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This is a corporate training package, not a skills workshop. If your job is to approve AI policies, it might tick a box. If your job is to build or implement anything, this is 23 hours too long.
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2.5/5 Last verified: August 31, 2026
School administrators with zero AI exposure who need a sanctioned, high-level overview.
Extremely slow pace for anyone with technical sense.
School administrators with zero AI exposure who need a sanctioned, high-level overview.
Anyone who can already write a decent prompt or wants to build things.
A client, a school district, paid for me to sit in on this. Twenty-four hours. My task was to see what their 'tech leads' would be learning about AI. The answer is: not much. The 'Prompt-a-thon' name is a bit of a joke. It’s more of a 'Prompt-and-watch-a-PowerPoint-a-thon'.
We spent the first day on 'AI Foundations'. This was a slideshow about what a large language model is, punctuated by pre-canned prompts about school lunch menus. The instructor was good, very patient. But we were writing prompts that a middle schooler could figure out in ten minutes. The goal seemed to be demystification to the point of sedation. No one was going to break anything, but no one was going to build anything either.
The real substance, if you can call it that, is about policy. 'Implementing AI at scale safely'. That translates to 'Here’s how to use Microsoft's approved tool in a way that generates zero lawsuits'. For a school principal, maybe that’s the whole job. For me, it was like attending a 3-day meeting about how to use a screwdriver, but we never got to build the bookshelf.
I get it. This isn't for me. It’s for the person who has to sign off on the tech, not the person who has to make it work. But 24 hours to learn that Copilot can help draft an email to parents? That’s not a workshop, that's a hostage situation.
Last verified: August 31, 2026. We re-check course details periodically — see our methodology. Pricing and availability can change; always confirm on the official site.
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