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Learning Online: Managing Your Online Identity

Reflect on how you want to present yourself online and take positive steps towards these goals.

Duration

2 weeks

Weekly study

2 hours

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Many of us now have an online identity running alongside our everyday lives. In this course you’ll consider your online presence; you’ll discover how what we say and do online can have major implications for our real lives, and those of others. You’ll also spend time looking at how to assess and enhance your online identities to ensure that you can get the most out of being yourself online.

This course is just one of a series about ‘learning online’, which introduces you to the essential skills and tools you need to study effectively online.

Week 1
Optimising your online presence
- Welcome
  Consider why it is important to have an online presence, and the ways it can help you.
- The importance of an online presence
  In this activity, you will explore the importance of considering your online presence, and reflect on what is currently available about you online.
- Optimising your online presence
  In this activity, you will explore how to optimise your online presence for different purposes, eg social, business promotion, activism, and employability.
- Optimising your profile
  In this activity, you have the chance to apply your learning to improve some example profiles. You can then reflect on your plans to improve your profiles in future.
- Summary
  To close this week, you are introduced to some of the options for studying at the University of Leeds. You also look forward to next week.
Week 2
Your safety and security online
- Your safety and security online
  This week, you will consider how much information is now available about yourself and others online. You will explore how to protect both your personal data and mental health in this context.
- Protecting and controlling your online identity
  In this activity, explore the actions you can take to help protect your information and assets when sharing material online.
- Protecting your mental health online
  In this activity, you will reflect on the fact that increasingly our online presences are an active part of our everyday life and health. You will also consider the pressures of social media on mental health.
- The dangers of posting online
  In this activity, you will consider how your online identity is more than just your online profile. Your behaviour online, what you post and what you share can have serious consequences for you and others.
- End of course summary
  Now that you’re reached the end of the course, you can think about how you will manage your future online identity and test your understanding of the topics covered.