Facebook and Instagram Ads Fundamentals
A practical beginner-to-intermediate course on planning, building, launching, and improving Meta ad campaigns
Facebook and Instagram Ads Fundamentals is a practical Marketing course for learning how Meta advertising works from strategy through launch and optimization. Designed as a practical beginner-to-intermediate course on planning, building, launching, and improving Meta ad campaigns, it helps students gain confidence with campaign structure, targeting, creative, tracking, budgeting, and reporting.
Build And Improve Effective Meta Ad Campaigns
- Learn how Facebook and Instagram advertising fits into a broader Marketing strategy.
- Understand Meta Ads Manager structure, campaign objectives, audiences, placements, budgets, and bidding.
- Build stronger campaigns with better tracking, creative, funnels, retargeting, and launch checks.
- Improve performance using clear metrics, structured testing, careful scaling, and a 30-day action plan.
Facebook and Instagram Ads Fundamentals teaches the essential strategy, setup, execution, and optimization skills needed to run Meta ad campaigns with more clarity and control.
This course starts with the foundations of how Facebook and Instagram advertising works, then moves into the structure of Meta Ads Manager so students understand how campaigns, ad sets, and ads work together. From there, the lessons explain how to choose the right campaign objective, map offers to customer intent, and connect each advertising decision to a practical Marketing goal.
Students will learn how to set up business assets and permissions, understand tracking basics such as pixels, events, and conversions, and create audience strategies for cold prospects, warm audiences, and existing customers. The course also covers custom audiences, lookalikes, and retargeting logic so students can build campaigns that reach the right people at the right stage of the funnel.
Through lessons on placements, budgets, scheduling, bidding, ad copy, visuals, and video ads, students will see how campaign buildout choices affect performance across Facebook, Instagram, Stories, Reels, and feeds. They will also practice moving from brief to launch, using quality checks before publishing, and reading core performance metrics without being misled by surface-level numbers.
By the end of the course, students will know how to diagnose common campaign problems, test audiences, creative, offers, and landing pages, scale carefully, and create a simple reporting workflow. They will leave with a first 30-day Meta Ads action plan and a stronger ability to plan, launch, manage, and improve Facebook and Instagram campaigns as part of a smarter Marketing system.
Full lesson breakdown
Lessons are organized by topic area and each includes descriptive copy for search visibility and student clarity.
Foundations
2 lessons
Campaign Strategy
2 lessons
Account Setup
2 lessons
Targeting
2 lessons
Campaign Buildout
2 lessons
Creative Development
2 lessons
Execution
2 lessons
Performance Analysis
2 lessons
Optimization
2 lessons
Ongoing Management
2 lessons
Professor Michael Edwards
Professor Michael Edwards guides this AI-built Virversity course with a clear, practical teaching style.