Turn dense notes, textbooks, and lecture slides into flashcards, summaries, diagrams, and simple visuals using free AI tools like ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini. A hands-on micro course for students and teachers who want to study smarter and teach clearer. No design or coding skills required, and you earn a free certificate.
Dense lecture slides, long PDF chapters, and notebooks full of scribbles are not a shortage of information, they are a shortage of usable study material. This free micro course teaches you to fix that with AI. In about three hours of hands-on lessons you will turn any pile of notes into flashcards, summaries, one-page cheat sheets, diagrams, mind maps, and simple visuals, using free tools you already have access to.
Built for university students, early-career learners, and teachers, the course assumes zero prior experience. You will learn a simple, repeatable prompt recipe and then apply it: generating clean flashcard decks you can import into Anki or Quizlet, compressing a whole chapter into a faithful summary, drawing flowcharts and timelines from text with Mermaid, mapping topics to reveal your blind spots, and building polished infographics in Canva where the labels are actually accurate. A full module ties it together into a repeatable study-pack workflow, and a dedicated lesson shows teachers how to create differentiated handouts, exit tickets, and answer keys in minutes.
Throughout, you will practice the habits that keep AI trustworthy, generating from your own source material and spot-checking every fact, so the tools deepen your learning instead of quietly teaching you errors. The course is completely free. Finish the lessons and pass the final exam and you earn a free certificate of completion to add to your LinkedIn profile or resume.
4 modules • 10 lessons
Finish every lesson and pass the final exam to earn this free, shareable certificate.
Certificate of Completion
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Michail Ouroumis
Founder, FreeAcademy.ai
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The free tiers of assistants such as ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini, plus Mermaid for diagrams. Everything works in a browser with no paid subscriptions.
No. Diagrams and visuals are generated from plain text descriptions. If you can describe what you want in a sentence, you can produce it.
No. Teachers get a dedicated lesson on handouts, visuals, and differentiation, and the same workflows help anyone who needs to explain ideas clearly at work.
As accurate as your checking. The course teaches you to generate materials from your own notes and verify them against the source, and a final lesson covers accuracy and ethics.
It is a micro course of about three hours, split into short lessons, so you can finish it in a weekend or spread it across a week.
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