Final-year students
Placement season is close and your resume still has no project on it.
Finish with three pieces of work you can demo in an interview.
AI Agents
Manus Mastery — Autonomous Agents That Finish the Job
Delegate a whole task rather than a single request: write a brief, let an agent work, and check what it produced against what you asked for.
- 4 weeksEstimated time
- 4Modules
- 15Lessons
- 3Projects
- YesCertificate
- FreePrice
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Who this course is for
Three people take this course. The work is the same; the reason is different.
Fresh graduates
You have the degree, but the job ads ask for proof of skill.
Build a portfolio before the next hiring round, not after it.
Career switchers
You are experienced elsewhere, new to this field, and starting from zero.
Learn the vocabulary and ship one published project that proves the switch.
Proof, not notes
What you will build
Every module ends in something finished. These are the pieces you leave with.
Delegate one real piece of project work
a comparison, a market note, a shortlist — and audit it properly: every number opened at its source, every gap marked.
Skills used AI Agents
Portfolio project
A monthly comparison table run
from the same brief
Skills used AI Agents
Portfolio project
A tiny plan-and-act loop you
wrote yourself, with results recorded as it goes
Skills used AI Agents
Portfolio project
The brief
Your final project
A tiny plan-and-act loop you
wrote yourself, with results recorded as it goes
- Write down, in one sentence, what the finished thing does and who it is for.
- Build it with the tools this course taught. A borrowed project cannot be explained in an interview.
- Run it from a clean start on another machine, and fix whatever breaks.
- Publish it, and put the link at the top of your resume's project section.
What changes
What you will be able to do
Not definitions to recite — tasks you can open a laptop and complete.
Roles this supports Research and analyst support roles with a clear deliverable · Operations and project coordination roles that delegate work · Any role where you write a brief for somebody else to execute
- Write a five-line brief with a deliverable and a stopping rule
- See the plan before an agent starts working from it
- Get an artefact rather than an answer, and check it against the brief
- Audit an autonomous result: sources opened, gaps marked
- Keep an agent read-only and out of accounts that matter
- Understand what a planning loop is, by building a tiny version
The syllabus
Course curriculum
4 modules · 15 lessons. Open a module to see its outcome and lesson titles.
Module 1 Foundations — what Manus is Meet the tool, get an account, and learn the screen before you learn the prompting.
- 01 Meet Manus — what it is and who makes it Free preview
- 02 Signing in: what is free, what is paid, and what you actually need
- 03 The screen: where every control lives
Deliverable 3 practice tasks, one per lesson
Module 2 Prompting — getting a real answer How Manus reads text, the four-part prompt, your own work, and what to do when the answer is wrong.
- 04 How Manus reads what you type
- 05 The four-part prompt: role, task, context, format
- 06 Manus for the work you actually have
- 07 When the answer is wrong: iterate instead of restarting
Deliverable 4 practice tasks, one per lesson
Module 3 Files, tools and your own data Documents and tables, The brief, the plan, and a delivered artefact, the API, and one boring task automated.
- 08 Files, tables and long documents
- 09 The brief, the plan, and a delivered artefact — Manus's own feature
- 10 Where this fits next to a chat window and your first script
- 11 Automate one boring task with Manus
Deliverable 4 practice tasks, one per lesson
Module 4 Career, projects and honesty A finished portfolio project, the privacy rules, the limits, and the Manus certification paths.
- 12 Build the portfolio project: a research pack with every number sourced
- 13 Ethics, privacy and what never to paste
- 14 Limits, hallucinations and how to check
- 15 Get certified: the official Manus paths
Deliverable 4 practice tasks, one per lesson
Lesson explanations, worked examples and practice tasks are in the learning player, not on this page — so you can read the syllabus without scrolling through the whole course.
How the course works
Every lesson follows the same four steps. No passive video playlists.
- 1
Learn the concept
A short explanation in plain English, with the one idea the lesson depends on.
- 2
See a worked example
The same task done end to end, with the reasoning behind each step.
- 3
Complete the practice task
You write it yourself. The task is the lesson; the reading is only the setup.
- 4
Build and publish a project
Each module ends in work you can open, explain and attach to an application.
Way2Fresher Academy
Courses written for the fresher hiring market — not translated from a bootcamp built for another country.
- Plain English Every explanation is written to be read once, slowly, by someone new to the field.
- Project-first A practice task in every lesson and a project at the end of every module.
- No paywall The full syllabus, all lessons and the certificate are free. Nothing is held back for a paid tier.
3Portfolio projects
15Lessons
The work is the proof
A fresher interview cannot assess a certificate. It can assess a project you can open, explain and change on the spot — which is why every course here ends in one.
- A finished project brief with an evaluation checklist
- A shareable repository, dashboard or case study
- A certificate that records the work, once every lesson is done
Frequently asked questions
The answers that decide whether this is the right six weeks.
Is this just a chatbot with more steps?
The difference is the deliverable and the autonomy. You brief it, it plans, it runs for twenty minutes, and it hands back files. That changes what you delegate, not just how you phrase it.
How do I stop it inventing things?
Require a source next to every number and give it explicit permission to write NOT FOUND. An agent with nowhere to put a gap will fill the gap.
Do I need this if I already use a chat assistant?
Not for a question. For a task that ends in a file — a comparison, a cleaned dataset, a shortlist — it is a different way of working, and worth understanding now.
What will I have at the end of this course?
Three things: a research pack with every number sourced, a saved set of prompts you wrote and tested on your own work, and a Way2Fresher certificate naming the course. Manus also publishes its own learning material for the tools it makes, and the rail on this course page links to it.
Is the course really free?
Yes. Every lesson, practice task and project brief on this page is free to read, and no card is required. A free account only saves your progress and unlocks the certificate.
Do I need coding experience?
No. This course is written for intermediate learners and every lesson starts from the tool itself. If you can use a browser and a file, you can start lesson one today.
How long will it take?
About 4 weeks. The course holds 15 lessons, each built around one practice task, so the calendar depends on how many sessions you can keep each week.
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