Recognizing and Preventing Identity Fraud #507

🏆 Challenge of the Week

With identity theft incidents increasing every year, protecting your personal information has never been more important. Most people understand what identity theft is in theory, but many of us aren't quite sure about the practical steps to prevent it. 

This week your challenge is to create a short module, course, or interaction. Your example should give learners the opportunity to practice real-world scenarios, make challenging decisions, and build the confidence they need to protect themselves when it matters most.

📝 Content & Interaction Ideas

Here are a few ideas to help you get started. Feel free to use these or choose any content or focus area you’d like for your challenge submission this week:

• Dumpster Diving Prevention: Learners identify sensitive documents from a virtual desk scenario and choose whether to shred, file securely, or discard normally, receiving immediate feedback on their decisions
• Phishing and Smishing Simulation: Present learners with realistic email and text messages. They must decide whether each is legitimate or fraudulent, reinforcing verification strategies and critical thinking skills.
• Address Change Fraud Scenario: Learners respond to notifications about an unexpected address change. They must determine immediate actions (calling institutions, verifying accounts) to secure their information.
• Social Media Privacy Challenge: Learners evaluate realistic social media posts, deciding which details could be risky to share publicly. They practice adjusting privacy settings and removing risky content.
• Strong Password Builder: Learners create secure passwords from given criteria, testing the strength of their passwords with immediate feedback. Include drag-and-drop elements to build passwords interactively.
• Fraud Alert & Credit Freeze Simulation: Walk learners through a scenario of suspected identity theft. They select steps to place fraud alerts and credit freezes, learning through action and consequence-based branching.

⚒️ Authoring Tools

You’re welcome to use any authoring tool you’d like this week. If you’re short on time, try quickly mocking up your ideas using PowerPoint, Figma, or your favorite graphics app.

🧰 Resources

Here are some helpful resources on preventing identity theft. You’re welcome to use any of these in your project. If you use Articulate's AI Assistant for any content or images, please mention that when submitting your example so our team can see how you’re using it.

• Department of Homeland Security: Identity Theft
• Federal Trade Commission: Identity Theft: A Recovery Plan
• California Department of Justice: Identity Theft Information Sheets
• Maryland Attorney General: Identity Theft: Protect Yourself, Secure Your Future
• Lake Forest Police Department: Identity Theft Prevention
• Wisconsin Extension: How to Handle Identity Theft

🙌 Share Your E-Learning Work

You put in the effort, now let’s make sure people see it. Here are some easy ways to share your challenge demos and get your work noticed:

• Personal blog: If you have a blog, please write about your example from this week’s challenge and share the link with your submission.
• Social media: Please share your examples on LinkedIn and mention both David & Articulate using the #ElearningChallenge tags so we can help promote your work.
• Support your peers: With the new submission format, you can comment directly on each example. Try leaving helpful feedback on at least three projects this week
• Community forums: Feel free to cross-post in the forums to give your work even more visibility.

🎉 Last Week’s Challenge:

Before locking down learner identities, unlock some inspiration from last week’s JavaScript examples:

Using Storyline's JavaScript API in E-Learning #506: Challenge | Recap

👋 New to the E-Learning Challenges?

The weekly e-learning challenges are ongoing opportunities to learn, share, and build your e-learning portfolios. You can jump into any or all of the previous challenges anytime you want. I’ll update the recap posts to include your demos.

Learn more about the challenges in this Q&A post and why and how to participate in this helpful article.