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Perplexity
Use Perplexity as a cited answer engine: ask well, scope the sources, and check the citations before you trust the answer.
11 lessons~2 hrHands-on in every lesson
Try the real first lesson — free
Lesson 1 of Perplexityis free with no signup and no card. It's the actual interactive lesson, not a trailer.
Syllabus
What's inside
11 lessons · ~108 minutes total · hands-on in every lesson
- The Cited Answer8 min
- Asking Well10 min
- Scoping Sources9 min
- Research Mode, a Defensible Brief10 min
- Create Files and Apps, a Built Deliverable10 min
- Model Picker and Model Council10 min
- Projects, a Persistent Research Project10 min
- Files, Grounding Answers in Your Own Documents10 min
- Comet, the Assistant Inside the Browser10 min
- Catching a Wrong Citation9 min
- Capstone: Run a Real Research TaskCapstone12 min
Is it for you?
An honest fit check
This course is for you if…
- Your work involves research and you want answers with sources you can click and check.
- You want to know what Perplexity actually returns — and when it's a starting point rather than a final source.
- You want files, projects, and the model picker working for real research workflows.
It isn't for you if…
- You want a general chatbot course — Perplexity is an answer engine, and this course teaches it as one.
What you'll build
A real research task, cited
The capstone runs a genuine research question end to end — a defensible cited brief, grounded in scoped sources, with at least one citation checked the hard way.
Earn a verifiable certificate
Finish every lesson and your certificate is issued automatically, with a public verify link anyone — an employer, a client — can check without a login. It stays yours even if you cancel your subscription. How verification works
Written against the live tools it teaches and fact-checked with dated sources. Anything older than ~90 days is re-verified — so what you read matches what you see on screen.
Start Perplexity today
Lesson 1 is free. The full course — and every other course in the catalog — is one plan, and you see the exact price before any email or card.