude Code, prompt patterns that actually ship code, MCP servers, hooks. The tool that turned vibe-coding into a real workflow.
Multi-turn agent workflows, connecting Claude to external tools via MCP, prompt chaining, evaluation patterns. The advanced curriculum for power users.
Email is where most knowledge workers lose 1-2 hours a day. With Cowork connected to Outlook (or Microsoft 365), the morning triage that used to take 90 minutes becomes a structured 15-minute review of what actually needs your attention.
Out-of-the-box Cowork is powerful. But its real superpower is extensibility — three different mechanisms for adding capabilities.
The last Cowork capability is the one that changes the relationship: scheduled tasks and live artifacts.
The most powerful model isn't always right. A 3-question decision framework by task, speed, and cost — and how to spend usage credits wisely after the June 23 pricing change.
When a model works autonomously for hours, the skill shifts from clever prompts to good briefs. Four delegation patterns: goals, constraints, checkpoints, and self-validation.
Why some requests get answered by Opus 4.8, why harmless ones occasionally trip the filter, and what the new 30-day data retention means for your company's AI policy.
All 36 Claude lessons are available today — plus every other tool track, the hands-on builds, and the playground. Founding pricing — $9/mo Pro, $19/mo Pro+ — locks your rate for life: the price you join at never goes up.
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