Unit 5 Being Safe and Legal Online

In this Unit, volunteer tutors will learn how to teach migrant students the skills required to stay safe, legal and confident online, on the following areas:

• respond to requests for authentication for my online accounts and email
• keep the information I use to access my online accounts secure, using different and secure passwords for websites and accounts
• set privacy settings on my social media and other accounts
• identify secure websites by looking for the padlock and https in the address bar
• Online threats and scams: recognise suspicious links in email, websites, social media messages and pop-ups and know that clicking on these links or downloading unfamiliar attachments could put me and my computer at risk
• Back up your computer: make sure that any information or content is backed up frequently by making a copy and storing it separately either in the cloud or on an external storage device