CompTIA Essentials Series empowers students with in-demand skills.
This new innovative skill development program is tailored for students and educators in today’s rapidly evolving digital landscape.
Built with direct input from Subject Matter Experts (SMEs), the series focuses on fostering critical, job-ready skills through a skill-centric approach and authentic, hands-on assessment.
What is the CompTIA Essentials Series?
- Flexible and efficient: With 4–8 hours of instruction per course, the Essentials Series easily layers into current curriculum and programs.
- AI-powered personalized learning: Leveraging the CertMaster Learn platform, students benefit from personalized learning paths and the power of AI to keep them motivated, challenged, and on track.
- Recognized by employers: CompTIA CompCerts give students portable, stackable achievements that clearly communicate ability to employers.
- Skills for industry: Courses teach soft skills, intro to AI, AI prompting, foundational business, project management, and more, ensuring students are ready for the workforce.
CompTIA Essentials Series
Equip your students with real-world skills and help them prepare for the workforce through these short, practical courses.
What's included:
- Skill-centric learning: Each Essentials course is structured around a set of universal, in-demand skills, ensuring that learning aligns closely with workforce needs.
- Authentic assessment: Courses conclude with a practical, problem-based assessment so students and educators can be sure the skills learned are ready to be applied directly in real-world situations.
- CompTIA CompCert: Upon passing the assessment, students earn a CompTIA Competency Certificate (CompCert)—validation of skill mastery, not just course completion.
Courses available:
- AI Essentials
- AI Prompting Essentials
- Soft Skills Essentials
- Business Essentials
- Cloud Essentials
- Project Management Essentials
- Data Analysis Essentials*
- AI for Sales Essentials*
- AI for Marketing Essentials*
*Coming soon
The Essentials Series is purpose-built for the classroom and other academic environments, giving educators a ready-made, up-to-date curriculum to supplement core courses, enrichment programs, and after-school offerings. By equipping students with validated skills, schools amplify learner employability and future readiness.
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AI Prompting Essentials
Discover how our course utilizes an AI coach to guide learners in creating authentic prompts.