How many courses are in the AI for Beginners path?

The AI for Beginners path includes 4 hands-on courses, roughly 37 modules and about 28 hours of learning. You earn 38 badges along the way.

What do I earn when I finish the AI for Beginners path?

You collect a badge for every module you complete, a Certificate of Completion for each course, and you advance toward the Journeyman rank on the Rana-AI Tech rank ladder.

Do I need any prerequisites or coding experience?

No. The Novice path starts from zero — no prior AI experience and no coding required.

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Learning Path 1 · Novice

Novice

AI for Beginners

Start from zero. The Novice path teaches what AI is, how to choose a tool, how to prompt, and how to use AI safely — four hands-on courses, badges and a certificate.

4 courses 37 modules ~28 hours 38 badges 📜 Certificate per course 🏅 Earns the Journeyman rank

Courses in this path

AI 101

Compare and Select the Right AI Platform

9 modules 9 badges

View course → AI 103

Skills & competencies you'll master

Pass each module's knowledge check to rate these competencies COMPLETE. Across the whole AI for Beginners path you'll demonstrate 37 distinct skills:

Explain what AI and LLMs are in plain terms
Hold an effective AI conversation and refine outputs
Apply core AI safety habits: privacy, verification, human oversight
Choose an appropriate AI tool for a task
Produce work products with AI (documents, images, templates)
Ground AI with your own files, the web, and research
Describe what an AI agent is and its guardrails
Apply AI to your own role
Maintain a sustainable personal AI practice
Recognize that AI-tool choice is low-stakes and reversible
Identify the main AI platforms and who makes them
Explain what all AI platforms have in common
Compare the strengths of the major AI platforms
Decide when free vs paid AI is appropriate
Apply data-safety rules when choosing a platform
Recognize AI built into existing business tools
Use a decision framework to choose a platform
Run a fair head-to-head comparison of AI tools
Explain why prompting is the core AI skill
Structure a prompt with role, task, context, format, and example
Improve results by giving the AI an example
Control an AI output's format, length, and tone
Refine AI output through iteration
Use a role to sharpen AI output
Apply prompt patterns for common office tasks
Build and reuse a personal prompt library
Avoid common prompting pitfalls
Recognize personal responsibility for safe AI use
Explain how AI tiers use, retain, and train on data
Classify data green/yellow/red before sharing
Secure AI accounts and sessions
Configure data-control settings on major AI tools
Redact and anonymize inputs before sharing
Route AI adoption through approved channels
Recognize AI-enabled phishing, deepfakes, and prompt injection
Verify AI output before trusting it
Produce and follow a personal safe-use checklist

The rank you'll earn

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Journeyman

Every Rana-AI Tech course awards badges and a Certificate of Completion. Finish the AI for Beginners path and you advance to the Journeyman rank on the gamified rank ladder — a gold meta-badge that recognizes mastery of the whole tier.

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