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A selection of learning resources to help you be safe and legal online. Areas of learning include keeping online account safe through secure passwords, keeping your own and others' information safe, avoiding online fraud and scams, how to ensure your device is protected and how to socialise online safely.

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Less than 10 minutes
Lloyds Bank Academy

Introduction to online safety

Format: eLearning

Duration: 9 minutes

Audience: Beginner

Account creation/sign in required: No

Description: Learn the benefits and basics of staying safe online. 

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Between 10 and 30 minutes
National Cyber Security Centre

Top tips for staying secure online

Format: Webpage

Duration: Up to 30 minutes

Audience: Beginner

Account creation/sign in required: No

Description: Top tips to ensure you are doing all you can to secure you and your family online.

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National Cyber Security Centre

Cyber security - top tips for staff

Format: eLearning

Duration: Up to 30 minutes

Audience: Beginner

Account creation/sign in required: No

Description: Get confident with what cyber security means for you and learn some actionable steps you can take to stay safe online. 

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Lead Scotland

Alternative formats for online safety and security messaging

Format: Various accessible formats

Duration: Up to 30 minutes

Audience: Beginner

Account creation/sign in required: No

Description: The NCSC’s (National Cyber Security Centre) Cyber Aware campaign gives 6 actions that you can take to stay safe and secure online. We have translated this advice into accessible formats to help everybody understand these key messages.

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Lloyds Bank Academy

Ten tips for staying safe online

Format: eLearning

Duration: 15 minutes

Audience: Beginner

Account creation/sign in required: No

Description: Learn top tips for staying safe online and the main things to look out for.

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Get Safe Online

Get safe online - protecting yourself

Format: Webpage

Duration: Up to 30 minutes

Audience: Beginner

Account creation/sign in required: No

Description: Impartial safety advice on protecting yourself when online. Advice covers many topics including passwords, oversharing, cyberbullying and online gambling.

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Open University

Trust online

Format: eLearning

Duration: 25 minutes

Audience: Beginner

Account creation/sign in required: No

Description: Find out how you can evaluate people, networks and information you find online.

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UK Safer Internet Centre

Advice for social workers

Format: Webpage

Duration: Up to 30 minutes

Audience: Beginners in Social Work

Account creation/sign in required: No

Description: Key advice for social workers about understanding the impact of digital technologies on child protection.

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Being Safe and Secure Online

Format: eLearning

Duration: 25 minutes

Audience: Beginners in Adult Social Care

Account creation/sign in required: Yes (Skills for Care account)

Description: eLearning to help you understand the role and importance of online safety in adult social care. Learn how to identify and navigate the risks to people's safety and security online and what actions to take within your organisation in the event of a data breach.

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Skills for Care logo

Ethical Use of Technology

Format: eLearning

Duration: 25 minutes

Audience: Beginners in Adult Social Care

Account creation/sign in required: Yes (Skills for Care account)

Description: eLearning to help you understand how ethical principles and standards underpin the use of technology in adult social care. Learn how to identify and navigate key ethical issues when using technology in the delivery of care and how to support others to ensure good ethical practice is carried out when using technology within a care setting.

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How to Stay Safe Online

Format: Webpage

Duration: Up to 30 minutes

Audience: Beginners

Account creation/sign in required: No

Description: This guidance from Digital Unite has some helpful hints and tips for staying safe online. The information covers some of the basic things you can do to protect yourself when navigating the online world. 

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Between 30 minutes and 1 hour
Connecting Scotland

Online safety

Format: Video

Duration: 54 minutes

Audience: Beginners

Account creation/sign in required: No

Description: Guidance on password safety, device updates and backups.

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Connecting Scotland

Accessibility and online safety

Format: Video

Duration: 1 hour 2 minutes

Audience: Beginners

Account creation/sign in required: No

Description: Guest speakers from Glasgow Disability Alliance and Lead Scotland share their experience and advice in relation to accessibility and online safety. 

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ScotGov

Staying safe online

Format: Webpage

Duration: Up to 1 hour

Audience: Beginners

Account creation/sign in required: No

Description: Information about staying safe online, including: social media, apps, online fraud, cyber bullying, deleting your browser history and reporting online crime to the police.

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SSSC

Introduction to staying safe online

Format: Video and podcast

Duration: 45 minutes

Audience: Beginners in Social Services

Account creation/sign in required: No

Description: A learning resource for social service workers to help ensure devices and information are safeguarded. 

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SSSC

6 things for staying secure online

Format: Webpage

Duration: Up to 1 hour

Audience: Beginners in Social Services

Account creation/sign in required: No

Description: The SSSC's top tips for staying cyber secure with detailed explanations to help you protect yourself.

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Bank of Scotland Academy

Stay safe and secure online

Format: eLearning

Duration: 36 minutes

Audience: Beginners

Account creation/sign in required: No

Description: Understand how to avoid scams and keep yourself safe online.

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Between 1 and 2 hours
Barclays

How to stay safe online

Format: eLearning

Duration: 60 to 90 minutes

Audience: Beginners

Account creation/sign in required: Yes

Description: This course will provide you with the basic understanding of cyber security for everyday use. You'll explore creating effective passwords, common fraud and scams risks and leave with an understanding of the risks posed from the digital world we live in.

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GCF Global

Internet safety

Format: Online tutorial

Duration: 1 to 2 hours

Audience: Beginners

Account creation/sign in required: No

Description: Internet safety tips to keep yourself and your loved ones protected.

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Learn My Way

Safety and security online

Format: eLearning

Duration: 60 - 90 minutes

Audience: Beginners

Account creation/sign in required: Yes

Description: A series of short online modules covering different areas of online safety, including online behaviours, meeting friends online, online scams and keeping devices safe.

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More than 5 hours
Open

Introduction to cyber security: stay safe online

Format: eLearning

Duration: 24 hours

Audience: Beginners

Account creation/sign in required: Yes

Description: This online course will help you to understand online security and start to protect your digital life, whether at home or work. You will learn how to recognise the threats that could harm you online and the steps you can take to reduce the chances that they will happen to you.

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Coursera

Cybersecurity in healthcare

Format: eLearning

Duration: 15 hours

Audience: Beginners in Healthcare

Account creation/sign in required: Yes

Description: This online module will help you to gain an understanding of the role of digitalisation and cybersecurity in the healthcare context and learn about the opportunities and threats that the healthcare sector faces due to digitalisation and the proliferation of (medical) data.

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