Indeed, welcome! You are about to start your life as a student. Terrific! You will be faced with a lot of new experiences in the period ahead. New people, new knowledge, a new environment and new rules, all of which will clamour for your attention, as does privacy and security. Or let’s just call it ‘privacy and information security’ from now on, OK?
That might not yet sound all that exciting, but pay close attention. You will be confronted with all kinds of information during your studies. Personal data, research reports, sensitive information and a whooooole lot of visual material. The handling of that information is subject to certain rules. You will learn these in this online module.
And why is a group of people pictured in the opening photo of this module, if it is about digital and other kinds of information? Exactly! Because this module actually relates specifically to people. So it relates to you and the way in which you, your fellow students and all employees deal with information. This is because human beings are both the weakest and the strongest link in this area...
After completing this module, you will know:
In this module, you will follow the path taken by every other student from the moment of enrolment up until the first few weeks of the study programme. We will show you how you can handle information in a secure manner and what your rights are (including as regards privacy), as well as the obligations you have to guarantee the secure handling of information, one step at a time. For this purpose, you will complete the following steps in this module:
Each step begins with a short self-test; this will quickly reveal what you already know about a particular subject. After this self-test, you will in each case go through one or two pages, where you will find all the required information about a specific step.
The module concludes with two case studies, in which we will go deeper into commonly occurring situations, so you are not only aware of our rules, but are also in a position to help other students who are unsure what action to take.
It takes approximately one hour to complete this module.
If you have any questions while you are doing or after completing this module, please contact [contact details].
We wish you the best of luck with your studies!