Prompt Engineering

Use Cases · beginner

AI Literacy Topic 1, Track 1: learn to steer AI with clear, well-structured prompts. 24 quizzes, 7 questions each — every question includes a short article and a workplace scenario to read first.

Quizzes in this topic

What a Prompt Is: The Instructions That Steer AI
Say It Straight: Clear Prompts, Better AI Output
Name the Task: The Verb That Drives the Answer
Giving Context: From Generic Answers to Useful Ones
Format Instructions: Telling the AI the Shape of Your Answer
Setting Constraints: Boundaries That Keep AI Output Focused
Specificity Beats Vagueness: Closing the Gap Between What You Want and What You Get
One-Shot Instructions: Prompts That Work the First Time
Role Prompting: Give the AI a Job Title
Few-Shot Prompting: Teach the AI by Showing Examples
Asking AI to Think Step by Step
Iterative Refinement: The Conversation, Not the Command
Chaining Prompts: Breaking Big Tasks into Smaller Steps
Removing Ambiguity: Making Every Reference Explicit
Negative Instructions: Telling the AI What NOT to Do
Chain-of-Thought Prompting: Make AI Show Its Work
Controlling Depth and Length: Sizing AI Output to the Decision
Prompting for the Right Audience: Executives, Technicians, Customers, and Kids
Reusable Prompt Templates and Patterns for Recurring Work
Diagnosing Weak Answers: Reading Output Like a Diagnostic
A/B Testing Your Prompts: Systematic Prompt Improvement
Multi-Step Prompt Workflows: Chaining Prompts Into a Process
Structured Data Prompts: JSON, Tables & Schemas That Import Cleanly
Your Prompt Library: Prompting as a Professional Skill

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