Design help with Security Awareness Course

Great question, Deborah! Security Awareness is a cool topic and something we can have some fun with.

The design mapping tutorials are a good process for identifying the design objects, elements, people, etc for a specific topic. I set up a Google Docs page if you'd like to work it out together.

The first thing we should do is go through the categories and try to capture as many generalities as we can. The thing to remember is we want to list the most typical and obvious elements--we want to avoid being too clever or creative here.

I'm actually building a similar course now. We chose to use photos of people that might work in our company (but don't) as characters in a scenario that weaves through the entire course. The main two characters are a manager and a new employee. The manager is teaching the new employee some of the policies. The learner makes choices as they go about what the characters need to do. The overall slide layout is a very simple white background with the characters coming in by animation from left and right and their speech balloons are subdued with a professional type (no handwritten fonts for this one). We were asked to use company colors so we used those to highlight certain pieces of text for the policy and as borders when needed. The result is a very professional scenario based course.

We did the assessment as scenarios too using the same characters.

I wish I could share a couple of slides but it's proprietary to our company so I can't. I do hope this gives you some ideas though.

Hi Leah,

Thank you for your input.  Your course sounds super!  I can envision the scenario exactly as you described!  I appreciate you sharing your ideas very much. 

Regards,

Debbie

Hi Debora - did you get what you needed on this? Did you take a pass at the design map? IF you're still looking for some assistance on the visual theme, let us know, it would be fun to work out!

Working a bit with the Google docs page that folks contributed to, here's an updated version of the design map terms. Is there anything else we should add?

View: pdf version

Well, it's funny --- I actually have most of those components in my course, so I must be doing something right!  Thanks David!

Would anyone be willing to share their course?  We were looking the possibly of building something in-house, however, I don't really want to reinvent the wheel. 

~April

Take a look at the Center for Information Security Awareness - CFISA https://www.cfisa.com/  they have a free course that you can review. It is under the free Infragard course. There is also paid security awareness, HIPAA and PCI courses available.