The short answer
Answer six quick questions or upload your CV, and you get a plan: which courses to take, in what order, what you can skip, and how long it takes at your pace.
Building your plan
1Six questions or your CV
2Check your answers
3Get your plan
Courses in order, with reasons
4Start the first course
When you first open your portal, the welcome guide offers to build your plan. Choose Answer six quick questions (where you are now, your background, what you already know, what interests you, your goal and your time each week) or Upload my CV and check the answers it fills in.
Your plan then:
- picks the courses for your goal and puts them in order
- leaves out beginner courses you do not need
- says why each course is there
- sizes it to the hours you have each week
It is built from rules, not guesswork, so you can read the reason for every step.
To change it later: open Settings, then Privacy and data, and choose Run the welcome guide again.
If you upload a CV, its text is sent to an AI service to draft your answers, and the file is kept as your resume in Careers, where you can remove it. The plan is saved only when you check and save it.
Change your plan
Your portal
- Click Settings
- Click Privacy and data
- Click Run the welcome guide again
Updated 22 October 2026
Related questions
- Where do I begin?Most people start with a free course. From there you can practise in the free 3D Lab, try an internship or a job simulation, and look at jobs. Your learning plan can pick the first course for you.
- How do I enrol on a course?On the course page choose Enrol now, free, then Place order, free at checkout. Nothing is paid, you get a receipt, and the course appears in your portal under Courses.
- Does my progress save?Yes. While you watch, your progress saves to your account every 30 seconds, and module completion is saved straight away, so it follows you to any device where you sign in.
- What is EDWartens?EDWartens is the training arm of Wartens Ltd, a UK company. edwartens.com offers free online engineering and AI courses, a free 3D lab, internships and job simulations, with optional verifiable certificates.
- Are the courses really free?Yes. Every lesson, the notes, the practice tasks and the final assessment are free, with no card and no trial. Paying is optional: mainly the certificate once you pass.
- Who can join?Anyone aged 16 or over. If you are 16 or 17, a parent or guardian must agree. Use one account, in your real name.
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