Everything You Need to Go from Beginner to Practitioner

Two learning paths take you from your first Claude prompt to advanced practitioner workflows. Every lesson is hands-on: you write, Claude responds.

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Starter pathway · Free

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The Claude basics. Why it matters, what the three levels look like in practice, and the day-one essentials. Free.

Claude · Track 1: Foundations

Free7 lessons

Why Claude?

Go from zero to actually useful with Claude in 30 minutes. Hands-on from the first minute.

Included in Full Access53 lessons

What's New in Claude

Every time Anthropic ships a new Claude feature, we ship the lesson the same day. Start here to learn what just launched and how to actually use it.

Claude · Track 2: Professional Prompting

Included in Full Access6 lessons

Strategic Prompting

The skill that separates people who get generic output from people who get output they actually use. Context, iteration, and advanced techniques.

Included in Full Access12 lessons

Claude in Your Daily Work

See how all three levels of Claude apply to the work you actually do every day — documents, email, data, planning, and real workflows.

Included in Full Access8 lessons

Marketing with Claude

A working marketer's course: briefs, ad variants, audience research, repurposing, SEO, brand voice, and analytics, all done with Claude and checked like a professional.

Free5 lessons

The Three Modes

Claude comes in three modes: Chat, Co-work, and Code. Learn what each one does, when to reach for it, and how to pick the right level for any task.

Included in Full Access8 lessons

Private Equity & Finance with Claude

A working course for deal teams and finance professionals: screen CIMs, run diligence, review models, draft IC memos, and report on portfolio companies with Anthropic's Claude, and learn exactly when not to trust the output.

Claude · Track 3: Claude Code

Free4 lessons

Master the Essentials

Writing, documents, research, and decisions. Five practical skills that make Claude useful for real work, not just demos.

Advanced practitioner · Free

The way I actually use it.

This is the system I run my own businesses on. Memory files, agent skills, MCPs, automation. Free.

Claude · Track 4: API & Agents

Included in Full Access5 lessons

Level Up

Skills, integrations, and automated workflows that turn Claude into your operating system.

Claude · Track 5: Architect

Included in Full Access6 lessons

Build Something Real

Hands-on Claude Code tutorial: build real tools, automate workflows, and create your first AI-powered system step by step.

Included in Full Access5 lessons

Build a Website

Build a real, multi-page website from scratch using Claude Code and deploy it to the internet.

Included in Full Access5 lessons

Build Your First Agent

Build an autonomous agent that takes actions on your behalf -- not a chatbot, a doer.

Included in Full Access6 lessons

Automate Your Workflow

Take a repetitive task you're tired of and build an automation that handles it.

Included in Full Access6 lessons

Build a Content System

Build a complete system for consistently producing great content -- not one blog post, a machine.

Claude · Track 6: The Practitioner Setup

Free6 lessons

The Practitioner Setup

The complete Claude Code setup for professional workflows. CLAUDE.md as your project spine. STATE.md and MEMORY.md for durable memory. Hooks, MCP servers, skills, and cron automation. Everything that makes Claude compound across sessions instead of starting from scratch.

Claude · Track 7: Advanced Workflows

Included in Full Access4 lessons

Advanced Workflows & Agents

Slash commands for automation, agent specs that prevent scope creep, multi-agent coordination, and hardening patterns that make AI workflows reliable in production.

Included in Full Access4 lessons

Hooks, Memory & Infrastructure

Hooks that enforce what you forget. Bridges that connect autonomous agents to your terminal. A tiered memory architecture that scales past 50 files without blowing your context window. The full operating system, assembled.

Claude · Track 8: Fable 5

Free4 lessons

Fable 5: Claude's Most Capable Model

Anthropic's Fable 5 is the first publicly available Mythos-class model. Learn what it is, why long messy tasks are its specialty, and how to put it to work.

Microsoft Copilot · First week

Included in Full Access6 lessons

Your first week with Microsoft 365 Copilot at work

Practical first-week skills for people whose company gave them Microsoft 365 Copilot: clear your inbox, draft documents, ask spreadsheets questions, catch up on meetings, build slides, and check the output against the source every time. Features vary by Copilot license and organization settings, and lesson 1 shows how to tell what you have.

ChatGPT · First week

Included in Full Access6 lessons

Your first week with ChatGPT at work

Real work tasks with ChatGPT: action lists, a shared workspace, live document edits, answers from your own files, standing preferences, and a check before you hit send. Nightschool AI is independent and not affiliated with or endorsed by OpenAI.

Google Gemini · First week

Included in Full Access6 lessons

Your First Week With Google Gemini at Work

Use Gemini inside Gmail, Docs, Sheets, Meet and Drive for real work tasks, and learn what to check against your own sources before anything goes out. Needs an eligible Google Workspace or Google AI plan.

Meta Muse · First week

Included in Full Access6 lessons

Your first week with Meta Muse

Practical first-week skills for Meta Muse, Meta's personal AI agent: hand it a real errand, choose what it can reach, approve emails and purchases before they happen, give it a longer goal, and check its work against your own records. Meta says Muse is rolling out in the US (a later Meta post adds Canada) and is free for most of what people need, with subscription plans for more, so what you see may depend on your rollout and plan. Nightschool AI is independent and not affiliated with or endorsed by Meta.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the best Claude AI curriculum?

Nightschool AI offers a Claude-specific curriculum with 18 courses across beginner and advanced learning paths, covering fundamentals, professional prompting, Claude Code, API development, agent architecture, practitioner setup, and advanced workflows. Every course includes hands-on exercises.

Are the Nightschool AI courses free?

Nightschool AI is free to start: both learning paths begin with complete starter courses, no credit card required. Full Access unlocks all 18 courses plus starter templates and a builder toolkit for those who want to ship faster.

What order should I take the courses?

Start with the beginner path if you are new to Claude. If you already use Claude daily, start with the advanced path, which covers Claude Code, memory systems, and agent workflows. Each path works sequentially, but you can jump to any course that matches your level.

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Start with the free starter courses. No credit card required.

18 courses. Start the free first lesson.

Nightschool AI is an independent learning platform and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Anthropic. Claude is a trademark of Anthropic, PBC. Looking for Anthropic's official Claude Academy? It's at academy.claude.com.