Ollama Essentials — Familiarization Course

This short course familiarizes a new user with the day-to-day essentials of running local models through Ollama: the core command-line interface, the context-window setting that most often causes silent failures, and how local, cloud, and coding-tool execution relate.

Learning objectives. On completion a participant will be able to run and manage models from the command line, set the context window at the correct level for a given task, and distinguish local, cloud, and integrated-tool execution.

This course was written in July 2026, Ollama moves fast . . . updated September 12th.