Online safety course · Age 7–17

Gaming, Chat, Livestreaming, and Social Apps

Teach platform-specific risk awareness across games, group chats, voice chat, livestreams, followers, and DMs.

Course overview

What does the “Gaming, Chat, Livestreaming, and Social Apps” course teach?

Teach platform-specific risk awareness across games, group chats, voice chat, livestreams, followers, and DMs. The lessons are: Gaming Safety, Livestreaming Safety, Group Chats, Friend Requests and Followers. Learners complete a hands-on activity before moving on. Profile audit: what could a stranger learn from a mock gaming or social profile?

AudienceAge 7–17. Children and teens. Parent training is available separately.
FormatShort video lessons, a hands-on activity and knowledge checks in the Child Protect Academy.
CompletionA completion certificate is issued after the full course is completed, where enabled.

Lessons in this course

What learners cover, in order.

1
Gaming Safety
2
Livestreaming Safety
3
Group Chats
4
Friend Requests and Followers

Hands-on activity

Profile audit: what could a stranger learn from a mock gaming or social profile?

How this course fits Child Protect

This course is part of the Child Protect Academy, one of two connected parts of Child Protect. Training helps children recognize unsafe situations and know how to ask for help, which can help concerns surface earlier. When a concern is raised, the Child Protect safeguarding platform supports the school’s response. See the safeguarding lifecycle.

Availability

What is available today: the Child Protect safeguarding platform is live. The Child Protect Academy is live at edu.childprotect.co, with video lessons, guided quizzes, step-by-step progress and completion certificates. Two courses are available now after signing in, and the full set of ten courses, in English and Thai, is scheduled for launch. Schools can join the waiting list to be notified.

Common questions

Who is the “Gaming, Chat, Livestreaming, and Social Apps” course for?

It is for children and teens, age 7–17. Parents and caregivers have a separate course.

Does this course replace safeguarding reporting?

No. Training builds awareness. Concerns still go through the school’s safeguarding process, and in an emergency you should call 191.

Is a certificate issued?

A completion certificate is issued after the full course is completed, where enabled.

Last updated: 4 October 2026

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