Agentic AI is the step after a chatbot. Instead of only answering questions, an AI agent takes a job and gets on with the work: reading email, checking a calendar, searching the web, drafting a reply and running tasks on a schedule, including while your laptop is closed.

This AI agents for beginners course uses Grok Bot, an assistant app where you create bots, give them a brief, connect your accounts and set the rules. You stay in control. Every email, booking and message can sit as a draft on a review card until you approve, edit or decline it.

What you’ll learn on this AI agents course

• Learn the AI agents fundamentals by creating a Grok Bot and giving it a job with a clear five-line brief.
• Connect Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Drive and Slack, and ask read-first questions safely.
• Build AI workflow automation with scheduled routines that run while your laptop is closed.
• Build a triggered routine that flags client emails the moment they arrive.
• Use agent orchestration to have one bot hand work to another, and see every hand-off.
• Use review cards to approve, edit or decline every email, booking and message before it goes out.
• Set Auto-review and Custom Rules so sending, booking, deleting and paying always need your OK.
• Spot and handle untrusted content, such as an email that tries to give your bot orders.
• Teach your bot with memory, skills and screen demonstrations so it works your way.
• Build a complete enquiry workflow: read the email, check the calendar, draft a reply, approve it, and log it to a sheet and Slack.
• Decide when to use agentic AI, a chatbot or an automation tool for a job.

What’s in the course

On 12 November 2026 the Udemy listing showed 8 sections, 50 lectures and 1 hour 42 minutes of video. Every lecture is short and ends with a practice task. Each section has a quiz.

Meet Grok Bot

Install the app, sign in, and create your first AI agent. Give it a job, try it on your phone, and see what makes agentic AI different from a chatbot: you can start a task, close the laptop, and the bot keeps working on its own computer. You also see one bot hand a job to another, and a first look at a scam email the bot will not act on.

Chat, briefs, memory and skills

Write a five-line brief, the standing prompt that tells your agent its role, tone, hours and limits. Teach it a fact once with memory, turn a repeated task into a skill, and teach a task by showing it on screen. Then add a second bot and practise agent orchestration.

Routines that run on their own

Set up AI workflow automation with scheduled and triggered routines. You build a weekday morning brief and a weekly web check that reports only what changed, then learn run history, time zones, and where to find everything the bot has made.

Connect your email, calendar, files and team

Set up practice accounts so you never risk your real inbox. Connect Gmail, Google Calendar, Slack and Google Drive. Ask a read-only question such as “What needs my attention today?”, draft a team update from a file, and build a triggered routine that flags a client email without replying.

Approvals and safety

See a draft held on a review card so you can approve, edit or decline it from desktop or phone. Write an “always ask before” list into the brief. Turn on Auto-review and Custom Rules so sending, booking, deleting and paying always need your OK. Learn why the bot treats instructions in emails and web pages as information, not commands, and how to revoke a connector or clear a memory.

A complete enquiry workflow

Plan the workflow on one page, write an enquiry-reply skill in your own style, then build and test it end to end: a client emails, the bot checks the calendar, drafts a reply, waits for your approval, and logs the enquiry to a sheet and Slack. The last lecture helps you decide when to use an AI agent, a chatbot, or an automation tool such as Zapier or n8n.

Who this AI agents for beginners course is for

• Busy professionals and small business owners who want to hand off email, calendar and research tasks.
• Employees building AI literacy who want to see what AI agents can safely do at work.
• Freelancers and office staff curious about agentic AI, but worried about it acting without permission.
• Beginners who have used an AI assistant and want the next step: AI that actually does the work.
• Team leads who want simple, approved AI workflow automation that posts to Slack and logs work in a sheet.

This is not a Blender course, and you do not need any coding or AI experience. A computer (Windows or Mac) with an internet connection is enough. A smartphone is useful if you want the mobile app. A Grok Bot account is covered in the second lecture, and a free Google account for practice is set up in section 4.

Questions about this Agentic AI course

What is agentic AI?

Agentic AI is AI that takes a job and carries out the steps, rather than only chatting. In this course that means a Grok Bot agent that can read email, check a calendar, research on the web and run routines, with you approving anything that goes out.

Do I need to know how to code?

No. This is a no-code AI agents for beginners course. You set up bots, briefs, routines and approvals in the Grok Bot app. No programming experience is needed.

Will the bot send emails or book meetings on its own?

Not unless you allow it. You learn to use review cards, an “always ask before” list in the brief, and Auto-review rules, so sending, booking, deleting and paying need your OK.

What accounts do I need?

A Grok Bot account, which the course walks you through, and a free Google account for practice so you can connect Gmail, Calendar and Drive without using your real inbox. A free Slack workspace is used for the team-update lessons.

How long is the course?

On 12 November 2026 the Udemy page listed 1 hour 42 minutes of video, across 8 sections and 50 lectures. Lectures are short, and each one ends with a practice task.

Is this a Blender course?

No. It is a no-code course on AI agents and agentic AI, taught by Tom McDonald. If you want Blender courses, they are on the courses page, including Fix AI 3D Models in Blender.