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Understanding and designing an AI agent: The basics
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Understanding and designing an AI agent: The basics

Learn to understand AI agents, their uses, how they work, and the essential steps to design a simple, useful, and secure first AI agent, without advanced technical knowledge.
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Understanding and designing an AI agent: The basics

Course requirements

No technical prerequisites are necessary. You just need to know how to use a computer or a smartphone, browse the internet, and have the desire to understand how AI can help you work better.

Who is this course for?

To beginners who want to understand AI agents without learning to code.
To entrepreneurs, freelancers, and professionals who want to save time in their work.
To trainers, assistants, administrative and commercial managers who want to automate certain simple tasks.
To anyone who wants to design a first useful AI agent for a personal or professional need.

About This Course

AI agents are becoming increasingly present in both personal and professional worlds. However, many beginners still do not clearly understand what an AI agent is, how it works, what it is really used for, and how to create a first one simply.

This training helps you understand the fundamentals of AI agents without technical jargon. You will learn to differentiate between a chatbot, an AI assistant, and an AI agent, identify the right use cases, choose a suitable tool, and gradually design your first agent.

Through concrete examples adapted to the African context, you will discover how to use AI agents for customer service, administration, training, writing, document management, sales tracking, or personal organization.

By the end of the course, you will be able to define a need, build a design sheet, write clear instructions, test your agent, and adhere to essential rules of safety, privacy, and human oversight.

What Will You Learn?

Simply explain what an AI agent is.
Distinguish a chatbot, an AI assistant, and an AI agent.
Understand the essential elements that make up an AI agent.
Identify the right personal and professional use cases.
Choose a suitable tool to create an AI agent.
Design a simple sheet for your first AI agent.
Test, secure, and improve an AI agent before using it.
Curriculum Overview

This course includes 8 modules, 25 lessons, 1 quizzes, and 1h 12min hours of video.

Chapter 1 - Understanding AI agents without jargon
3 Sessions | 9m 00s
1.1 What is an AI agent?
3m 00s

Simply understand what an AI agent is and why it can be useful in personal or professional life.

Reading Time 3 Minutes
Attachments 0
1.2 Chatbot, AI assistant, and AI agent: what are the differences?
3m 00s

Know how to distinguish a chatbot, an AI assistant, and an AI agent in order to use the correct terms.

Reading Time 3 Minutes
Attachments 0
1.3 Why are AI agents useful today?
3m 00s

Understanding the interest of AI agents to save time, organize work, and improve certain tasks.

Reading Time 3 Minutes
Attachments 0
Chapter 2 - Understanding how an AI agent works
3 Sessions | 9m 00s
2.1 The essential elements of an AI agent
3m 00s

Identify the main elements that allow an AI agent to function properly.

Reading Time 3 Minutes
Attachments 0
2.2 How does an agent handle a request?
3m 00s

Understand the simple path followed by an AI agent when a user makes a request to it.

Reading Time 3 Minutes
Attachments 0
2.3 What an AI agent does not know how to do well
3m 00s

Understand the practical limits of an AI agent and know why it is important to verify its answers.

Reading Time 3 Minutes
Attachments 0
Chapter 3 - Find the right use cases
3 Sessions | 9m 00s
3.1 Use case in personal life
3m 00s

Identify personal situations where an AI agent can help to better organize and save time.

Reading Time 3 Minutes
Attachments 0
3.2 Use case in the professional world
3m 00s

Recognize the main professional uses of an AI agent in an organization.

Reading Time 3 Minutes
Attachments 0
3.3 How to know if a task deserves an AI agent?
3m 00s

Learning to choose the right tasks to assign to an AI agent.

Reading Time 3 Minutes
Attachments 0
Chapter 4 - Choose the right tool to create an AI agent
4 Sessions | 12m 00s
4.1 Simple tools to get started
3m 00s

Discover simple tools to create a first AI agent without advanced technical knowledge.

