Real AI skills, for credit.
Offer WAC's AI Ready course as a 2, 3 or 4-credit course, mapped to UGC and the National Credit Framework, with US and ECTS equivalents. Every student learns ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini hands-on, builds a portfolio of real work, and gets every update to the course for life.
Free for individuals. Credit-ready for universities.
Individual edition
Free and self-paced, with no academic credit. Anyone can take the full course (10 weeks, plus an optional 3-week Agentic AI track) or a shorter learning path, and earn the optional WAC certificate.
University edition
The same lessons, organised into units for a 2, 3 or 4-credit course, with a syllabus, course outcomes, a 15-week teaching plan, live labs, internal assessment and a model end-semester paper. Credit is awarded by your university.
2, 3 or 4 credits: what changes.
All three versions use the same lessons, labs, ebooks, slide decks and lecture scripts. More credits add depth: building, agents, the Agentic AI track and a full capstone.
| Feature | AI Ready Essentials2 credits | AI Ready Core3 credits | AI Ready Complete4 credits |
|---|---|---|---|
| Credits | 2 | 3 | 4 |
| L-T-P (hours a week) | 1-0-2 | 2-0-2 | 2-0-4 |
| Notional learning hours | about 60 | about 92 | about 118 |
| Teaching hours (lectures, live labs, reviews, viva) | about 20 | about 25 | about 33 |
| Duration | 1 semester (15 weeks), or an 8-week intensive | 1 semester (15 weeks) | 1 semester (15 weeks) |
| Suggested course type | Skill Enhancement or Value-Added Course | Multidisciplinary or open elective | Discipline elective or minor |
| Modules | Modules 0–4 and the Toolkit | Modules 0–8, the Toolkit and the Capstone | All 15 modules, including 6A–6D |
| Lessons | 37 | 68 | 84 |
| Hands-on labs | 6 | 11 | 16 |
| Foundations, prompting and the AI toolkit (ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Research, study and everyday work with AI | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Automation, app building and inbox automation | – | ✓ | ✓ |
| Agentic AI: using and supervising agents | – | ✓ | ✓ |
| Agentic AI track: harness engineering, loop engineering, agent skills, evals | – | – | ✓ |
| Responsible AI: privacy, bias, copyright, deepfakes | Basics (Module 0) | Full module | Full module |
| AI in your field, careers and freelancing | – | ✓ | ✓ |
| Project | Mini-project | Capstone project | Capstone project, demo and viva |
| Live lab sessions | about 12 hours | about 12 hours | about 15 hours |
| Course outcomes | 3 | 6 | 7 |
| Assessment | 60 internal : 40 end-semester | 60 internal : 40 end-semester | 60 internal : 40 end-semester |
| Faculty materials | Syllabus, slides, lecture scripts, ebooks, assessment pack | Syllabus, slides, lecture scripts, ebooks, assessment pack | Syllabus, slides, lecture scripts, ebooks, assessment pack |
| Best for | A first AI course for every student | A full elective with real projects | Students who will design and test AI agents |
| Optional WAC certificate | Yes (USD 5, with WAC membership) | Yes (USD 5, with WAC membership) | Yes (USD 5, with WAC membership) |
Hours are estimates of typical learner time, built from the lecture scripts and each lab's "Time needed". Download this table (PDF)
Pick the version that fits your programme.
Each syllabus has five units, course outcomes with Bloom levels, a 15-week teaching plan, assessment scheme and resources, ready for your board of studies.
AI Ready Essentials
A first AI course for every student, in any discipline. Foundations, prompting, the AI toolkit, research and everyday work, plus a mini-project.
Syllabus (PDF)AI Ready Core
A full elective. Everything in Essentials, plus automation and app building, agentic AI, responsible AI, careers and a capstone project.
Syllabus (PDF)AI Ready Complete
The whole course, including the Agentic AI track: harness engineering, loop engineering, agent skills and evals, with a capstone demo and viva.
Syllabus (PDF)Everything you need to run it for credit.
Syllabus and credit mapping
Unit-wise syllabus, course outcomes, L-T-P, notional hours and a 15-week plan for each version.
Teaching materials
A slide deck and lecture script for every lesson, module ebooks with sources, and recorded lectures.
Hands-on labs
Up to 16 guided labs on free tools, each with a rubric, and a capstone with real users.
Assessment pack
A question bank with answers, a model end-semester paper, the lab rubric and a CO–PO matrix template, for faculty only.
Live labs and faculty support
Live lab sessions run by WAC faculty or your own faculty, with facilitator notes.
Always current
When AI changes, lessons and labs are updated, free, for every cohort. Your course never ages.
Progress dashboards
See each cohort's progress, quiz scores and portfolio submissions.
Optional WAC certificate
Students can also earn the WAC Certificate of Skills (USD 5, with one year of WAC membership).
Mapped to UGC, US and ECTS.
| System | One credit | 4 credits |
|---|---|---|
| UGC / NCrF (India) | 30 notional hours; 15 teaching hours (theory) or 30 (practical) a semester | 120 hours |
| United States | 1 hour of instruction + 2 hours of out-of-class work a week, about 15 weeks | about 180 hours |
| Europe (ECTS) | 25 to 30 hours of workload | 100 to 120 hours |
| United Kingdom | 10 notional hours | 40 hours |
Full credit mapping (PDF), with hours per module and a US 4-credit extension.
From decision to first class in four steps.
- Choose a version2, 3 or 4 credits, and the semester to run it in.
- Approve the syllabusTake the WAC syllabus to your board of studies; adapt the course code, type and assessment split to your rules.
- Set up your cohortWAC creates a dedicated cohort, onboards your faculty and schedules live labs.
- Teach, assess, award creditStudents learn and build; faculty assess with the rubric and question bank; the university awards the credit.
Everything for your board of studies.
- 2, 3 and 4-credit comparisonPDF · 1 page
- Credit mapping for universitiesPDF · 7 pages
- Essentials · 2-credit syllabusPDF · 6 pages
- Core · 3-credit syllabusPDF · 6 pages
- Complete · 4-credit syllabusPDF · 6 pages
Assessment packs (question bank with answers and a model paper) are shared with faculty on request.
Questions universities ask us.
Who awards the credit?
Your university. WAC provides the course, materials and support; the university approves the syllabus, assesses students and awards the credit under its own regulations.
Can we change the syllabus or assessment?
Yes. Course code, course type, unit order and the internal and end-semester split can follow your rules. Many universities use 60:40 or 50:50.
Can our own faculty teach it?
Yes. Every lesson has a slide deck and a lecture script, and WAC onboards your faculty. Or WAC faculty can run the live labs.
Do students need paid AI tools?
No. Every lab has a free option, and each lab offers alternatives in case a tool is unavailable in your country.
Online, offline or blended?
All three. Video lectures, ebooks and labs are self-paced; live labs can run in a classroom or online. The hours are the same.
What happens when AI changes?
AI Ready is a living course. WAC updates lessons, labs and screenshots whenever a tool or best practice changes, for every cohort, at no extra cost.
Make every student AI ready, for credit.
Bring AI Ready to your university
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