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Short lessons per course, written for the work rather than for a syllabus.
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Twelve scenario questions. Pass at ten. Three attempts a day. The bar is the point.
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The curriculum
Take these first: they apply to every kind of task.
4This is the course every worker should take first. It walks the full path of a task, from the moment a client posts it to the moment your payout is released, and explains the rules that hold the platform together: fixed payouts, first-come claiming, the wall between you and the client, and what QC and your record mean for the work you see. Finish it and you will know exactly what a claim commits you to.
7 lessons · ~31 min · exam + certificate
Writing is part of every deliverable you send, and clear writing gets approved faster. This course teaches plain professional English for written work and delivery notes: short sentences, a neutral confident tone, the four-part delivery note, the grammar slips North American readers notice first, and proofreading passes that catch real errors. You finish able to write deliverables that pass QC without a second read.
6 lessons · ~33 min · exam + certificate
Most overnight tasks pass through a spreadsheet at some point: a list to clean, two exports to reconcile, a CSV that arrives broken. This course teaches the tool as we actually use it, in Google Sheets and LibreOffice Calc, both free. You finish able to protect the original file, find problems you cannot see, match data across sheets, survive the CSV traps, and deliver work an operator can approve on the first pass.
7 lessons · ~34 min · exam + certificateRead the course →
Skill gets you your first task. Habits get you the next hundred. This course covers the six practices that keep a worker trusted and durable here: honest deadlines, clean files, strict confidentiality, a secure account, sustainable night work, and a record that compounds. Finish it and you will know exactly what builds trust on this platform, and what quietly destroys it.
6 lessons · ~20 min · exam + certificate
The jobs a virtual assistant is hired to do, anywhere, not only here.
11Running someone else's inbox is the most common virtual assistant job and the one clients trust least easily. This course gives you a triage system that survives three hundred messages a day, the free Gmail setup that does the sorting for you, clear rules on what to send and what to escalate, and a handover note that shows exactly what happened while your client slept.
9 lessons · ~69 min · exam + certificateRead the course →
This course teaches you to own someone's calendar across time zones: converting and writing times that cannot be misread, catching daylight saving before it moves a meeting, configuring free booking pages, protecting the day with buffers and focus blocks, auditing recurring meetings that stopped earning their hour, and rescheduling without damage. You finish able to run a confirmation habit that keeps a schedule correct while your client sleeps.
9 lessons · ~68 min · exam + certificateRead the course →
Front-line support is judgement under time pressure: sorting a queue by real impact, writing a first reply that tells the truth about what you know, and staying calm without giving away things the business never agreed to. This course takes you from a cold queue to a clean escalation, a published help article, and numbers about your own work that mean what they say.
9 lessons · ~64 min · exam + certificateRead the course →
A CRM is only worth what its worst record is worth. This course teaches you to model contacts, companies, deals and activities correctly, move a deal only on evidence, merge duplicates without losing history, and log work so the pipeline reflects reality. You finish able to build a weekly pipeline report, run a clean-up sweep on a stale database, and hold the standard that keeps it clean.
8 lessons · ~58 min · exam + certificateRead the course →
Online stores run on unglamorous back-office work: listings that stay consistent, stock counts that match reality, orders that hit exceptions, returns, refunds and reviews. This course teaches those shapes on any platform, so you can open an unfamiliar store admin and know what to check first. You finish able to run a week of store operations and prove in writing what you did.
9 lessons · ~59 min · exam + certificateRead the course →
This course covers the operational half of social media: the content calendar, batching, adapting one idea across platforms, captions and hooks, hashtags and tagging, free scheduling, the inbox, and the monthly report. You finish able to run a client's accounts week after week without drama, defuse a public complaint, and hand anything sensitive to the client before you speak for the brand.
9 lessons · ~66 min · exam + certificateRead the course →
Coordination is the work of keeping other people's work moving: turning a goal into owned tasks with real dates, running a board that reflects reality, and telling a busy person the truth in ten seconds. This course covers dependencies, chasing, meeting notes, decision logs, risk, escalation, and the weekly rhythm that keeps a project honest.
