Google Prompting Essentials is taught by AI experts at Google who are working to make technology helpful for everyone. In under 6 hours, you’ll learn how to prompt effectively and make AI work for you. The course includes videos and readings, and you’ll be able to practice prompt writing with hands-on activities. As you progress through the course, you'll build a library of reusable prompts, so the next time you need a little help from AI, you don’t need to start from scratch.

This self-paced course is designed to fit into busy schedules, and the skills taught are applicable across any gen AI tool or model. You don’t need any technical or prompt writing experience to start. After you complete the course, you’ll earn a certificate from Google to share with your network and potential employers.

In the course, you’ll learn several prompting techniques that can be used with any gen AI tool or model. These techniques include:

• The 5 step prompting framework
• 4 key iteration methods
• Text-to-text and text-to-image prompting
• Multimodal prompting
• Few shot prompting
• Prompt chaining

You’ll engage in a series of hands-on activities, readings, quizzes, and educational videos taught by AI experts at Google that deepen your understanding of these techniques, which will help you to prompt effectively and make AI work for you.

In this course, we’ll demonstrate how to design prompts using Gemini and other Google AI tools, like Gemini for Google Workspace and Google AI Studio. However, all of the prompting techniques and best practices you’ll learn in this course can be applied across any gen AI tool or model of your choice.

Google Prompting Essentials includes 4 modules:

• Start writing prompts like a pro
• Design prompts for everyday work tasks
• Speed up data analysis and presentation building
• Use AI as a creative or expert partner

Both courses are beginner friendly and have no prerequisite requirements, but both courses have a distinct focus.

Google AI Essentials teaches foundational AI concepts and definitions, and discusses common AI use cases. Google Prompting Essentials focuses on teaching individuals how to effectively instruct AI by following 5 easy steps to build effective prompts.

Yes, Google Prompting Essentials teaches meta-prompting. With meta-prompting, you can enlist gen AI’s help to design an effective prompt, or take one you’ve already designed to the next level. Meta-prompting comes with its own set of best practices, called power-up strategies. These strategies are covered in Module 4 of the course.

The course was designed by AI experts at Google, who are working to make the technology helpful for everyone.

In the U.S. and Canada, the subscription cost is $49 USD per month after an initial 7-day free trial period. All Google Career Essentials are completely self-paced, and many learners complete their certificate within one month.

In other countries where Google Career Certificates or Google Career Essentials are available, your cost may be lower. To see the exact cost in your local currency, please visit the Coursera page and view the enrollment options.