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Digital Identity: Digital Footprint

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CategoryMarketing and CommunicationCategoryIntermediate
Discover how your digital footprint influences your life online! Learn how to protect your privacy and security with practical and effective strategies. Sign up now!
  • Duration: 4 hours
  • Effort: 4 hours
  • Pace: Self paced
  • Languages: Portuguese
  • 1,994 already enrolled!
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What you will learn

  • Understanding the definition and examples of digital footprints.
  • Learning how a digital footprint is created and monitored.
  • Grasping the impact of monitoring on privacy.
  • Applying strategies to manage and minimise your digital footprint.
  • Adopting best practices to protect personal information.
  • Learning about privacy features and options on digital platforms.
  • Recognising the risks associated with a digital footprint.

Description

This course on digital footprints teaches participants the importance of understanding and managing their online presence, including how digital footprints are tracked and the potential consequences. It equips users with practical strategies to protect their privacy and reputation, emphasizing best practices for navigating the digital world safely.

Assessment and certification

At the end of each module, in order to assess your progress, there will be a mandatory learning assessment, which will be worth 50% of the final grade.

At the end of the course, there will be a Final Evaluation Test, worth 50% of the final grade.

Course plan

I. Digital Footprint
· Module 1: Definition and Importance of a Digital Footprint
· Module 2: Active vs Passive Digital Footprint

II. Monitoring and Digital Footprint
· Module 3: Creating a Digital Footprint
· Module 4: Monitoring Methods
· Module 5: Impact on Privacy

III. Managing your Digital Footprint
· Module 6: Strategies to Manage and Minimise your Digital Footprint
· Module 7: Best Practices for Protecting Personal Information

IV. Impact of your Digital Footprint
· Module 8: Impact on your Personal and Professional Reputation
· Module 9: Impact of Social Media on your Digital Footprint
· Module 10: Risks Associated with a Digital Footprint

Organizations

Academia Portugal Digital (Portugal Digital Academy)

License

License for the course content

Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives

You are free to:

  • Share — copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format

Under the following terms:

  • Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.
  • NonCommercial — You may not use the material for commercial purposes.
  • NoDerivatives — If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you may not distribute the modified material.
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