9 lessons · ~53 min · exam + certificateRead the course →
You will learn to build a presentation from someone else's raw material: finding the argument first, writing headlines that state the point, turning paragraphs into diagrams, choosing charts that do not mislead, and holding forty slides to one consistent system. We cover image licensing, speaker notes, exporting for screen and print, and the pre-send check. Free tools throughout, including Google Slides, Canva free and LibreOffice Impress.
9 lessons · ~71 min · exam + certificateRead the course →
You will learn the small set of decisions that separate clean work from work that looks broken: hierarchy, alignment, contrast, spacing, type, colour, images and exports. You will learn to work inside someone else's brand without changing it, to license images properly, and to build a fast, free Canva workflow. By the end you can produce a layout, name the reason behind every choice, and hand it over cleanly.
9 lessons · ~60 min · exam + certificateRead the course →
This course covers the work clients actually hire you for: finding what people search for, building pages that answer it, formatting and publishing them cleanly, and checking the result. You will run keyword research and on-page checks with free tools only, ship through a CMS without breaking anything, and read Search Console without overclaiming. It also draws the line you never cross to make a page rank.
9 lessons · ~60 min · exam + certificateRead the course →
You will learn the bookkeeping work you are actually asked to do: capturing receipts, categorising expenses consistently, building and sending invoices, chasing payment politely, matching money received to open invoices, and reconciling a month against the bank statement. You will also learn the line you do not cross, because a qualified accountant advises and files while you prepare and organise. Nothing here is accounting or tax advice.
9 lessons · ~65 min · exam + certificateRead the course →
Using the tools to a professional standard, and knowing exactly where client data may not go.
6AI can genuinely speed up drafting, summarising, reformatting and first-pass formulas, and it can also invent facts, leak client data and cost you a client in a single delivery. This course teaches where the line sits, how to verify what a model produces, what never goes into a third-party tool, and how to prompt, check and disclose like a professional. Everything you deliver stays yours.
8 lessons · ~58 min · exam + certificateRead the course →
Checking one row proves that one row is correct. It proves nothing about the four hundred and ninety-nine behind it. This course teaches the measurement that does prove something: a rubric written before you look, a random sample of fixed size, hand-scoring that records disagreements, and a threshold that decides whether the run ships. You finish able to state your error rate and defend it.
8 lessons · ~66 min · exam + certificateRead the course →
More tools now do things instead of describing them: they click, send, rename and overwrite. This course teaches the discipline that keeps an acting tool from costing you a night of work: write scope, dry runs, checkpoints, action logs, a limited first run, and a recovery plan written in advance. Finish it and you will never hand a tool the whole file again.
8 lessons · ~61 min · exam + certificateRead the course →
Most people ask a model what it knows, then spend an hour proving the answer wrong. Grounding is the alternative: you supply the text, and the model is allowed to answer only from it. This course teaches how to hand over a corpus, demand a locator on every extracted fact, spot the lines that drifted outside it, and sample the result. Verification becomes a spot check, not a redo.
8 lessons · ~67 min · exam + certificateRead the course →
You wrote a prompt on Tuesday, it produced something usable, and on Thursday the same prompt produced mush. This course teaches the tier above basic prompting: examples instead of adjectives, a fixed output shape, long tasks broken into checked steps, constraints an operator could verify, and a personal prompt library you version. By the end a good prompt stops being a lucky night and becomes a tool you own.
8 lessons · ~62 min · exam + certificateRead the course →
Most workers guess at the AI rule, and the guess is usually either too loose or too fearful. This course draws the real map: the three lanes where these tools are open to you, the one thing that never moves, and how to get help without ever sending a client's data anywhere. You will finish knowing exactly what you are allowed to do, and able to prove it.
8 lessons · ~61 min · exam + certificateRead the course →
Getting hired, getting paid, and lasting in this work.
5This course teaches you how to find and win virtual assistant work outside Endvera. You will choose a focus, write a profile and application that get read, set a rate you can defend, handle interviews and test tasks, and follow up without becoming a nuisance. Every method here is plain and repeatable. There are no hacks.
8 lessons · ~63 min · exam + certificateRead the course →
Most of your best work belongs to someone else and can never be shown. This course teaches you to prove your skill anyway: synthetic samples that demonstrate the same ability, case studies written without names, a one-page portfolio, certificates and testimonials used honestly, and a work log that becomes your evidence later. You finish with proof you can send tomorrow.
