What you’ll learn
- Three modules introduce Custom GPT instructions, knowledge files/RAG, tools/actions and persona design
- Later units cover systematic test cases/benchmarks, clear output patterns and handling ambiguity, knowledge gaps and risky requests.
- Travel-and-business-expense GPT is the recurring example: flights, hotels and transportation within policy/budget and expense/reimbursement processing.
What does the learning look like?
- Six assignments are listed, including creating a persona-based custom GPT, a GPT test-case generator, menu-based flows and response-improvement patterns.
- Testing expected, ambiguous and high-risk cases
Example to try
A better first draft
- 01Start with
A brief or an existing document
- 02Make a first pass
A draft, summary or revision
- 03Make it yours
Check the facts and tone
Use a fictional example to practise the workflow.
Cost, access and setup
Course cost
- Listed as included in Coursera Plus. Check your subscription for access.
Check the currency and total with the provider.
Check whether tax is included.
What you’ll need
- No prior experience required per listing.
- Curriculum focuses on configuring Custom GPTs and interaction patterns
- Tool tags include OpenAI API, but the described travel/expense examples center on custom GPT design.
How you’ll learn
- Seven hours total per listing
- The three module estimates (2h, 3h, 2h) also sum to 7h.
- Beginner-level, self-paced Vanderbilt course.
- Listed as included in Coursera Plus.
- Check your subscription for access.
- No enrollment/check-out performed.
Certificate
- Shareable Vanderbilt/Coursera course-completion certificate listed
- Not an external AI-builder certification or academic credit.
Help along the way
- Six assignments (some AI-graded per listing), videos and readings are listed
Instructor
- Dr.
- Jules White is named as instructor
- Vanderbilt University is the provider.
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