Get ready to work with Claude from day one.
Claude is the AI assistant made by Anthropic. Get set up, work through four of their free courses at your own pace, and finish with the habits that apply at any company.
Cost
Free
Self-paced, about 12.5 hours across all 4 courses.
When you’re done
4 completion badges
Proof you’ve covered the fundamentals. Share them with your team.
Before you start
Three things to set up first
Each takes a few minutes. Do all three before your first course so you can practise as you learn.
Step 01
Accept your company’s Claude invite
Look for an email from Anthropic inviting you to your company’s Claude workspace, or sign in with your work account if your company uses single sign-on.
Didn’t get it? Ask IT or your manager.
Step 02
Install the Claude desktop app
It lets Claude work directly with the files and folders on your computer.
Download the app (opens in a new tab)Step 03
Create a free Claude Academy account
You need it to take courses and earn completion badges.
Go to Claude Academy (opens in a new tab)
The checklist
Seven steps to working with Claude
Take them in order. Each course is free and ends with a short quiz and a completion badge. The other steps have no completion badge; they just take a few minutes.
Step 1: AI Capabilities and Limitations
BadgeHow AI actually works, and where it gets things wrong.
3.5 hours· Course
Step 2: Claude 101
BadgeUsing Claude for everyday work: prompts, projects, files and connected tools.
2.5 hours· Course
Step 3: AI Fluency: Framework and Foundations
BadgeThe 4D framework for working with AI effectively, ethically and safely.
4 hours· Course
Step 4: Getting started with connectors
Connect the tools you already use, so Claude works with your live files and apps instead of copies.
Setting up Claude for your team? Connectors guide for admins (opens in a new tab)
4 min· Tutorial
Step 5: Introduction to Claude Cowork
BadgeHanding Claude multi-step work on your real files and folders.
Claude Cowork is now just Claude. See what changed (opens in a new tab)
2.5 hours· Course
Step 6: Anthropic’s Usage Policy
What Claude may and may not be used for. Read it once.
20 min· Read
Step 7: The habits that apply everywhere
The habits that hold at any company: what to share, what to check, and who owns the result.
10 min· Read
No need to save as you go. Claude Academy keeps every completion badge on your dashboard. Download them all when you finish up.
Optional · Using Slack?
BetaSlack onlyAdd Claude Tag
Claude Tag brings Claude into your team’s Slack channels. Learn where to hand it work, how to steer and correct it, and the habits that make it more useful over time.
2.5 hours · CourseEarns a completion badge
Claude Tag currently works in Slack only. If your company doesn’t use Slack, skip this for now.
For your role
Pick your role for extra learning
Short examples matched to your role. Optional, but highly recommended once the checklist is done.
Browse by Claude Academy department
Or pick a real estate role
Not sure where you fit? Browse all of Claude Academy (opens in a new tab)
Choose a role above to see your list
You’ll get four to six hand-picked examples, each 6 to 20 minutes, plus a link to everything Claude Academy has for that kind of work. Pick the one closest to your job title; you can switch any time.
Accounting and Finance
Claude helps you reconcile accounts, explain variances, and work through spreadsheets you inherited.
Asset Management and Investments
Claude helps you review offering memos, build comparison tables, and draft investor updates.
Development and Construction
Claude helps you summarise consultant reports, track change orders, and draft site meeting minutes.
Executive and Administration
Claude helps you prepare for meetings, draft policies and memos, and keep projects moving.
Leasing
Claude helps you answer prospect emails faster, write listing copy, and compare applications against your criteria.
Property Management
Claude helps you draft tenant notices, summarise inspection reports, and turn maintenance logs into clear updates.
Universal habits
The habits that apply everywhere
These are the baseline at any company. Your employer’s AI policy always takes precedence: where they differ, follow your employer’s policy.
You own the output. Claude drafts; you check it and put your name on it.
Check facts, figures and sources before anything leaves your hands.
Share only what the task needs. Leave out personal, client and confidential information unless your company has approved it.
Use your work account for work, never a personal one.
Give it context. A clear brief with examples beats a one-line ask.
Be open about AI help where it matters, following your company’s policy.
When in doubt, ask before you paste.
Flag slips fast. If something sensitive goes in by mistake, tell IT or your manager right away.
Finish up
Earn your completion badges, then put Claude to work
Four completion badges and you’re done. Then the real learning starts: using Claude on your own work.
Collect your completion badges
Pass each course’s short quiz to earn its completion badge.
They all wait on your Claude Academy dashboard, ready to download or show your manager.
Open your Academy dashboard (opens in a new tab)What’s next
Try it on a real task this week.
Pick something you’d normally spend an hour on.
Want more? Browse everything on Claude Academy (opens in a new tab)