9 lessons · ~61 min · exam + certificateRead the course →
The money side of freelancing is a second job nobody trains you for: payments that arrive smaller than agreed, records nobody asks for until they matter, and rates that quietly lose you money. This course teaches the concepts and the questions, not the rules of your country, so you can compare payment methods honestly, keep records from day one, set aside on irregular income, and price your time above your own floor.
9 lessons · ~55 min · exam + certificateRead the course →
Job scams are not random. They come in a handful of shapes that repeat, and every one of them can be spotted before you lose money, time or your identity. This course teaches those shapes, the tells they share, the five-minute check that catches most of them, and exactly what to do in the hour after you realize you were caught.
8 lessons · ~45 min · exam + certificateRead the course →
Working the client's night is an occupational skill, and it can be done well or badly. This course covers the practical craft of it: anchoring sleep, using light and caffeine deliberately, eating and moving on an inverted clock, building a workstation that does not injure you, protecting your family time, and recognising burnout early enough to act. It is not medical advice, and we say plainly where a doctor belongs.
9 lessons · ~63 min · exam + certificateRead the course →
Each teaches the exact standard that kind of delivery is judged against.
8Data cleanup tasks are judged on one standard: every source row accounted for and the delivered file matching the requested shape. This course teaches the decisions above the mechanics: when differing rows are the same person, which record survives a merge, when to state an assumption instead of guessing, and how two overlapping exports become one defensible file. You finish able to deliver work an operator can verify in minutes.
6 lessons · ~29 min · exam + certificate
Data entry and transcription pay for one skill above all: moving information without changing it. This course teaches the judgement layer above the method: what normal accuracy means on messy sources, when to flag instead of guess, how to read a brief for verbatim versus clean-read, and how to check your own work before QC does. You finish able to deliver work the operator can defend and your record can build on.
6 lessons · ~26 min · exam + certificate
List building tasks are judged on one standard: every record matches the stated criteria, and every field is either filled or honestly marked unavailable after a real search. This course teaches the judgement behind that standard. You learn to read criteria as hard filters, search past page one, decide whether a listing is stale or a company is dead, keep duplicates out of your list, and pace a 200-record task so it lands on time.
6 lessons · ~32 min · exam + certificate
Research tasks are judged against one standard: every field populated or honestly marked unavailable, and every figure traceable when the brief asks for sourcing. This course teaches the judgement behind that standard: choosing sources, corroborating facts that matter, reading whether data is current, running discovery and verification with the right method for each, and holding the line between honest unavailability and invented findings.
6 lessons · ~28 min · exam + certificateRead the course →
Analysis deliveries are judged on one standard: figures reconcile to the source data and the stated method was followed. This course teaches the judgement that meets it, from control totals and documented choices to categorization rules, sanity checks, and the line between reporting and opinion. You finish able to build summaries an operator can re-derive and defend.
6 lessons · ~29 min · exam + certificate
This course teaches the judgement behind paid writing tasks: treating length, tone, and format as hard constraints, and never stating a fact the brief did not supply. You learn to match a client's voice from their examples, keep templates and batches consistent, and rewrite dense text without changing its meaning. By the end, you can self-edit against the same standard the operator uses at QC.
6 lessons · ~31 min · exam + certificateRead the course →
Document production means moving content into a new shape without changing the content itself. This course teaches the judgement behind that line: what you may touch, what you must flag, and how to keep a 90-page rebuild consistent from first page to last. You will finish able to convert, assemble, and verify documents to the exact standard the operator judges your deliveries against.
6 lessons · ~28 min · exam + certificate
Admin and coordination tasks are judged on exact execution and proof, not creativity. This course teaches the judgement layer: following explicit steps without unrequested improvements, keeping an action log worth auditing, tracking dozens of items so nothing silently stalls, scheduling across timezones without daylight saving mistakes, running scripted outreach and its replies, and knowing when to handle, note, or stop. You finish able to meet the standard the operator reviews against, word for word.
6 lessons · ~30 min · exam + certificate
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