Google Prompting Essentials

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Google Prompting Essentials

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An easy-to-remember prompt-writing framework; a few sessions are enough to apply it right away.

A short Google course dedicated to prompt writing: the structure of a good prompt and how to iterate and refine so the AI answers as intended.

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Overview

Google Prompting Essentials focuses on exactly one skill: writing prompts. The course offers a framework of steps for writing clearer requests to AI, then how to refine them gradually when results fall short.

The examples are tied to office work such as writing emails, analyzing data and preparing presentations. No programming knowledge is needed.

Highlights

An easy-to-remember prompt framework

Applicable with ChatGPT, Gemini and Claude.

Learn through office examples

Emails, reports, presentations.

Short

Finish in a few sessions.

What it's for

Write template prompts for the team

Create a standard prompt set for repeated tasks in the company.

Less back-and-forth editing

Learn to refine prompts instead of accepting the first answer.

How to use it

1
Open the course page
Click Open official page to go to the Coursera page.
2
Register an account
Create a free account to save your learning progress.
3
Study lesson by lesson
The duration is a few hours; it is best to split it into 30–60 minutes a day.
4
Apply it to real work right away
After each lesson, try the technique you just learned on a specific task of yours.