200 XP
CLAUDE COWORK · START HERE Free lesson 20 min

Give Cowork a first look at the shop's files

Set up the desktop app, connect a practice folder on Manually approve and check Cowork's list against the files.

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Take on the shop's admin

Bobbin & Hem is a small clothing alterations shop run by Priya. You do its admin one day a week: notices, order lists, invoices and customer emails. The shop, its customers and its files are fictional, made for this course. Claude Cowork is the part of Claude that carries out whole tasks: you describe the finished result, and it reads your files, makes a plan, works through the steps and hands back finished documents, spreadsheets or a tidier folder. You'll need a paid Claude plan (Pro, Max, Ultra, Team or Enterprise); the free plan doesn't include Cowork, and myoh Plus doesn't include a Claude plan. A multi-step task uses more of your plan's usage than a quick question. Example replies in these lessons are authored illustrations, not recordings of Cowork; yours will differ.

Quick check

Which folder should Cowork work in for this course?

1 of 7 steps · Take your time. · Practice is optional

No rush. You can revisit any step whenever you like.

Official references for this lesson

Checked against the official help pages on November 3, 2026. Tool interfaces can change.