Digital Footprint & Online Safety
Learn how online activity creates a lasting footprint and practice safer decisions for accounts, devices, social platforms, and personal information.
What you will accomplish
- Recognize digital-footprint risks
- Strengthen account protection
- Build a personal online-safety plan
Course details
- Designed for
- Students, families, job seekers, community members, and employees who use connected devices and online accounts.
- Prerequisites
- No prior technical experience is required. Activities should be completed privately without recording passwords or recovery codes.
- Schedule
- Self-paced · five lessons · approximately two instructional hours.
Course outline
- Your Digital Footprint and Data Trail
20 minutes · Identify the information you create, share, and leave behind online—and understand how it can affect privacy, safety, and opportunity. - Strong Accounts and Safer Devices
25 minutes · Strengthen account and device security with unique passwords, multifactor authentication, updates, locks, backups, and safe recovery settings. - Social Media, Privacy, and Reputation
25 minutes · Control audiences, reduce location and identity exposure, and make safer choices about posts, messages, photographs, and tags. - Scams, Manipulation, and Misinformation
25 minutes · Recognize messages designed to trigger urgency, fear, excitement, secrecy, or trust—and verify before acting. - Your Personal Online Safety Plan
25 minutes · Turn the course into a prioritized plan for accounts, devices, privacy, trusted contacts, and incident response.
Completion requirements
- Complete all five lessons and personal safety activities.
- Earn at least 80% on every knowledge check; attempts may be repeated.
- Finish the dated 30-day online-safety plan.
Learning experience
Your dashboard records completed lessons, knowledge checks, readiness milestones, scheduled testing, and remaining actions. Course access and completion rules depend on the selected package.