Seven courses. Pick the one that matches your week one.

Who this is for. You have a smartphone. You have heard the words “ChatGPT” or “Gemini” and have either never opened them or opened them once, typed hello, and closed the app. You want someone on the call while you send the first real message, read the reply, and save it so it does not vanish. You do not want a lecture about how the models are built.

• Week 1: the phone in your hand, the first message, reading the reply aloud.
• Week 2: saving a chat, starting a new one, finding last week’s thread.
• Week 3: asking for a shorter answer and noticing a guess.
• Week 4: a small job from home, done from a cold start.

By the end you can open an assistant, ask a short question, save the thread, and decide whether the answer is usable.

Starts on the first Tuesday of the month; evening and morning groups.

Who this is for. You already get a reply, but it is long, vague, or slightly wrong in a way you cannot put your finger on. You want to ask again, ask for a shorter version, ask it to use plain words, and check a fact before you act on it. This course assumes you can open the app and send a message. If that is still the hard part, take First Steps first.

• Week 1: the same topic asked vaguely and then asked well.
• Week 2: length, tone, audience, and format as constraints you name out loud.
• Week 3: follow-ups, “show your working”, catching a wrong detail.
• Week 4: one personal task rewritten three ways and judged for use.

By the end you can turn a foggy request into a short brief and reject an answer that does not match it.

Starts on the first Tuesday of the month; evening and morning groups.

Who this is for. You have envelopes of prints, an old phone full of unmarked pictures, or a sibling who has asked you to “sort Mum’s photos”. You want captions, dates and a simple folder plan. You may also want a careful restoration of a damaged print. We treat the original file as the record and any repaired version as a copy. This is not a course in graphic design.

• Week 1: describing a photograph so a stranger, or an assistant, can tell who is in it.
• Week 2: captions, dates, places, and a folder plan that still makes sense next year.
• Week 3: what to ask a restoration tool for, and what to refuse.
• Week 4: a short family note built from three pictures you bring.

By the end you can label a set of pictures, keep the originals, and write a short note that a relative can follow.

Starts on the first Tuesday of the month; evening and morning groups.

Who this is for. You have had a call that sounded like family, a video that looked like a grandchild, or an email that used the colours of a bank you actually use. You want a small set of checks you can run before you tap, transfer, or stay on the line. We look at cloned voices, staged video calls, and messages that pretend to be from a bank or a public agency. We do not claim you will never be targeted.

• Week 1: how a cloned voice is made, and why a phone call is no longer proof.
• Week 2: fake video calls and the “I am in trouble” script used on families.
• Week 3: bank and government emails, and the check before you tap.
• Week 4: a household rule card you take home and pin up if you wish.

By the end you can pause a suspicious call, run a second-channel check, and explain the rule to someone else in the house.

Starts on the first Tuesday of the month; evening and morning groups.

Who this is for. You need a polite email, a short speech for a wedding or a funeral, or a plain-words reading of a letter that arrived in dense type. You are willing to check every sentence the assistant drafts, because the facts have to be yours. Bring a real document in week four if you have one you are allowed to share. We do not write legal advice or fill government forms on your behalf.

• Week 1: a polite email from a list of bullet points you already know.
• Week 2: a short speech or toast, timed so it fits the slot.
• Week 3: a dense letter explained in ordinary sentences.
• Week 4: your own document, drafted and then checked line by line.

By the end you can turn notes into a draft and then strip anything the assistant invented.

Starts on the first Tuesday of the month; evening and morning groups.

Who this is for. Typing is tiring, or the default type on the phone is too small, or both. You want to speak a message, hear a reply read aloud, and keep the type large enough to reread later. We set this up on the phone or tablet you already have. The assistant is the same one used in First Steps. The difference is the way you get words in and out.

• Week 1: dictation on the phone, including punctuation by voice.
• Week 2: larger type, stronger contrast, spoken replies.
• Week 3: a short hands-free task, such as a list or a message.
• Week 4: your own setup saved so it is still there the following week.

By the end you can dictate a request, hear the answer, and keep the screen readable without borrowing someone else’s fingers.

Starts on the first Tuesday of the month; evening and morning groups.

Who this is for. You are the person others already ask. A grandchild wants you to “just try this”. A neighbour wants the same demonstration you were given. You need a calm way to explain what an assistant can do, what it should never be given (passwords, full identity numbers, other people’s private letters), and how to set a basic privacy control on a shared phone. First Steps or Ask Better Questions is a useful base, but it is not a hard rule.

• Week 1: what to say when someone asks you to “just try” an assistant.
• Week 2: privacy on a shared phone, and what a service may keep.
• Week 3: what is safe to paste and what is never safe.
• Week 4: a twenty-minute demonstration you can run for one other person.

By the end you can give a short demo, name three things that must not be pasted, and set a basic privacy control.

Starts on the first Tuesday of the month; evening and morning groups.