Claude for Productivity

By: Drew Garman

Claude Cowork is built to handle the business tasks that slow you down. Starting with the basics of the interface, you'll move quickly into practical, real-world workflows from managing your inbox and meetings to building proposals, slide decks, and reports. If you have a recurring task that eats up your time, this course shows you how to hand it off to Claude.

By: Drew Garman

This course focuses on getting real, day-to-day value out of Claude and Cowork. Students start with the fundamentals that determine whether an AI workflow succeeds or fails—writing prompts as constraints, managing context, memory, and files, choosing between a skill and a prompt, wiring up connectors and MCPs, using Plan Mode, and putting safety rails around destructive actions. From there, the course works through a series of real-world use cases drawn from engineering, security, operations, and knowledge work—from building a custom Snowflake MCP and running an IAM audit at scale, to roasting postmortems, deploying on a comment, onboarding new hires in M365, and triaging an inbox of 247 unread messages. By the end, students will know how to design Claude workflows that are predictable, auditable, and genuinely useful in their own environment.

By: Drew Garman

Claude Cowork Extending Capabilities begins with Skill authoring (scope, drift testing, versioning, and publishing to the open standard), then moves into building and shipping plugins with proper permissions, secrets handling, and private enterprise marketplaces. From there students go deep on custom MCPs that mutate state, run async, compose inside plugins, and fail usefully, then graduate to Managed Agents; including multi-agent orchestration, cross-session memory, and outcomes-driven self-improvement. The course closes with a capstone in which students assemble a production-grade IDirectShips stack for a fictional customer. By the end, students will be able to package, harden, and operate reusable Claude Code capabilities across an organization.

By: Drew Garman

This practical course teaches professionals how to use AI to dramatically accelerate the most common tasks in modern knowledge work, from producing polished documents and decks to drafting communications and running research. Across four focused modules, you'll build a repeatable toolkit for turning raw inputs into high-quality deliverables in a fraction of the usual time. The course is structured around real workplace scenarios, so every skill is immediately applicable. Whether you're a writer, analyst, manager, or operator, you'll finish with concrete workflows that replace busywork with leverage.

By: Dan Treasure

This essentials course introduces beginners to Claude Code, an AI-powered development tool available via CLI and desktop app. Designed for first-time users, learners progress from installation through essential workflows including codebase exploration, code changes, Git operations, debugging, and testing.

By: Dan Treasure

This power user course advances beyond the basics to unlock Claude Code's full potential for experienced developers. Learners master advanced interaction techniques like Extended Thinking and VIM mode, sophisticated session management with memory and parallel workflows, and comprehensive configuration options including permissions, sandbox mode, and IDE integrations.

By: Dan Treasure

This enterprise development course equips teams to deploy and scale Claude Code across organizations. Learners master extending Claude Code through subagents, hooks, plugins, and custom MCP servers, then progress to CI/CD automation with GitHub Actions, GitLab, and headless scripting.