Module 4 — Online Safety (Course Content)
Course content recovered from MODULE_4_Online_Safety_SEPT_8_2017_lms.zip
(Articulate Storyline, dated 8 September 2017).
Nine screens: a badge introduction, a guidelines section built around five short videos, a simulated online chat, a five-question quiz, and a congratulations screen. No printable handout.
This is the most video-driven of the three modules so far, and the one where the most text survived intact.
The four online safety guidelines
The main teaching screen opens with the framing “The internet is an amazing place… remember to stay safe” and an intro video presented by someone called Cathy. The learner then works through four guidelines, each with its own short video.
1. Be positive, respectful and kind.
Three words define how to behave: Positive, Respectful, Kind. Three words define what to think before doing: Post, Share, Like. The screen also carries a Stop Bullying sign, so this guideline covers both how you treat others and what you choose to amplify.
Video: “Be Positive Respectful and Kind Video.mp4”
2. Keep it private.
Never share: Passwords, User ID, Age, Address, School.
The things you are protecting: Yourself, Family, Friends.
Video: “Keep it private.mp4”
3. Only friend people you know in real life.
Stated on screen as: Only friend people you know in real life.
Video: “Only friend people you knw in person.mp4” — note the typo in the filename.
4. Tell a trusted adult.
Illustrated with a megaphone.
Video: “Tell a trusted adult with title.mp4”
The simulated online chat
The strongest piece of teaching in any module so far. The learner watches a chat unfold on a phone screen between a child and someone using the name Mr. Taylor — the same character from Module 2, which means the two modules are deliberately linked.
Twelve messages across three stages. As the conversation goes on, warning overlays appear: NO! after messages 5 and 7, and RED FLAG! after messages 6 and 8. Later stages bring in an instincts prompt.
The messages I could recover:
“Hey there soccerstar, seen u playing this game b4 — ur pretty good”
“I play soccer at school. R u on a team?”
“I’d luv to play on a league. What league r u in?”
“I have dance but think I can fit soccer in. what night do u play?”
“I’d luv to bring my parents 2 watch u play. Where’s ur next game?”
“I get it — my parents tell me 2 b careful 2”
The pattern is well constructed and worth preserving. It opens with flattery, establishes a shared interest, then escalates through three questions that all narrow down where the child physically is: which league, which night, and finally where the next game is. The last line is the manipulation — when the child hesitates, the stranger mirrors their caution back at them to rebuild trust.
Several shorter replies in the conversation could not be recovered. They are small graphics with stylised text that machine reading could not resolve.
The quiz
Five questions, numbered Q1 to Q4 and Q6. There is no Q5 in the package. This is the same problem as Module 2, which is missing its Q4. Two modules, two missing questions, both silently skipped in the numbering.
All five are statements answered true or false.
Q1. You should tell a trusted adult if someone writes a mean comment about you online.
- Correct: That’s right! … Telling an adult you trust is the first step toward making the mean comments come to an end.
- Try again: Hmm…. telling an adult you trust is the first step toward making the mean comments come to an end.
Q2. It’s ok to share everything, including passwords, with your best friend.
- Correct: Well done! Keep your personal information private. You cannot control what others do or say about you.
- Try again: Think again. You can’t control what other people say and share.
Q3. It is risky to accept all online friend requests?
- Correct: That’s right! … It is risky. You wouldn’t talk to strangers in real life so don’t talk to strangers on the Internet.
- Try again: Hmm… think again! Only accept friend requests from people you know in real life.
Q4. It is harmless fun to post selfies and photos of friends online.
- Correct: That’s right! … be respectful and don’t post photos of other people without asking their permission first.
- Try again: Think again! Don’t post images of others without asking permission first. Some images can damage a person’s reputation. Be careful what you post.
Q6. It’s ok to post your age, school or address online.
- Correct: That’s right! Posting personal information is dangerous. Never post your age, school or address online. Personal information makes it easier for people to find you.
- Try again: Posting personal information is dangerous. Never post your age, school or address online. Personal information makes it easier for people to find you.
Answer key
| Question | Correct answer |
|---|---|
| Q1 Tell a trusted adult about mean comments | True |
| Q2 It’s ok to share passwords with your best friend | False |
| Q3 It is risky to accept all friend requests | True |
| Q4 It’s harmless to post photos of friends | False |
| Q6 It’s ok to post your age, school or address | False |
Problems worth flagging
Q6’s feedback is identical either way. Both the correct and the try-again message are the same sentence. A child who gets it wrong learns nothing about why. Same underlying flaw as Module 2’s Q2, though less damaging — here the message is at least correct, it just fails to teach.
Q3 is written as a question but presented as a statement. “It is risky to accept all online friend requests?” has a question mark on a true/false statement. Minor, but it reads as an error.
“Guidlines” is misspelled in the slide title and in two image filenames. It appears on screen.
“Only friend people you knw in person.mp4” — typo in a video filename. Not visible to learners, but it suggests the files were not checked.
The Q5 gap. As with Module 2’s missing Q4, a planned teaching point is absent. Worth asking Velma whether these were cut deliberately or lost.
Technical state
Same as the other modules.
Built in Flash — 102 Flash files, dead technology since 2020. The chat simulation and the guideline pop-ups are exactly the kind of interactivity that will not survive.
Text is baked into pictures — though noticeably less so here than in Modules 1 and 2. The quiz questions and feedback are real text, which is why this module documented so much more cleanly. The guidelines and chat messages are still artwork.
Five videos, no transcripts and no captions. This module leans on video more than any other — four of the five guidelines are delivered that way. That means a large share of the actual teaching is locked in footage nobody has a text version of, and deaf or hard-of-hearing children cannot access it at all.
59 MB, 331 files.
A note on my own reading
Partway through this batch my ability to look at images stopped working, so everything above was recovered by machine-reading text off the graphics rather than by eye. That method is reliable on clean printed text and unreliable on stylised artwork.
What that means practically: the quiz content is exact, since it came from real text in the file. The guideline words and chat messages are accurate but worth a spot-check. The few chat replies I marked as unrecovered are genuinely missing, not guessed at.