AI and LLMs Without the Mystery
Understand how large language models actually work and put them to work in your everyday role.
Get Free Access →This beginner-friendly course helps you move past one-shot prompting and learn to hold genuinely useful conversations with AI — asking it to interview you, weigh options, challenge your thinking, and improve your work alongside you. Through workplace examples and guided activities, you apply large language models to writing, research, and day-to-day administration. It is for professionals who want practical, responsible AI skills without needing a technical background.
Walk out able to actually help.
You grasp what an LLM actually does, how context shapes its answers, and where it can be wrong.
You use the BRAVE conversation loop to brief AI well and collaborate rather than issue one-off prompts.
You bring AI to real tasks such as emails, reports, summaries, research, and decision support.
You judge what is safe to share, verify before you rely, and understand your responsibilities at work.
Built around the moment it matters.
Welcome
Orientation to the course message, entry requirements, learning outcomes, timing, and the recurring features you will meet throughout.
Module 1 — AI and LLMs Without the Mystery
The AI landscape, what an LLM really does, how context and attention shape answers, and why capable does not mean infallible.
Module 2 — Better Conversations, Better Work
Moving from one-shot prompts to the BRAVE conversation loop, giving AI a useful brief, and letting it interview you to collaborate.
Module 3 — Everyday Professional Productivity
Choosing the task before the tool, co-authoring documents, and summarising, extracting, and transforming information for meetings and service.
Module 4 — Research, Analysis, and Decisions
Using AI to support research without treating it as evidence, working with documents and data, framing problems, and verifying before you rely.
Module 5 — From Individual Tasks to Better Workflows
Mapping your work before improving it, making good conversations reusable, and understanding where automation and agents fit.
Module 6 — Responsible AI Use at Work
The STOP check before you paste, the main risk families, why risk is use-specific, and responsibility at every level.
Module 7 — Becoming an AI-Enabled Professional
What real progress looks like, completing your Personal AI Workplace Playbook, and building a 30-day adoption plan.
Mandatory Final Examination
A final assessment with instructions and an answer key with rationales to confirm your understanding of the course.
Appendix A — Personal AI Workplace Playbook Template
A structured template covering your role, use cases, conversation loop, interview workflow, and your STOP and VERIFY checks.
Appendix B — Reusable Conversation Cards
Eight ready-to-use cards for briefing, interviewing, teaching, co-authoring, extracting, challenging, planning research, and structuring decisions.
Appendix C — Glossary
A reference glossary of the key terms used across the course.
Appendix D — Media and Learning-Asset Plan
A reference overview of the media and learning assets that support the course.
Appendix E — Source Register
A register of sources, with a source-tagging note for the course owner.
Appendix F — Course-Builder Production Notes
Production reference notes covering page patterns, interactive treatments, quality assurance, and suggested landing-page copy.
Where this learning adds value.
Build practical capability you can apply immediately, and evidence of structured professional development.
Every programme sits on a pathway, so you can progress from foundation into the specialist streams your role or sector demands.
Contractors and suppliers are routinely asked to evidence trained personnel — structured training supports that case where the course is relevant.
Digital credentials can be independently verified online by employers and credential reviewers. Recognition requirements may vary by employer, jurisdiction, profession and certification type.
A certificate that carries weight.
Apexis Certificate of Completion
Issued by Apexis Risk Innovation Group on successful completion of the programme requirements. Where digital verification is enabled, employers can verify the credential record online.
Apexis Risk Innovation Group is an authorised TEEX Cooperative Learning Center. Selected Texas A&M Engineering Extension Service (TEEX) programmes delivered through Apexis are clearly identified by course name and code.
Who you learn it from matters.
Selected TEEX programmes are available through Apexis Risk Innovation Group, an authorised Texas A&M Engineering Extension Service (TEEX) Cooperative Learning Center, and are clearly identified by course name and code.
Programmes are designed by people who have done the job, around real workplace needs rather than textbook abstractions.
Content is contextualised to the operating environments our clients actually work in — energy, industrial, public safety and emergency response.
Every programme identifies who issues the credential, what it represents and how it can be verified.
Ready when you are.
- Self-paced online modules
- Workplace examples and guided activities
- Personal AI Workplace Playbook template
- Reusable conversation cards and glossary
- Mandatory final examination
- Certificate of completion