Accounts and Passwords

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Learn how to keep your online accounts safe by creating secure passwords and managing them safely.

Less than 30 minutes
Digital Learn

Accounts and passwords

Format: eLearning

Duration: 20 minutes

Audience: Beginner

Account creation/sign in required: No

Description: Learn the basics of creating online accounts, including creating secure passwords and keeping accounts secure.

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Age UK

Online password security

Format: Webpage

Duration: Up to 20 minutes

Audience: Beginners

Account creation/sign in required: No

Description: Guidance on how to avoid weak passwords, choose strong passwords and how to use password managers.

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Between 30 minutes and 1 hour
Lead Scotland

How to create a secure password

Format: eLearning

Duration: 30 to 40 minutes

Audience: Beginners

Account creation/sign in required: Yes

Description: A short course focussed on how to create a secure password. The course covers what passwords do, good passwords versus bad passwords and how to create a memorable password.

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Lead Scotland

How to save passwords to the browser

Format: eLearning

Duration: 40 to 50 minutes

Audience: Beginners

Account creation/sign in required: Yes

Description: A short course focussed on how to safely and conveniently manage passwords by saving them to the browser.

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Lead Scotland

How to turn on two step verification

Format: eLearning

Duration: 40 to 50 minutes

Audience: Beginners

Account creation/sign in required: Yes

Description: A short course on how to ensure we have two step verification turned on on our important accounts across our devices. 

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LS

How to protect our emails

Format: eLearning

Duration: 30 to 40 minutes

Audience: Beginners

Account creation/sign in required: Yes

Description: A short course on how to effectively protect our email account with a strong and separate password.

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More than 1 hour
Google

Create and safeguard passwords

Format: eLearning

Duration: 45 to 90 minutes

Audience: Intermediate

Account creation/sign in required: No

Description: Practice creating passwords with a spreadsheet and discover the best ways to keep them safe.

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