Reading Time 3 Minutes
Attachments 0
4.2 No-code tools for automation
3m 00s

Understanding the interest of no-code tools to connect an AI agent to applications and automate certain tasks.

Reading Time 3 Minutes
Attachments 0
4.3 Professional tools for business
3m 00s

Discover the more structured tools used to create AI agents in a professional setting.

Reading Time 3 Minutes
Attachments 0
4.4 How to choose your tool according to your needs?
3m 00s

Know how to choose an AI agent creation tool according to the need, the technical level, and the context of use.

Reading Time 3 Minutes
Attachments 0
Chapter 5 - Designing your first simple AI agent
5 Sessions | 15m 00s
5.1 Define the problem to be solved
3m 00s

A good agent starts with a good problem

Reading Time 3 Minutes
Attachments 0
5.2 Build the agent design document
3m 00s

Knowing how to fill out a simple form to structure your AI agent before creating it in a tool.

Reading Time 3 Minutes
Attachments 0
5.3 Write the basic instructions for the agent
3m 00s

Learn to write clear instructions to guide the behavior of an AI agent.

Reading Time 3 Minutes
Attachments 0
5.4 Prepare the useful documents and information
3m 00s

Know how to prepare the right information to provide to an AI agent and avoid unnecessary or sensitive data.

Reading Time 3 Minutes
Attachments 0
5.5 Test the agent with real cases
3m 00s

Learn to test an AI agent with realistic scenarios before using it seriously.

Reading Time 3 Minutes
Attachments 0
Chapter 6 - Security, quality, and continuous improvement
5 Sessions | 15m 00s
6.1 Confidentiality and sensitive data
3m 00s

Understand which information to avoid sharing with an AI agent and how to protect sensitive data.

Reading Time 3 Minutes
Attachments 0
6.2 Keep human control
3m 00s

Knowing in what situations a human must verify, validate, or correct the action of an AI agent.

Reading Time 3 Minutes
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6.3 Measuring the usefulness of its AI agent
3m 00s

Knowing how to assess whether an AI agent truly adds value.

Reading Time 3 Minutes
Attachments 0
6.4 Common mistakes to avoid
3m 00s

Identify the most common mistakes when designing a simple AI agent and know how to fix them.

Reading Time 3 Minutes
Attachments 0
6.5 Final action plan to create your first agent
3m 00s

Knowing how to follow a simple method to create your first end-to-end AI agent.

Reading Time 3 Minutes
Attachments 0
Chapter 7 - Quiz & Assignment
1 Sessions
7.1 Final course quiz Quiz

Test your knowledge by answering the questions in this quiz. To pass this quiz, you must have completed all the lessons in this course.

Questions 5
Duration 5 Minutes
Passing Grade 12/20
Total Grade 20
Attempts 0
Chapter 8 - Conclusion
1 Sessions | 3m 00s
8.1 Closing word
3m 00s

Trainer's closing words

Reading Time 3 Minutes
Attachments 0
Quiz Certificates
1 Sessions
Course Certificate
Course Certificate
If you pass all the lessons in this course, you will receive this certificate.
Type Course Certificate
Formateur passionné et multidisciplinaire, j’accompagne les apprenants dans l’acquisition de compétences professionnelles concrètes dans le digital, l’audiovisuel, la 3D et le développement. Avec plus de 10 ans d’expérience en ingénierie informatique, création numérique, production audiovisuelle et développement d’applications web & jeux vidéo, je conçois des formations pratiques centrées sur la maîtrise des outils et l’évolution des métiers d’aujourd’hui. Mon objectif : rendre chaque apprenant autonome, créatif et capable de transformer ses idées en projets réels, que ce soit dans la tech, la 3D, le design, la vidéo ou l’entrepreneuriat digital.

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This Course Includes

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Course Specifications

Duration
1h 12min
Maximum Capacity
Unlimited
Difficulty Level
Beginner
Chapters
8
Text Lesson
24
Quiz
1
Updated Date
12 Jul 2026

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