Every course free · Funded by grants and partners

Free AI annotation and evaluation courses

A path from entry level labeling through specialist evaluation, free from start to certificate. Begin at foundations, or jump to the level that matches the work you already do. If your career was the one automated, the pathways will tell you which track to take.

6 courses · 151 lessons · about 45 hours of written lessons, practice sets, and worked examples, plus a certification track with a graded capstone.

Not sure where to start? Take the free skills assessment and get a recommendation, or browse open roles first to see what employers are asking for.

Foundation

Start here if you have never done annotation work or keep failing entry assessments.

FoundationNew

AI Data Annotation Foundations

The vocabulary, rubrics, and quality habits every lab expects.

FreeAbout 4 hours20 lessons

FoundationPopular

Passing AI Annotation Assessments

Why capable people fail entry tests, and how to stop.

FreeAbout 5 hours24 lessons

Intermediate

Move from labeling to evaluation and preference work, where the rates step up.

Intermediate

RLHF and Model Evaluation

Preference data, output comparison, and safety judgement.

FreeAbout 9 hours32 lessons

Intermediate

Prompt and Response Writing for LLM Training

Write the training examples labs actually keep.

FreeAbout 7 hours24 lessons

Specialist

Use the career AI disrupted to qualify for the best paid annotation work.

Specialist

Code and Reasoning Data

Turn a technical background into better paid annotation work.

FreeAbout 11 hours26 lessons

Specialist

Multilingual and Localization Evaluation

Native fluency, applied to model evaluation standards.

FreeAbout 9 hours25 lessons

Certification

Prove the whole skill set in one assessed capstone and get a shareable certificate.

CertificationBundle

AI Evaluator Certification

Every course, plus an assessed capstone and a certificate.

FreeAbout 30 hours across the track22 lessonsCertificate

What these courses are

Training you work through at your own pace, written by this site and free to everyone because we are a registered non-profit funded by grants and employer partners. Certificates are issued by DataAnnotationJobs.org, not by Scale AI, Surge AI, or any other employer, and no course guarantees a job, an assessment pass, or any level of earnings. See our terms and how we are funded.