Cybersecurity Courses for K-12 Audiences
A collection of five role-based cybersecurity courses aligned to CISA’s recommendations for K-12 education institutions.
Challenge
When the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) recommended that all staff at K-12 educational institutions complete cybersecurity training to help protect information and infrastructure, Microsoft realized its education customers didn’t have the training materials necessary to accomplish this at scale. Having utilized our deep K-12 education market expertise on a variety of projects, Microsoft turned to us to work with their cybersecurity team to design, develop, and deploy a set of learning experiences for multiple audiences in K-12 education.
Solution
We focused on creating role-specific trainings—so that the material would be more applicable and engaging with specific examples—for five audiences within the K-12 education market: IT professionals, education leaders, educators, students, and parent/guardians. Each version was designed and created to focus on cybersecurity topics most prevalent for each audience, and ultimately published as SCORM-compliant learning modules on the K-12 Blueprint, as well as on Microsoft’s Learn platform in an abridged format.
As a result of our rapid design and development effort, Microsoft was able to make available a variety of role-based cybersecurity training courses for their customers and partners to quickly fulfill the CISA recommendation.
