Digital Safety and Digital Citizenship A Guide for Students
Digital Safety and Digital Citizenship A Guide for Students
The laptop has been given to you as a tool for learning. Use it for that. While doing so, here are some important rules for keeping yourself safe and being a good digital citizen. Most of them come from the Laptop User Charter you signed when you were given your laptop, which you can find at: https:// www. det. nsw. edu. au / policies / technology / computers / l4l / user _ charter. doc
Other sources include: http:// www. cybercrime. gov / rules / rules. htm
Digital Safety
Never let anyone else know your password. If you think someone else may have found your password, change it straight away.
Use passwords that no‐one can guess easily.
Never let anyone else use your username and password. You may be held responsible for anything they do.
Always keep your laptop with you or in a very secure place.
Always log off at the end of each session to make sure that nobody else can use your e‐learning account, just in case you do leave your laptop unattended or with someone else even for a short time.
Tell a teacher straight away if you suspect you have received a computer virus or if you receive spam or if you have received a message that is inappropriate, abusive, harassing or makes you feel uncomfortable. Do not reply to it.
If someone on the internet asks for personal information about you, asks to be telephoned, offers you gifts or wants to meet you, report this immediately to a teacher or parent. Do not give this information.
If you find any internet site that contains inappropriate material such as information or graphics that are sexually inappropriate, violent or racist, tell a teacher.
If you suspect that anyone has somehow got around the security of a laptop or the Department’ s network, report them to a teacher.
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