Identity, Safety & Wellbeing
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
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
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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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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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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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 - 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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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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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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Cyber security
Format: Videos
Duration: 10 to 20 minutes per video
Audience: Beginners in Care
Account creation/sign in required: No
Description: This learning resource supports adult social care employers meet the Data Security Protection Toolkit basic awareness needs for the frontline workforce. The resource consists of three videos for frontline staff to be used in team meetings or group learning sessions with a facilitator.
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Digital wellbeing for you, your colleagues and students - briefing paper for practitioners
Format: PDF document
Duration: Up to 30 minutes
Audience: Beginners
Account creation/sign in required: No
Description: In addition to a model and an exploration of the different aspects of digital wellbeing, the briefing includes guidance on the positive actions individuals can take and some good practice principles to support the wellbeing of others.
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Between 30 minutes and 1 hour
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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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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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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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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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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Stay safe and secure onlilne
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
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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Improve your digital safety awareness
Format: eLearning
Duration:60 - 90 minutes
Audience: Intermediate
Account creation/sign in required: Yes
Description: This learning will provide you with a broader understanding of digital safety. Helping you keep your devices and yourself safe while doing more digitally. Exploring how technology can keep you safe and how you can do more to keep your data and accounts secure online.
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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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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
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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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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