IT help desk & desktop support
Use the AI assistant your employer allows for the reading and writing around colleagues' tech problems: a vague ticket, an error without the secrets, steps they can follow, articles, escalations and outage notes. Who gets access, whether a message is safe and what runs on a machine stay with you and the people your process names.
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9 short lessons · 53 min of audio · a final exam and a course certificate
Use an AI assistant for the reading and writing around your colleagues' tech problems: the questions for a vague ticket, an error read without the secrets, steps they can follow, articles, escalation and outage notes, while access, security calls and anything run on a machine stay with the people your employer's process names.
four questions before any fix, an error read without passwords, keys or names, and steps with one action each and a place to stop: The ticket that says it doesn't work; The error message, without the secrets; Steps a colleague can follow
an article that says what it applies to, an escalation that says what you changed, and an outage note with the next update and no guessed fix time: From solved ticket to article; What you changed, and what you left; The outage note people actually read
approval on the ticket before access changes, the phishing report that gets thanks and no verdict, and a weekly look back about problems, not people: Access in, access out; Is this real?; The weekly look back, and the desk card
One side of one page, kept in your work tools: the questions you ask before anything and what you strip before pasting, how you write steps, articles and escalations, what an outage note may say, the access rules, how you answer a suspicious-message report, and the names of the people who decide. With it, a weekly look back at the tickets.
The certificate names that artefact and the tools you used — not a title. It carries a code anyone can check: verify a certificate.
The opening of lesson one, exactly as it plays inside — and the exercise that comes with it, which you can do right now without an account.
The ticket says: the internet is down. Or: my computer is so slow. Or just: urgent, nothing works. Someone wrote it between two other jobs, with a customer waiting or a machine running, and right now it is the only thing you know.
This course follows Nadia, a help desk analyst on the small in-house IT team of a family-owned furniture maker. There is a head office, a showroom and a factory, and her tickets come from all three: the finance office, the sales floor, the supervisor at the end of a production line. A ticket, if the word is new, is the record of one request in the ticketing system, the tool your team uses to log, track and close what people ask for. Her manager is the IT manager, who is also the company's named contact for security.
A vague ticket is not a badly written ticket. It is a colleague describing what they experience, in the only words they have. "The internet is down" can mean the whole building is offline, or one website will not load, or the laptop's wireless is switched off, or a password expired and the sign-in page looks like an error. Each of those is a different problem, often with a different owner.
Before anyone fixes anything, find out four things: what exactly happens, since when, what changed, and whether it is only them.
Nadia asks the last of the four first. One person who cannot reach the shared drive is a ticket. A whole floor that cannot reach it is an outage, and that is lesson six.
Try it now · Ask questions before anyone fixes anything
Where:Your approved work assistant, with the person taken out of the ticket
Here is a ticket from a colleague who is not technical, with their name removed: [PASTE THE TICKET]. Give me the few questions that would tell me what is actually happening, in plain words they can answer from their desk, and do not suggest a fix yet.
The rest of the catalogue is there when you need it — but you do not have to choose anything today. One course, one short lesson at a time, one page at the end.
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