Manus AI Agents: Automate Complex Work

Course Overview

WHY LEARN AI AGENTS?

Generative AI is moving beyond chatbots into automated and independent systems that can plan tasks, analyse information, and produce outputs with minimal human intervention.

Instead of prompting AI repeatedly, professionals can now design AI agents that execute entire workflows - from research and reporting to document processing and generation. This course teaches you how AI agents actually work, how to design them properly, and how to build reliable, work-ready agents using Manus.

By the end of the course, you will be able to convert manual tasks into structured AI workflows, deploy agents for real workplace use, and identify automation opportunities across your role.

Every participant will also receive a paid Manus account to generate slides during the course.

OUTCOMES

By the end of this course, participants will achieve the following:‍

Understand what makes an AI agent different from a chatbot
Navigate Manus's core features: Cloud Browser, MCP Connectors, AI Slides, Wide Research, Scheduled Tasks, and Mail Manus
Connect Manus to workplace tools like Gmail, Google Drive and more
Design multi-step agent workflows using a structured planning framework
Build autonomous working agents by combining several Manus core features in a multi-step process
Hands-on Practice: Build your own AI agent to do work independently for you

THIS COURSE IS SUITABLE FOR:

Professionals already using AI tools like ChatGPT at work
Anyone who wants to move from prompting AI → deploying autonomous AI systems

COURSE DETAILS

9AM to 5PM
HRP Course Type Code: SZC-AI51
Course Fees: $600.00 nett

Course Dates And Venue

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Venue:

If our venue is not confirmed, we will be using one of these facilities below:

Goldhill Plaza
Village Hotel Bugis

Course Syllabus

Introduction: From Chatbots to Autonomous Agents
Manus Core Feature 1: Cloud Browser to interact with websites that require login / no login
Manus Core Feature 2: Connectors to connect real world workplace systems like Gmail
Manus Core Feature 3: Slides to create modern sleek pptx files
Manus Core Feature 4: Wide research to deploy multiple parallel agents to research several sources
Manus Core Feature 5: Scheduled task to run AI agents on a scheduled basis
Agent Design Framework
Guided Practice: Build an AI Agent with your trainer
Hands-on Practice: Build your own AI agent to do work independently for you

Pre-requisites

Need a laptop with unrestricted internet access (no download of software is needed)
Need a Google account
Have good English proficiency or WSQ Workplace Literacy skills of Level 7 and above).
Possess basic information and communication technology (ICT) skills.
Programming knowledge is not required

Course Instructor

Brandon Ong

YC Yak

I highly recommend the Data Analysis and Visualization with Python course taught by Brandon Ong. The course is suitable for both complete novices and people who have some prior coding experience.

Brandon understands his audience's needs very well and pitches his lessons at a suitable level, avoiding complex jargon and concepts where possible. He also motivates concepts and techniques he teaches with interesting anecdotes.

Kenneth Kwok

Principal Research Scientist
A*STAR

Brandon was very clear in articulating his words and constantly reminding us that we can stop him at any point for him to repeat a process. The activities that were taught to us are very relevant to the use cases in SCDF.

Kimi Soh

Development Officer
Singapore Civil Defence Force

Brandon is really dedicated, passionate, patient. he managed to package the training in a super interactive, concise and fun manner. Its easy to retain knowledge by seeing the application of Python. This is refreshingly different from other courses

Peck Hwang Wong

Marketing Manager
Amazon

Brandon has received consistent positive feedback from the course attendees on his clear content delivery and patience in guiding the participants through scenarios which are relevant and applicable to real world challenges faced by organisations. The attendees were kept engaged during the highly interactive, well designed course and are encouraged to continue their learning of the subject matter beyond the workshop.

Doreen Ang

Trainer
Nanyang Technological University

Brandon is very knowledgeable and passionate about this topic, with plenty of real-life experiences in-built into his teaching. Instead of going chapter by chapter, we learn to apply the basic but important knowledge and go straight to playing with the software and visualization.

Ding Hui Fang

Senior Executive (Procurement)
Prime Minister’s Office

Brandon provides good project focused learning rather than the typical classroom style lecture. Examples given are very practical and real world

Yip Churn Keit

AOO
Singapore Police Force

Refreshingly different from other courses

Brandon is really dedicated, passionate, patient. he managed to package the training in a super interactive, concise and fun manner. Its easy to retain knowledge by seeing the application of Python.

Peck Hwang Wong

Marketing Manager, Amazon

Plenty of real-life experiences in-built into his teaching

Brandon is very knowledgeable and passionate about this topic. Instead of going chapter by chapter, we learn to apply the basic but important knowledge and go straight to playing with the software and visualization.

Ding Hui Fang

Senior Executive (Procurement), Prime Minister’s Office

Very relevant to our use cases

Brandon was very clear in articulating his words and constantly reminding us that we can stop him at any point for him to repeat a process.

Kimi Soh

Development Officer, Singapore Civil Defence Force

Attendees were kept engaged during the highly interactive, well designed course

Brandon has received consistent positive feedback from the course attendees on his clear content delivery and patience in guiding the participants through scenarios which are relevant and applicable to real world challenges faced by organisations. The attendees are encouraged to continue their learning of the subject matter beyond the workshop.

Doreen Ang

Trainer, Nanyang Technological University

Project focused learning rather than a lecture

Brandon provides good project focused learning rather than the typical classroom style lecture. Examples given are very practical and real world

Yip Churn Keit

AOO, Singapore Police Force

OUR TRAINING METHODOLOGY

End-Goal Driven Learning

OUR MOTIVATION

For Beginners, Learning Programming Chapter-By-Chapter Can Feel Like A Never Ending Journey

As a beginner, learning programming can feel overwhelming with multiple chapters to cover. It’s easy to lose sight of the purpose behind each topic and how they come together to create a final product.

Often, the relevance and objectives of individual chapters may not be immediately clear, making the learning process seem exhausting.

OUR APPROACH

Starting with the End Goal in Mind

‍Instead of learning concepts chapter-by-chapter, all of our foundational courses begin by defining a clear, practical project or problem to solve.

This could be anything from automating a task to building a simple application.

Learning Only What Matters

We don’t cover every possible chapter—instead, we select only the most essential topics that significantly contribute to achieving the end goal.

Every chapter is taught in direct relation to its practical use, ensuring learners understand why it matters and how it fits into the end goal. This keeps learning focused, efficient, and highly applicable.