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Module 2 — People Safety (Course Content)

Course content recovered from MODULE_2_People_Safety_LMS_Sept_8_2017.zip (Articulate Storyline, dated 8 September 2017).

Twelve screens: a badge introduction, the six safety rules, the Trust Meter teaching section, two interactive practice scenarios, two videos, a four-question quiz, and a congratulations screen. No printable handout in this one.

This module covers protective behaviours around adults and strangers — the “tricky people” material, unsafe secrets, and inappropriate behavior by someone the child knows. It is more sensitive content than Module 1 and the wording matters more.

The six safety rules

Shown as six road-sign graphics the learner clicks through.

  1. Adults should ask other adults for help. (Not children.)
  2. Use a family code word.
  3. Be alert.
  4. Don’t keep unsafe secrets.
  5. No! Go! Yell! Tell!
  6. Check first with a trusted adult.

The wording above was read off the sign artwork. Rules 2, 3, 5 and 6 are certain. Rules 1 and 4 are near-certain but worth confirming against the original source, since the text is stylised and had to be recovered by machine reading.

The Trust Meter

The central teaching idea of this module. A gauge the child mentally checks when an adult approaches them, with the instruction to listen to your instincts.

The gauge runs through five positions. The named feelings along it are confused, uncomfortable, and scared and sad, ending at a NO position at the far end.

The screen poses the question “Who is trustworthy?” and shows four situation cards — a drive, a gift, a photo, and a secret. These four map onto the warning signs the rest of the module drills.

Important gap: the explanatory wording on this screen could not be recovered. It is drawn as artwork that machine reading cannot resolve, and this module carries no transcripts. Someone will need to open the original file, or watch the course run, to capture what the Trust Meter section actually says. Given that this is the core concept of the module, that is worth doing before any rebuild.

Two practice scenarios

Both are interactive: the learner clicks the character, watches the situation unfold, then moves the Trust Meter to Yes or No and sees whether they were right. Each has three “caution” points that highlight as warning signs.

Scenario 1 — Man on a bike. A man on a bike approaches Brandon. The learner is asked “Do you trust?” The scripted correct responses shown are “No way, I’m not allowed to go” and “What? That’s inappropriate.” The reinforcing message is adults ask adults — a real adult needing help asks another adult, not a child.

Scenario 2 — Dad’s accident. Someone tells Brandon his dad has been in an accident and he needs to come with them. The thought bubble reads “Something doesn’t feel right!” — this is the instinct lesson applied to a lure that sounds like an emergency.

Two videos

Tricky People (Tricky People Draft 3.mp4) — plays with no on-screen question attached. Note the filename still says “Draft 3.”

Mr. Taylor’s Gift (Video 2.mp4) — after the clip the learner is asked Should Brandon accept this gift from Mr. Taylor? and answers Yes or No.

Neither video has a transcript in the package, so the spoken content is not captured here.

The quiz

The quiz is incomplete. There are only four questions, numbered Q1, Q2, Q3 and Q5. Q4 does not exist in the package at all — it is not hidden or broken, it was never included. Either it was cut and the others were never renumbered, or it was lost before this build was exported.

Q1. Brandon accepted Mr. Taylor’s gift. Did he make a good choice?

  • Correct: Super Work! When an adult gives a gift, and asks you to keep it secret, this is inappropriate and a huge RED Flag.
  • Try again: When an adult gives a gift, and asks you to keep it secret, this is inappropriate and a huge RED Flag.

Q2. It’s raining. A neighbor offers you a ride home. You text dad and he says you can go. Do you go?

  • Correct: You got permission first, it’s ok to go.
  • Try again: Nice try, but you got permission first from an adult in charge, it’s ok to go.

Q3. After school, you see a man in the parking lot with a cool remote-control car. Do you talk to him about the car?

  • Correct: Excellent! That’s right! Don’t talk to strangers unless you need to for an emergency. Always check with your parent or adult in charge first!
  • Try again: Don’t talk to strangers unless you need to for an emergency. Always check with your parent or adult in charge first!

Q5. Your swim coach wants to change into his bathing suit in front of you. Is this appropriate?

  • Correct: Well Done! This is inappropriate! If they have exposed their bathing suit area, this is a BIG RED FLAG!
  • Try again: This is inappropriate! If they have exposed their bathing suit area, this is a BIG RED FLAG!

Answer key

Question Correct answer
Q1 Did Brandon make a good choice accepting the gift? No
Q2 Do you go with the neighbor after dad says yes? Yes
Q3 Do you talk to the man with the remote-control car? No
Q5 Is the swim coach’s behavior appropriate? No

Worked out from which response is the congratulating one. Worth a check before reuse.

Problems worth flagging

Q2’s feedback is broken. Both responses tell the learner the same thing — that it is fine to go. The “try again” message begins “Nice try, but…” and then agrees with them. A child who answers wrongly is told they were right. This needs rewriting whatever else happens to the course.

Q1 and Q5 have weak wrong-answer feedback. The try-again text is just the correct answer with the praise word removed. A child who gets it wrong is told the fact but not why their answer was wrong, and there is no second attempt guidance. Module 1 handled this better — its wrong-answer messages asked a follow-up question to prompt rethinking.

The missing Q4 leaves a numbering gap a learner may notice, and more importantly means a planned teaching point is absent. Worth asking Velma what Q4 was meant to cover.

“Tricky People Draft 3.mp4” is a draft filename in a shipped course. Worth confirming this is the final cut.

Technical state

Same as Module 1, and same problems.

Built in Flash — 116 Flash files. Flash has been dead since 2020. The still images survive as backups, but the interactive parts, which in this module include both Trust Meter scenarios, will not run.

Text is baked into pictures — almost nothing on screen is real text. It cannot be searched, translated, resized, or read aloud by a screen reader. This matters more here than in Module 1, because the six rules and the Trust Meter are the substance of the module.

No transcripts — 74 audio files and 2 videos, none captioned. For a child safety course this is also an accessibility problem, not just an inconvenience for us.

Bigger than Module 1 — 83 MB against 34 MB, 344 files against 313.