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.
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
1 of 7 steps · Take your time. · Practice is optional
Official references for this lesson
- Get started with Claude Cowork
- Use Claude Cowork on web, desktop, and mobile
- Claude Cowork and chat are one Claude
- Install Claude Desktop
- Model improvement privacy settings
- Use Claude Cowork safely
Checked against the official help pages on November 3, 2026. Tool interfaces can change.