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A certificate that says what you can do.
Most online courses issue a certificate for finishing the videos. This one is issued against a published rubric, with the evidence attached, so the person you send it to can check it rather than take your word for it.
What gets issued
Thirteen things, not one.
Value banks along the way rather than only at the end, so pausing after level two still leaves you holding something.
A badge for every module
Eight of them, one per module, from The Disciple to The AI Ninja. Each is released by the mastery check at the end of that module, so a badge means the module was passed, not opened.
A certificate for every level
Five of them. A level certificate needs every module in that level passed and the level artifact graded against the rubric. It is the harder of the two to earn, and the one worth sending.
- Level 1Building the IntuitionArtifact: your first Python program
- Level 2Building Confidence with AIArtifact: your first complete model
- Level 3Refined IntelligenceArtifact: a neural network you wrote
- Level 4Precision & EfficiencyArtifact: a tuned, measured model
- Level 5AI MasteryCapstone: a production model in Keras and TensorFlow
How it is earned
Three checks, in order.
The same three points apply whether you are in a classroom or working through it alone.
- 01Before you start · 30 min
Foundations Challenge
A short diagnostic of what you already know about AI and software. It sets your baseline, which is what later progress is measured against, and points you at the right starting level.
- 02End of every module
Mastery check
Concept questions plus a small piece of working code. Marked automatically, and explained line by line when you get one wrong. Passing it releases that module’s badge.
- 03End of every level
Rubric-graded artifact
Something you built, graded against the published rubric for that level rather than a private opinion. This is the step that turns badges into a certificate.
Verification
What the person receiving it actually sees.
A certificate with nothing behind it is a picture. Each one issued here carries its evidence, so an admissions officer or a hiring manager can check it without contacting us.
The rubric it was graded against
Published, not internal. The same rubric applies to every learner at that level.
The mastery checks behind it
Which modules were passed, and when. A certificate cannot exist without them.
The artifact that was graded
The thing you actually built for that level, not a description of it.
It stays yours
Pausing does not cost you what you earned.
Every badge and certificate you have already been issued is yours to keep. Stop for six months and you rejoin at the level you reached, not at the beginning.
Most online courses are not finished. That is a format problem more than a willpower problem, and this is built around it.
For schools
The same credentials are issued to students in a classroom cohort, and the same rubrics apply. What a school adds is the reporting around them.
Start at level one.
The first credential is two modules away. Read a sample lesson first if you would rather judge the teaching before committing.