Video course · 12 chapters · 31 min · certificate
Claude AI for Beginners: Complete Starter Guide
Get started with Claude: sign-up and plans, custom instructions, projects, memory, adaptive thinking, artifacts, search versus research, the current model lineup, and Cowork.
What you'll learn
- Set up Claude with custom instructions
- Organize work with projects
- Use memory across conversations
- Understand adaptive thinking
- Build interactive artifacts
- Choose the right model and plan
Chapters
12 chapters · 30:44-
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01Setup Members
Getting started with Claude
Signing up, the plans, the interface and custom instructions.
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1:13
02Organization Members
Projects
Projects hold documents and instructions for one stream of work so every chat has the context.
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1:49
03Organization Members
Memory
Memory keeps facts about you across all conversations, summarized automatically.
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4:15
04Models Members
Adaptive thinking
Claude now decides how much to think per task instead of a fixed thinking budget.
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2:43
05Build Members
Artifacts
Artifacts render interactive content, like a budget calculator, in a panel beside the chat.
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2:19
06Research Members
Search versus Research
Quick web search versus agentic Research that plans, runs many searches and returns cited reports.
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5:03
07Models Members
Sonnet 5
The everyday workhorse model, shown building a gamified language-learning app in one HTML file.
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2:50
08Models Members
Opus
Opus for tasks that hold large, complex structures in mind, at a higher price per token.
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2:27
09Models Members
Fable 5
The top tier: a model you brief rather than prompt, able to run long projects on its own.
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2:38
10Models Members
Haiku and sub-agents
Haiku for fast, high-volume work, including spinning up many sub-agents to process data.
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1:38
11Workflows Members
Cowork and workflows
Cowork, Design and dynamic workflows that share context across tasks.
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1:58
12Plans Members
Choosing a plan
What the free, Pro and higher plans include, and which to choose.
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