Beyond the Chatbot: Mastering Claude Code to Automate Everything

Ready to move past chatbot prompts and unlock true AI automation? This poster presentation introduces Claude Code, Anthropic's command-line AI assistant, and shows how it can help educators and administrators manage data, automate workflows and build software tools without a computer science degree. Discover how to direct AI from your terminal to write custom scripts, automate tedious spreadsheet tasks, audit student data safely and rapidly build web apps or lesson utilities. Learn the basics of installing and configuring Claude Code, managing files with AI and integrating it into your daily productivity workflow, moving from basic prompt engineering to command-line automation. See practical examples for every role: IT administrators writing bulk-data scripts or automating routine system checks, and coaches and teachers generating classroom utilities, cleaning messy roster spreadsheets or creating personalized feedback reports with natural-language instructions. You will walk away with a ready-to-use cheat sheet of terminal commands for embedding Claude Code into your daily operations and turning multistep technical chores into simple requests.