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YOURPACEAI WORKSHOP · Beginner

Prompting & everyday AI

Give useful context, set clear expectations, and assess the answers you receive.

60–90 minutes · Five modules, a portfolio workbook and automatic assessment.

No coding required. Use the supplied drafts or an approved AI assistant. Paid features are optional.

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Read all lessons freely here. The interactive workshop lets you save your workbook, take the automatic assessment and earn a non-accredited certificate.

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Practice materials

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Read the fictional source material
FICTIONAL EVENT BRIEF
Name: Riverside Skills Swap
Audience: adults curious about learning a new skill
Date: 14 November (fictional exercise; not a real event)
Venue: Riverside Library
Price: free
Booking: reply to the organiser
Time: not yet confirmed
Accessibility arrangements: ask the organiser; not yet confirmed

SUPPLIED FIRST DRAFT
Join us at 10am for the Riverside Skills Swap. Tickets are £5. Everyone can access all facilities.

PROMPT TEMPLATE
Task: [what to produce]
Audience: [who will read it]
Source facts: [paste fictional brief]
Constraints: use only supplied facts; flag gaps; no invented promises
Output: [format and length]
Review: compare against the source before use

A useful prompt, step by step

MODULE 1 OF 5

Give the task and context

A useful prompt states the task, relevant context, constraints and desired output. For example: “Draft a 100-word reminder for a fictional community event. Use a friendly tone. Include only these supplied details. Flag anything missing.”

Worked example

Input

Weak prompt: “Write an event email.”

Reviewed result

“Draft a friendly invitation under 100 words for adults new to skills swaps. Use the supplied brief only. Include date, venue, free price and booking action. Mark time and accessibility as unconfirmed.”

The task, audience, source boundaries and output requirements give you something concrete to evaluate.

Quick check: Should you include an attendee’s private contact details?

No. This exercise uses fictional information; follow approved-tool rules for any real data.

Your activity

Rewrite “Write an email” with a purpose, audience, length and the facts the assistant may use.

MODULE 2 OF 5

Improve the draft

Read the output against your requirements. Ask for a specific revision, such as clearer actions or a shorter opening. Keep the original facts available so a revision does not introduce invented details.

Worked example

Input

Draft says £5 and 10am, although the brief says free and no time.

Reviewed result

Revision instruction: “Replace £5 with free. Remove 10am. State that the time will be confirmed. Keep the booking action. Change nothing else.”

A targeted edit makes it easier to see whether a correction worked without losing correct facts.

Quick check: Is “make it better” enough to test a revision?

It is vague. Name the failing requirement and the specific change you need.

Your activity

Compare two versions. Identify one improvement and one remaining problem.

MODULE 3 OF 5

Check before using

Verify names, dates, numbers and claims. Do not paste private customer details into an unapproved tool. Use placeholders when practising and follow your organisation’s rules.

Worked example

Input

Checklist: supplied facts only; under 100 words; clear booking action; no access promises.

Reviewed result

Record pass/fail for each item, explain a failure, correct it, then repeat the check on the revised draft.

An attractive output can still fail accuracy or accessibility checks.

Quick check: Can one good output prove a reusable prompt always works?

No. Test a second brief, including one with missing information.

Your activity

Create a checklist for facts, tone, privacy and usefulness. Apply it to your draft.

MODULE 4 OF 5

Create and test three reusable prompts

Make a drafting prompt, a revision prompt and a source-check prompt. Keep editable placeholders for audience and facts. A source-check prompt is a helper, not a replacement for your own comparison.

Worked example

Source-check prompt: “List each factual claim alongside the brief passage supporting it. Mark missing support.” You still inspect each match yourself.

Your activity

Run the three prompts on the first fictional brief. Save the input, output and checklist result for each.

MODULE 5 OF 5

Test the pack on a changed brief

Change venue to Riverside Hall and mark the date as unconfirmed. Reuse the pack without inserting facts from the first event. Compare both tests with the same rubric.

Worked example

If the second output keeps the original date, the prompt pack has failed the new source check. Correct the prompt and retest rather than hiding the failure.

Your activity

Record two improvements, any remaining failure and a corrected final invitation in the workbook.

Your tested prompt pack

Create drafting, revision and checking prompts for the event brief. Test the pack against two versions of the brief.

Workbook sections

  1. Three reusable prompts with editable placeholders
  2. Test inputs and initial outputs for both briefs
  3. Reviewed outputs and a comparison of changes
  4. Checklist results, remaining limitations and safe-use notes

Review rubric

Automatic assessment and certificate

Five knowledge questions and three applied scenario checks are marked immediately. Pass with at least 4/5 knowledge answers and all 3/3 applied checks correct. Feedback and retries are available. Certificates also require five completed activities and a four-section workbook. The portfolio is recorded, not independently graded; the assessment is open-book, unproctored and non-accredited.

Take the workshop assessment

Continue with external study

Go further with a portfolio project

Create three prompts for a real task. Compare their outputs against your own checklist for accuracy, clarity and usefulness.

External course access and fees are set by their providers.