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LESSON 8 OF 8 · Beginner capstone · ABOUT 15 MINUTES · BEGINNER FRIENDLY

Finish your first checked AI workflow

Bring together the pieces you have already made. You will prepare a fictional workshop pack, check it and describe exactly what you did. This is self-directed practice, not client work, a qualification or a promise of employment. Allow 15 minutes if your earlier notes are ready; starting from scratch will take longer.

You’ll make: A small practice pack you can explain: invitation, agenda, checks and reuse note.

STEP 01

Gather the source and your earlier work

Open your checked invitation, saved recipe and review checklist. Keep the original fictional fact sheet beside them. You can use a notebook or one ordinary document; no upload or special workspace is required.

Fictional fact sheet A: Oakfield Learning Group is holding the Back-to-Work Practice Hour on 18 May 2030, 10:00–11:00, in Oakfield Community Room. All times are venue-local. It is free and for adults returning to work after a break.

There are 12 places and 7 confirmed attendees. Bring a notebook; laptops are optional. To book, reply to the organiser by 15 May 2030. Step-free access is not yet confirmed. No information about refreshments is supplied. The goal is to practise one safe AI drafting task.

This is an invented practice event. Do not book it, send invitations or substitute real people’s details. The copyable prompt includes the full fact sheet.

Your finished pack needs an invitation, a clearly proposed agenda, a checking record and a brief reuse/fallback note. Keep it private for this exercise; preparing it is not permission to send or publish it.

STEP 02

Assemble a draft with a clear distinction

The prompt below asks for a factual invitation and a proposed agenda. The source establishes the event facts and its one-hour duration. It does not establish a detailed agenda, so suggested activities must be labelled as proposals.

Use it in a chat, or assemble your checked invitation with this manual agenda: 10:00–10:10 welcome; 10:10–10:25 write a prompt; 10:25–10:45 check an answer; 10:45–11:00 revise and reflect. Label the entire agenda “Proposed for practice”.

Try this prompt
Prepare a small fictional workshop practice pack from the fact sheet below. Part 1: a plain-English invitation of about 60-90 words with the event, date, time, place, free cost, booking deadline and what to bring. Part 2: a clearly labelled "Proposed agenda for practice" from 10:00 to 11:00, with four consecutive sections lasting 10, 15, 20 and 15 minutes. You may suggest suitable activities for this proposed agenda, but do not present them as confirmed event facts. Part 3: a six-item factual review checklist and a separate list of unknowns. Use only the supplied facts for factual claims; do not invent access, refreshments, speakers, qualifications or employment outcomes. Do not claim that I have already performed checks. Do not send, publish, book or schedule anything.

FICTIONAL PRACTICE FACT SHEET A
This is an invented exercise, not a real event or booking. Use these fixed dates, not today's date. All event times are local to the fictional venue.
Organiser: Oakfield Learning Group
Event: Back-to-Work Practice Hour
Date: 18 May 2030
Time: 10:00-11:00
Place: Oakfield Community Room
Audience: adults returning to work after a break
Cost: free
Capacity: 12 people
Confirmed attendees: 7 people
Bring: a notebook
Laptops: optional
Bookings: reply to the organiser by 15 May 2030
Step-free access: not yet confirmed
Refreshments: no information supplied
Goal: practise one safe AI drafting task

Paste into your approved AI tool. This site does not call an AI model.

STEP 03

Run the final factual and time checks

Confirm the invitation’s date, time, place, free cost, deadline and notebook/optional-laptop detail against the source. If remaining places are stated, check 12 − 7 = 5. Confirm that access and refreshments remain unknown, with no invented certificate, speaker or job promise.

For the proposed agenda, check every start and end time. The sample durations are 10 + 15 + 20 + 15 = 60 minutes, with no gaps or overlaps, running from 10:00 to 11:00. A proposed activity is a suggestion, not an established event fact.

STEP 04

Make the evidence specific and truthful

Add four short lines: “Source: fictional course fact sheet A”; “Tools used: [what I actually used, or manual examples]”; “Checks I performed: [specific checks]”; “Remaining unknowns: access and refreshments.” Record a real correction, or say that none was needed after checking. Keep the original and final version if available.

Add your saved recipe’s location and your automation status: not attempted, manual rehearsal, scheduled but unverified, or verified result. Choose the description that matches your evidence. Do not turn this practice into claims that you organised a real event or saved an unmeasured amount of time.

STEP 05

Explain the workflow in your own words

Finish this sentence: “I supplied a fictional brief, used AI to draft [or reviewed a supplied example], independently checked the important facts, and kept unknowns separate.” Explain one check without reading the AI answer. That is more useful evidence than saying you are an “AI expert”.

Your completion check: the draft matches the source; the agenda is labelled proposed and totals 60 minutes; you identified the two unknowns; the recipe can be reused without old facts; and your evidence accurately describes your route. If one is missing, fix that part before marking the practice complete.

For a next low-risk task, use approved public or fictional material to draft a checklist or simplify a short text. Carry the same review habit with you. You do not need to disclose why you took a career break to practise these skills.

PAUSE & CHECK

Does it hold up?

See the explanation

10 + 15 + 20 + 15 = 60 minutes, matching 10:00–11:00. Checking the total is not enough by itself: the individual times should also have no gaps or overlaps. Keep the agenda labelled proposed because the source does not confirm those activities.

ONLY AFTER YOU’VE DONE THE WORK

A truthful way to describe it

In self-directed practice using fictional data, I prepared a workshop draft, separated proposed activities from established facts, checked dates and arithmetic, preserved missing information and saved a reusable method. I state whether I used a live AI tool or worked from course examples.

Use this only if it accurately describes your completed practice. Adapt it to the tool and checks you actually used. It is not a certificate or a claim of professional experience.

Sources & editorial notes

Feature documentation checked 16 October 2026. The practice brief and teaching checks are original editorial exercises. Interfaces and account availability can change.

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