Anthropic is really going all out this time, throwing open all 22 Claude courses for free—no penny required.

I gritted my teeth and slogged through every single one. Truth be told, some of it feels pretty half-baked, but others are genuinely worth your time. To save you from flailing around cluelessly, I’ve sorted them for you from zero-to-hero progression. Just follow this order, and you’re golden.

I. First, build a solid foundation—don’t dive straight into the tough stuff 01 Claude 101 🔗 https://academy.claude.com/courses/claude-101… 02 Claude Collaboration Basics 🔗 https://academy.claude.com/courses/introduction-to-claude-cowork… II. If you’re dealing with coding, zero in on these—Claude Code can actually get real work done these days 03 Claude Code 101 🔗 https://academy.claude.com/courses/claude-code-101… 04 Claude Code in Action 🔗 https://academy.claude.com/courses/claude-code-in-action… 05 Agent Skills Basics 🔗 https://academy.claude.com/courses/introduction-to-agent-skills… 06 Subagents Basics 🔗 https://academy.claude.com/courses/introduction-to-subagents… III. If you’re gearing up for API integration or the dev path, don’t skip the platform stuff 07 Claude Platform 101 🔗 https://academy.claude.com/courses/claude-platform-101… 08 Developing with the Claude API 🔗 https://academy.claude.com/courses/building-with-the-claude-api… 09 MCP Basics 🔗 https://academy.claude.com/courses/introduction-to-model-context-protocol… 10 MCP Advanced Topics 🔗 https://academy.claude.com/courses/model-context-protocol-advanced-topics… 11 Claude with Amazon Bedrock 🔗 https://academy.claude.com/courses/claude-with-amazon-bedrock… 12 Claude with Vertex AI 🔗 https://academy.claude.com/courses/claude-with-google-cloud-s-vertex-ai… IV. For foundational literacy stuff—this one’s aimed at all sorts, so there’s something for everyone 13 AI Literacy Framework and Basics 🔗 https://academy.claude.com/courses/ai-fluency-framework-foundations… 14 AI Capabilities and Limitations 🔗 https://academy.claude.com/courses/ai-capabilities-and-limitations… 15 Developer AI Literacy 🔗 https://academy.claude.com/courses/ai-fluency-for-builders… 16 Small Business AI Literacy 🔗 https://academy.claude.com/courses/ai-fluency-for-small-businesses… 17 Student AI Literacy 🔗 https://academy.claude.com/courses/ai-fluency-for-students… 18 Nonprofit AI Literacy 🔗 https://academy.claude.com/courses/ai-fluency-for-nonprofits… 19 Educator AI Literacy 🔗 https://academy.claude.com/courses/ai-fluency-for-educators… 20 K-12 Educator AI Literacy 🔗 https://academy.claude.com/courses/ai-fluency-for-k-12-educators… 21 K-12 Trainer Training 🔗 https://academy.claude.com/courses/ai-fluency-for-pk-12-train-the-trainer… 22 AI Literacy Instruction 🔗 https://academy.claude.com/courses/teaching-ai-fluency… I bet nine times out of ten, you’ll hit bookmark first, then forget about it in a flash. Courses gathering dust in your bookmarks? Might as well not exist.

So let me ask: How long has it been since you last finished a free course cover to cover? Kinda embarrassing to admit, but my last one wrapped up two years back. Free stuff? Folks tend to sleep on it. But if you actually chew through these Claude courses, the payoff’s way more than pocket change. Don’t just bookmark and bail—pick one tonight, crack it open, and dive in.

Claude 101 · Claude Academy

Source: https://academy.claude.com/courses/claude-101 Claude 101 is the starting point for anyone bringing Claude into their everyday work. You’ll go from your first conversation and the basics of effective prompting through to projects, artifacts, and skills, then on to Connectors, Enterprise Search, and Research for working with your tools, your company’s knowledge, and the web. Along the way you’ll see how Chat, Cowork, and Code in the desktop app fit different kinds of tasks, and you’ll finish with role-based use cases and a tour of Claude Code, Claude Tag, Claude Design, Claude for Microsoft 365, and Claude in Chrome.

Prerequisites

• A Claude account on any plan (Free, Pro, Max, Team, or Enterprise)
• No prior experience with Claude or other AI assistants needed
• A few features covered here require a paid plan to try hands-on: Cowork and creating designs, decks, and documents as artifacts (on Team and Enterprise, an admin may need to turn these on), and Enterprise Search (Team and Enterprise plans). Each lesson notes where this applies.

Who this course is for

Anyone getting started with Claude at work. New users who want a guided path from first message to confident daily use, and existing users who want a structured tour of projects, artifacts, skills, Connectors, Enterprise Search, and Research.