The full curriculum
10 modules. 3 phases. One live Student Dashboard.
Each phase is a complete tool: you can stop at the end of any one and use what you have. Modules are short, copy-paste, and built to be skipped around. Pull the writing module the week before an essay; pull the apps module when application season hits.
The Setup
Get Claude working for you in one weekend.
Start Here
Three short lessons that set the ground rules and give you the framework that runs through the whole course: The Honest Work Code. Open Claude, get your first deliverable, then unpack what just happened.
Get Set Up
The practical setup module: the one that gets you onto Claude correctly the first time. Free vs. Pro and when each makes sense, the interface tour, voice mode, and the privacy posture that protects you from day one.
Prompt Like a Pro
The simple formula that turns chatbot answers into useful ones, plus the follow-ups that steer the conversation. Five upgrades that make any answer better, and a clear-eyed look at where AI gets things wrong.
The Wins
Studying, writing, research, and applications.
Lectures, Notes & The Study System
Turn a 60-minute lecture into a study guide and a flashcard deck, run the “explain it back” technique that finds your real knowledge gaps, and walk into your next midterm with the 4-day, 2-day, day-of stack already loaded.
Editing With AI Without Losing Your Voice
The honest spectrum of what's universally okay, what's gray, what's not. How to find your school's actual policy. The voice-profile technique. The “edit don't write” workflow.
Research, Reading & Critical Thinking
The hallucinated-citation trap is one of the most dangerous mistakes students make with AI; this module makes sure it never happens to you. The source-checking workflow. Speed-reading dense PDFs without losing the plot. Synthesizing across sources for long-form papers. Using Claude as a sparring partner instead of a yes-man.
Apps, Resumes & Showing Up
Build your Application Profile once and tailor everything from it: personal statements, supplementals, scholarship essays, resumes, cover letters, LinkedIn. Mock-interview with Claude. Ask for a recommendation letter without being awkward. Hold the integrity line on every output.
The System
Wire the dashboard. Set it and forget it. Pro tier opens here for the Coach, the automations, and the Dashboard build.
Personal Coach
Phase 3 starts here. Build the Coach Cowork Project: a Claude workspace that knows your classes, your professors' policies, your writing voice, and the way you actually learn. Three workflows you'll run every week. Maintenance, stop-signs, and pairing it with voice mode on your phone.
Schedules, Money & Mental Bandwidth
The bandwidth module: the one that handles your life so you can think about your work. Syllabi to a calendar with app deadlines layered in. Group projects that don't blow up. Money basics with the bright line on AI as a thinking tool, not a financial advisor. The brain-dump-to-triaged-list move when you're staring down twenty things at once.
Automations & Scheduled Tasks
The Sunday Reset that runs every Sunday at 6pm whether you're paying attention or not. The Pre-Exam Watch that fires four nudges per midterm so you stop forgetting to start studying.
Your Student Life AI System
The assembly module. Build the live Cowork artifact that becomes your homepage for the school year, then wire your Coach (M7), Application Profile (M6.2), tagged calendar (M8), scheduled tasks (M9), and ten saved prompts into the panels you just built. One live page, six lessons, all the system is doing surfaces here.
Bonuses & references
Twelve reference pages you'll keep coming back to.
Short, single-purpose pages that live next to the modules. Open the one you need; close it when you're done. None of them are required reading.
Reference card
Other AI Tools: How to Think About Them
Where Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, Copilot, and Grok each quietly win: and the case for why this course committed to Claude.
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Local AI: Should You Care? (Probably Not.)
Cloud vs. local in plain terms, the six tradeoffs, and an honest decision tree. For almost every student: stay cloud and stop worrying about it.
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Subject Cheat Sheet: STEM, Humanities, Languages, CS
The subject-specific playbook prompts pulled out of Lesson 3.3 and laid flat on one page. STEM coach (don't solve), Humanities Socratic, Languages partner, Coding "explain my error."
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Annotated Bibs the Right Way
The annotated-bibliography move done honestly. Three prompts, two traps, and a clean callback to the Citation Trap from Lesson 5.1.
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Networking Emails That Don't Sound Robotic
Cold outreach, alum intros, post-meeting follow-ups, group-event thank-yous, and the second-touch escalation. Voice-rules grid plus the "pick your brain" warning.
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Dorm, Lease & Roommate Helpers
Lease translator, roommate-agreement template, packing list, move-in admin checklist, and the hard-conversation script.
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Health Admin Without Overwhelm
AI is not a doctor, not therapy, and not diagnostic. With that bright line clearly drawn: EOB translator, plan summarizer, appeal-letter draft, pre-visit prep, and prescription decoder.
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Travel Planning with Claude
Packing list, itinerary skeleton, study-abroad logistics, and reverse-packing for going home. Plus the verification habit for any passport / visa / customs claim.
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Setup Cheat Sheet: Mobile + Desktop
Phone install + sync (iOS/Android), voice-mode turn-on, notifications-as-summary-not-interrupt, the surface matrix, and the once-a-term re-check.
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What Else Cowork Can Do
The Cowork capabilities that didn't fit in the main lessons: organizing files, batch-drafting replies, cross-app workflows, working while you sleep. A menu of what else is possible once you've got it set up.
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Dashboard Reference
The always-open companion to your Student Dashboard from Lesson 10.2. The Blueprint re-paste template, the master update-prompt library (one prompt per block), five common dashboard problems with fixes, and a small bank of dashboard-specific scheduled-task prompts. Bookmark this and the dashboard together.
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Capstone Troubleshooting: Six Stuck Points
Six fix recipes for the dashboard issues students actually hit: task not firing, Coach gone stale, Cowork Project too crowded, prompts gone generic, voice atrophied, week-long gap. Plus when to ask a human instead.
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