Essential Digital Skills Level 1
111 videos, 7 hours and 55 minutes
Course Content
- Course Introduction
- Computers and Laptops
- The Internet
- Setting up your Email
- Social Media
- Windows Basics
- Using Apple Mac Computers
- Mobile Devices
- Unit One - Using Devices and Handing Information
- Searching for images
- Searching the internet
- Files and folders on an apple computer
- Checking the file size of a file on an Apple computer
- Computer file sizes
- File types and extensions
- Updating the operating system
- Searching on a website for information
- Improving Search Results
- Organising files
- How to check the file size on a windows computer
- Understanding applications
- Unit Two - Creating and Editing
- Unit Three - Communicating
- Ways to communicate online
- Sending large files
- Opening a Zoom account
- Hosting a Zoom meeting
- Improving your video
- Solving problems during online communications
- Window file explorer
- How to share a photo from your iPhone
- Using Facetime
- The Zoom dashboard and getting started
- Using an online chat facility
- Unit Four - Transacting
- Unit Five - Being Safe and Responsible Online
- What is data protection and why is it important
- What is Personal Data
- What is GDPR
- Does GDPR apply to me
- Data Subject and Personal Data under GDPR
- Personal Information held online
- Cybercrime
- Phishing and Malware
- Text and phone scams
- Public Wifi
- Different email providers
- Private browsing
- Unwanted emails
- Unwanted friends and followers on social media
- Cookie settings
- Encrypting and protecting data
- Password manager applications
- Protecting your computer
- Identity theft and reducing the risk
- What is a VPN
- Multi-factor authentication
- Backing up data
- Protecting privacy
- Social engineering
- Shopping Online
- Course Summary
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Learning Outcomes:
- EDSQ Unit 1 LO 3.4