AssistantAI TRAINING
Learning guide · 5 courses

Research and write better briefs with AI

When you prepare a briefing, keep facts, interpretation, uncertainty and unsupported claims easy to tell apart. Research tools, file analysis and lessons about model limits can help in different ways. Choose practice that shows how to select and check sources, then read the cited passage yourself.

Find your starting point

AI Research, Files & Productivity with ChatGPT and Claude combines file analysis, research workflows, checking, projects and cloud drives. AI for Research & Analysis covers market, scientific and academic research, with eight assignments listed. AI for Research and Insights is a shorter course on Gemini Deep Research reports, mixed-source summaries, reusable personas and source checks. Its three labs are ungraded.

Boosting Your Productivity with AI Deep Research shows projects on design trends, housing, technical questions and an app-building example. AI capabilities and limitations from Anthropic takes a different angle: how predictions, context and instructions affect answers, with exercises and a final quiz.

Compare which sources each course uses and how it handles disagreement. When a detail is missing, say so instead of guessing.

Example to try

Get from reading to a useful brief

  1. 01Start with

    A question and a few documents

  2. 02Make a first pass

    An answer with supporting evidence

  3. 03Make it yours

    Open the references and check the claims

Use a fictional example to practise the workflow.

Compare the courses

CourseWhat you’ll doTimeCost and access
AI Research, Files & Productivity with ChatGPT and ClaudeSawan Kumar
  • The course outline demonstrates file/research tasks and advertises a resource library
  • 3h 44m of video
  • Check the course page for current pricing and software requirements.
AI for Research & AnalysisAI CERTs
  • Eight assignments are listed.
  • 8 hours to complete
  • Check the course page for certificate pricing, free trials and options to study without a certificate.
  • Listed as included in Coursera Plus. Check your subscription for access.
AI for Research and InsightsGoogle
  • Three ungraded labs cover a research report, a topic brief and an expert-advice exercise.
  • The course also lists one assessment.
  • 1 hour to complete
  • Check the course page for certificate pricing, free trials and options to study without a certificate.
  • Listed as included in Coursera Plus. Check your subscription for access.
Boosting Your Productivity with AI Deep ResearchLinkedIn Learning
  • Three demonstrated research projects and an app-building demonstration are described.
  • 22m

See course page for pricing.

AI capabilities and limitationsAnthropic / Claude Academy
  • Thirteen lessons pair explanations with hands-on exercises and a final quiz.
  • It is a companion to AI Fluency, designed to be taken in either order.
  • 3.5-hour course estimate
  • The course is free.
  • Software for the exercises may need a paid plan. Check the account requirements before you start.

Take a closer look

Course page preview: AI for Research & Analysis
Office workflowsAI CERTs

AI for Research & Analysis

Use AI for market, scientific and academic research, with assignments on research design and evaluating information.

Format
Self-paced
Time
8 hours to complete
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Office workflowsGoogle

AI for Research and Insights

Use Gemini Deep Research to create reports and mixed-source summaries, then check the supporting sources.

Format
Self-paced
Time
1 hour to complete
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Office workflowsAnthropic / Claude Academy

AI capabilities and limitations

Explore how prediction, context windows and instructions shape Claude’s responses, including its knowledge limits.

Format
Self-paced
Time
3.5-hour course estimate
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Try this before you choose

Write a fictional briefing request with one confirmed fact, one conflicting claim and one unknown. Ask how each course finds, cites, compares and labels those details, then check its current dates, account needs, access and assessment.

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