Essential Digital Skills Level 1
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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When you are using website browsers, quite a lot of data is kept about you and your history of your browsing history while you are using different sites. So some of this data you can change in the settings, but there's times when you may want to view websites or log in to a website and not have anything tracked that is linked in with what you have done previously. So there is two things we are going to look at. One is setting up and what they call an incognito window and the other one is clearing off your browsing history. So to start with, we will just look at the clearing off the browsing history. So we are on Google Chrome here, if we click these dots at the top, you got an options down here. And the one we want is the third one down which says New Incognito Window. If we click that, a brand new window comes up, you see all the previous windows that were opened have now vanished and on here are some information of what actually you have done. Now, what this can be useful for is [A] if you just want to search the Internet and you don't want people to know what you're doing, but also, it may be that you are logged in to a website but you want to have a look at it as if you weren't logged in. So this isn't allowing, so if you are already logged into one website, now you will not be logged into on this one, it keeps it completely separate. So within the messaging here, it does say that you can browse privately and other people who use the device won't see your activity. So anything, website you visit will not be tracked. However, downloads and bookmarks or reading panes will be saved. So if you do download stuff or you add it to your saved items, then that is there. So if you want to look at a website and you don't want other people who use the computer to see it, then this is fine but be careful what else you download. So it doesn't save information about your browsing history, cookies and site data and information shared or forms, but over here, it does say that your activity might still be visible to people who look at websites that you visit, your employer or school, your internet service provider, so there are... Information is held, but it depends on what type of computer you are working with. This one also, it says, Block Third Party Cookies. This is default turned on. Now, when you are dealing with the cookies, these are things that make the websites function properly, so you might find by doing this, websites don't work as well as they should do. If you do find that, you can just hit the slider switch here and turn that off. We will look at cookies in a separate video. So what we can do then is... You want to close it. Just go out to the top, hit the X button and it's gone. So that is if you wanted to then view the Internet without people tracking you, but what we have got up at the top here is the dots again. We can hit that, we can go down to Settings and from the Settings side, what we can do is look on the left-hand side, it says Privacy and Settings. If we click that, the very top one on the list is Clear Browsing Data. So if you have got a lot of browsing data and you want people not to see what you have been looking at, hit the button, it's got basic and then we can literally put a tick, it's default with a tick in but if we want to, we can take ticks out of any one of these. Then it says the browsing history of cookies and we can clear that data. Now, if you are clearing things like the cookies, then it may be that websites won't function as well as you have been or they may take longer to load. The browsing history will mean that all history you have had, that you are looking at websites will now be cleared, so it may be that you have to re-type in websites that you visit commonly. There is also an advanced setting and you can do a little bit more here. You can download... The download history can be cleared and all these other items here. You can also set it to reset passwords and any other saved data. So this is a good way of cleaning up your computer. So if you want to get out of that just hit the cancel button and this is a settings page here, so we can just hit the X at the top and then it gets out of the page completely. So there are two ways of ensuring that your browsing is safe, in the sense that you can avoid people seeing what you are doing who also use this computer. If you are using shared computers or internet cafes or things like that, you can make these... Pop these windows up and it stops the people who have got the computers from tracking you but also it means you can clear out all the settings and previous websites on your computer. This is a really good thing to do every now and again just to make sure that everything is clear and that there is not people tracking you and all your progress has been cleared, but it will take a while to reset popular websites you visit because you are going to have to type them in rather than pop up automatically for you.
Protect Your Browsing Privacy: Tips for Secure Web Browsing
Introduction to Browsing Privacy
When using web browsers, your browsing data and history are stored, raising privacy concerns. Learn how to safeguard your online activities.
Using Incognito Mode
- Accessing Incognito Mode: In Google Chrome, click on the three dots at the top and select "New Incognito Window".
- Private Browsing: Incognito mode allows you to browse privately, preventing others from tracking your online activities.
- Limitations: While browsing history is not saved, downloads and bookmarks may still be retained.
Clearing Browsing Data
- Navigating to Settings: Click on the three dots, go to "Settings", then select "Privacy and Settings".
- Clearing Data: Choose "Clear Browsing Data" to remove browsing history, cookies, and other stored information.
- Advanced Options: Advanced settings allow clearing download history, passwords, and more.
Enhancing Privacy and Security
By regularly clearing browsing data and utilizing incognito mode, you can maintain privacy and security while browsing the web.
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