Jira Cloud & Admin Masterclass: Beginner to AI Power User

Walk through creating a Jira Cloud account from scratch so you have your own sandbox to practice in throughout the course.

Populate your new Jira instance with sample projects and issues so every later lecture has real data to work with.

Learn how to navigate the main interface of Jira Cloud portal confidently.

Explore how Jira organizes work into spaces and how to find your way around each one.

Get hands-on with the issue view in Jira, the screen you'll live in as a Jira user. Learn how to move through issues efficiently.

Create your first issues step by step, covering issue types, fields, and best practices for clear descriptions.

Group related work under epics and link existing issues to them for better tracking.

Learn the different ways to update, reassign, and modify issues after they're created.

See how the list view gives you a flat, sortable look at all your issues in one place.

Understand what boards are for and how they help teams visualize their workflow.

Customize columns, swimlanes, and card details so your board reflects how your team actually works.

Build a board from scratch and filter it to show exactly the issues you care about.

Learn how to prioritize, refine, and organize upcoming work in the backlog.

Use Jira's timeline to map out epics and releases across weeks or months.

Find issues quickly using Jira's built-in search and filter options.

Write your own Jira Query Language (JQL) searches to pull exactly the data you need.

Save your searches as reusable filters and share them with your team.

Set up a brand-new Space/Project from the ground up, ready for your team to start working in.

Control who can access your project and what they're allowed to do in it.

Break down project scope into epics and user stories your team can actually execute against.

Align your board's workflow and columns with your team's real software development lifecycle.

Take a backlog and turn it into a committed, active sprint.

Use Jira's built-in reports to run effective daily standups and track sprint progress.

Set up and track releases so stakeholders always know what's shipping and when.

Learn how the resolution field works and how to use it correctly when closing out release issues.

Close out a sprint properly, including handling incomplete issues and carrying work forward.

Get an overview of what dashboards can show you and why they matter for reporting.

Build a dashboard from scratch using gadgets tailored to your project's needs.

Explore the first set of built-in reports and what each one tells you about your project.

Continue through the remaining built-in reports, including burndown and velocity charts.

Tie it all together by learning how the project summary tab consolidates key reporting data.

Get the big-picture view of how Atlassian Cloud, sites, and products fit together before diving into admin work.

Create a new Atlassian site and add apps to extend Jira's functionality.

Learn the admin workflow for inviting and managing users on your site.

Organize users into groups to simplify permissions and access management.

Tour the site-wide system settings every Jira admin should know.

See how to browse, install, and manage marketplace apps across your site.

Learn how work items function as the foundation of everything configured in later admin sections.

Build work types tailored to how your organization actually categorizes work.

Package your custom work types into a scheme and apply it to a real space/project.

Understand how screens control what fields users see on different issue types.

Continue building on screen schemes with more advanced configuration scenarios.

Learn how fields and field schemes control data capture across your projects.

Create a custom field from scratch and make it available where you need it.

Control exactly when a field is required or read-only, down to the issue-type level.

Configure priority levels and schemes to match how your team triages work.

Set up time tracking and learn the different ways to link related work items together.

Understand how resolutions work and how to configure them for accurate closure reporting.

Design a workflow from scratch with statuses and transitions that match your process.

Package your workflow into a scheme and apply it to a live space/project.

Validate your workflow by moving real issues through it end to end.

Go beyond basic transitions with advanced workflow rules, conditions, and automation options.

Understand how permission schemes control what users can see and do across Jira.

Learn the difference between global and project-level permissions and where each applies.

Set up a clean sample project so you can safely experiment with permission changes.

Give outside collaborators limited, controlled access to your project.

Learn how users, groups, and roles relate to each other, and build custom roles of your own.

Build a permission scheme tailored to your team's access requirements.

Apply your custom permission scheme to a project and confirm it behaves as expected.

Get an overview of Rovo and how it brings AI into your everyday Jira work.

See Rovo's AI-powered search in action, finding information across your Atlassian tools.

Explore how to use Rovo Chat to ask questions and get answers without leaving Jira.

Understand what Rovo Agents are and how they can automate repetitive work for you.

Watch a Rovo Agent handle backlog refinement tasks so you can see the practical value firsthand.

Learn where AI shows up directly inside Jira work items and how to use it effectively.

Use AI to sharpen issue descriptions and automatically generate subtasks.

Build your own Rovo Agent configured for a specific task or workflow.

Wrap up by exploring Rovo's companion apps and browser extension for AI access outside Jira itself.