Where the courses are
The courses live at Anthropic Academy, academy.claude.com. If you find an older link to a site called Skilljar, use the Academy instead. The old site says it closes in early December 2026.
The courses, side by side
| Course | Length | Needs | For a beginner? |
|---|---|---|---|
| Getting started with Claude (tutorial) | About 5 minutes | Any plan | Yes, do it first |
| Claude 101 | 13 lessons, about 2.5 hours | Any plan, also Free. A few parts need a paid plan | Yes, the main one |
| AI Fluency: Framework and Foundations | 14 lessons, about 1 hour of video, 3 to 4 hours with the exercises | Nothing | Yes, if you like to understand before you click |
| Introduction to Claude Cowork | 14 lessons | A paid plan and the computer app | Yes, once you pay for Claude |
| Claude Code 101 | 12 lessons, about 1.5 hours | A paid plan, a code editor and the command line | No, it is written for developers |
1Getting started with Claude
A five minute tutorial. It shows a first message with four parts (context, the task, the format, the material), what an answer can be (text, a chart, a document, slides, a spreadsheet) and what Claude remembers about you. Open the tutorial.
2Claude 101
The official starting course. No experience with Claude or any other AI needed. It goes in this order: meet Claude and have a first conversation, organise your work with projects, connect your tools, then examples by job role. You get a certificate at the end. Open Claude 101.
3AI Fluency: Framework and Foundations
This one is about thinking, not buttons. Anthropic built it with two university professors. It teaches four habits: decide what to give AI and what to keep, describe clearly what you want, judge what comes back, and use it responsibly. No code. Open AI Fluency.
4Introduction to Claude Cowork
The course for people who do not code but want Claude to do whole tasks: set up a working folder, connect your tools, run a first task from start to end, then save your repeating jobs. Since September 2026 Anthropic calls this just Claude, and the course page says what you learn still works. Open the course.
Skip for now: Claude Code 101
You will see this one recommended a lot. It is written for developers and expects you to know a code editor and the command line. If that is not you, leave it.
A sensible order for a beginner
- The 5 minute tutorial, today.
- Claude 101, over a week, one part a day.
- AI Fluency, when you want to get better at asking and checking.
- Introduction to Claude Cowork, the day you start paying for Claude.
What a free course cannot do
These courses are good and they are free. What they cannot do is sit next to you. They teach with their own examples, and your inbox, your files and your calendar are not in them. Getting from the lesson to your own Monday morning is the part you do alone.
That part is what my course and classes are for. The 5-lesson course runs inside Claude on your own files for 490 SEK, and in a private class in Stockholm we build one thing from your own work together, on your computer.
Start with what is yours
The free AI audit is 11 quick questions, about 2 minutes. I send you what AI can take off your plate, with an example of each, so you know what to practise on.
Sources
- Anthropic Academy: academy.claude.com
- Claude 101: academy.claude.com/courses/claude-101
- Getting started with Claude: academy.claude.com/tutorials/getting-started-with-claude
- AI Fluency: Framework and Foundations: academy.claude.com/courses/ai-fluency-framework-foundations
- Introduction to Claude Cowork: academy.claude.com/courses/introduction-to-claude-cowork
- Claude Code 101 on Coursera: www.coursera.org/learn/claude-code-101
- Anthropic, Cowork is now Claude: claude.com/resources/articles/cowork-is-now-claude
All pages read 8 November 2026. Lesson counts and lengths are Anthropic's own numbers.