Free Claude Courses from Anthropic
17 free, self-paced courses from Anthropic covering Claude, Claude Code, the API, MCP, agent skills, and subagents, plus AI fluency tracks for educators, students, and nonprofits
Anthropic provides a free, self-paced course catalog on covering Claude, Claude Code, the Claude API, MCP, and several AI fluency tracks tailored to educators, students, and nonprofits. Available at anthropic.skilljar.com.
I’ve taken a couple of these. They’re short. If it matters to you, when you complete the course you can get a certificate that you can wire up to your LinkedIn profile, which link out to the verified cert (example).
Full list as of this week below.
Claude 101: Learn how to use Claude for everyday work tasks, understand core features, and explore resources for more advanced learning on other topics.
Claude Code 101: Learn how to use Claude Code effectively in your daily development workflow.
Introduction to Claude Cowork: Learn to work alongside Claude on your real files and projects. This hands-on course covers the Cowork task loop, plugins and skills, file and research workflows, and how to steer multi-step work responsibly, so you’re productive in your first week.
Claude Code in Action: Integrate Claude Code into your development workflow.
AI Fluency: Framework & Foundations: Learn to collaborate with AI systems effectively, efficiently, ethically, and safely.
Building with the Claude API: This comprehensive course covers the full spectrum of working with Anthropic models using the Claude API.
Introduction to Model Context Protocol: Learn to build Model Context Protocol servers and clients from scratch using Python. Master MCP’s three core primitives (tools, resources, and prompts) to connect Claude with external services.
AI Fluency for educators: This course empowers faculty, instructional designers, and educational leaders to apply AI Fluency into their own teaching practice and institutional strategy.
AI Fluency for students: This course empowers students to develop AI Fluency skills that enhance learning, career planning, and academic success through responsible AI collaboration.
Model Context Protocol: Advanced Topics: Discover advanced Model Context Protocol implementation patterns including sampling, notifications, file system access, and transport mechanisms for production MCP server development.
Claude with Amazon Bedrock: As part of an accreditation program created for AWS, Anthropic launched a first-of-its-kind training for AWS employees. Here’s the full course so you can follow along.
Claude with Google Cloud’s Vertex AI: This comprehensive course covers the full spectrum of working with Anthropic models through Google Cloud’s Vertex AI.
Teaching AI Fluency: This course empowers academic faculty, instructional designers, and others to teach and assess AI Fluency in instructor-led settings.
AI Fluency for nonprofits: This course empowers nonprofit professionals to develop AI fluency in order to increase organizational impact and efficiency while staying true to their mission and values.
Introduction to agent skills: Learn how to build, configure, and share Skills in Claude Code, reusable markdown instructions that Claude automatically applies to the right tasks at the right time. This course takes you from creating your first Skill to distributing them across teams and troubleshooting common issues.
Introduction to subagents: Learn how to use and create sub-agents in Claude Code to manage context, delegate tasks, and build specialized workflows that keep your main conversation clean and focused.
AI Capabilities and Limitations: An introductory course about how AI works.