User's Guide

1. Introduction

“Staying Safe Online: A Guide for Tunisian Adolescents and Parents”This Guide contains the course background, objectives and structure, instructions on obtaining your certificate upon completion, and guidance on how to navigate through the course.

To navigate this manual, use the “Table of contents” on the right panel or the previous and next buttons below.

2. About the course

Staying Safe Online: A Guide for Tunisian Adolescents and Parents is a self-paced online course for parents, caregivers, and adolescents aged 13-17, designed to raise awareness and build participants’ skills to interact online safely, mitigate risks, and respond to potential harms.

This course is divided into two tracks:

One dedicated to adolescents, which aims to give adolescents the tools to manage and mitigate potential risks and harms, and develop digital resilience to navigate the internet with confidence and safety.
One dedicated to parents and caregivers, which aims to build parents and caregivers' knowledge of online risks and potential harms and provide guidance on how and when to intervene to ensure children’s online safety.

Course duration

The course is expected to take 2 hours to complete.

3. Course objective and structure

Course objective

By the end of the course adolescents, parents and caregivers will have built digital literacy, being able to recognise, mitigate and respond to online risks and threats. Additionally, parents and caregivers will have the tools and knowledge to approach adolescents about online risks and harms, ensuring their safety.

Course structure

The course is structured around three blocks associated with learning objectives.

Block	Main topics	Learning objectives
Introduction (common for both parents and caregivers, and adolescents)	The role of internet Children’s right within a digital world Online risks and harms	Understand internet’s role and beneficial use Understand the child rights-based approach when protecting children in the digital environment Understand the importance of developing digital skills
Adolescents’ track	Personal privacy and data protection Cyberbulling Relationships online Mis- and disinformation online Deepfakes and artificial intelligence Myths and misconceptions about online threats Ask for help and manage emotional impacts	Identify online risks and potential harms Understand the consequences of online behaviour and risks Understand misconceptions about internet use Understand and apply how to protect oneself Understand and apply how victims can ask for help and manage emotional consequences Understand and apply how to support victims
Parents and caregivers’ track	How children experience the online environment Online violence drivers, risks and harms Technology-facilitated violence and its different types Myths and misunderstandings about internet use Approaching and talking to children about internet use and how to stay safe Reporting abuse and violence, and additional support	Identify online risks and potential harms Understand the consequences of online risks Understand misconceptions about internet use Understand and apply how to protect oneself Understand and apply how parents and caregivers can approach children about online risks, and how to protect themselves Understand and apply how parents and caregivers can support a victim of online risks

4. Resources

On the main course page, you have access to some resources that will assist you on your learning journey. Read more below about how to use each of these:

User’s Guide: The resource you are currently reading. In this guide, you can consult the course structure, course instructions, learning objectives, and any other relevant information participants must know.
Help and support: Where participants can contact the socialprotection.org team when facing technical difficulties.

5. Certification

This course has a final quiz to test your knowledge on the different topics you have seen through the lessons. The goal is to provide a simple tool for you to test what you have just learned.

Certification

To get the certificate, after you have answered the quiz, followed the instructions on your screen.

6. Credits

This e-course was developed by socialprotection.org under a project implemented by the UNICEF Tunisia.

Team

We would like to thank the socialprotection.org team involved in developing this course:

Socialprotection.org Platform Coordination: Mariana Balboni (Senior Project Officer, socialprotection.org coordinator)
Overall course development and delivery coordination: Krista Joosep Alvarenga (Research Coordinator)
Content writing: Isabela Franciscon (Research Associate), Gabriel Mazaro (Knowledge Management Associate)
Content review: Krista Joosep Alvarenga (Research Coordinator)
Arabic Translation: Nourjelha Elhag (Consultant), Amirhosein Rahbari (Research Assistant)
French Translation: João Pedro Dytz (Research Associate)
Course Production: Gabriel Mazaro (Knowledge Management Associate), Amirhosein Rahbari (Research Assistant)
Moodle set-up and administration: Paula Osakabe (Knowledge Management Associate), Gabriel Mazaro (Knowledge Management Associate)

7. Disclaimer

For this course, you are free to:

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

Adapt—remix, transform, and build upon the material.

Under the following terms:

Attribution—You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made.

Non-Commercial—You may not use the material for commercial purposes unless expressly authorized by the licensor.

ShareAlike— If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you must distribute your contributions under the same license as the original.

To view a copy of this licence, visit the Creative Commons licence page.

Site:	Virtual Campus
Course:	Staying Safe Online: A Guide For Tunisian Adolescents and Parents
Book:	User's Guide

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Date:	Wednesday, 30 September 2026, 9:05 PM