eSafety & Online Conduct

Safe Digital Participation, Respectful Communication, and Responsible Online Behavior

Thoth.School expects learners to participate safely, respectfully, and responsibly in all online learning activities, communication spaces, assignments, tools, and platform interactions.

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Purpose of This Page

This page explains eSafety and online conduct expectations for learners using Thoth.School. It is intended for learners, parents, guardians, instructors, staff, partners, and reviewers who need to understand how safe online behavior is supported within the academy’s learning environment.

eSafety is connected to safeguarding, privacy, student conduct, academic integrity, technology requirements, responsible AI use, cybersecurity boundaries, parent/guardian support, and reporting concerns.

Core eSafety Principle

Learners should use online learning tools in ways that are safe, respectful, legal, honest, and appropriate for learning. Online behavior should protect personal information, respect other people, support academic progress, and avoid harm.

School-age learners require special attention to safe communication, approved learning channels, privacy, appropriate supervision, and parent/guardian awareness.

Approved Learning Channels

Learners should use approved Thoth.School learning channels for course communication, assignments, feedback, support requests, and collaboration. Course-related communication should remain appropriate, respectful, and relevant to learning.

School-age learners should not be encouraged to move learning communication into unapproved private channels, personal messaging accounts, informal social media spaces, or adult professional communication spaces.

Respectful Online Communication

Learners must communicate respectfully with instructors, support staff, other learners, parents, guardians, and any approved collaborators. Respectful communication includes using appropriate language, listening to others, avoiding insults, and focusing on learning.

Harassment, bullying, intimidation, discrimination, threats, humiliation, offensive language, exclusionary behavior, or repeated unwanted contact are not acceptable.

Protecting Personal Information

Learners should protect personal information online. They should avoid sharing unnecessary personal details, private contact information, passwords, account credentials, family information, location information, images, identity documents, or sensitive data.

Parents and guardians should help school-age learners understand what information should remain private and when to ask an adult before sharing information online.

Account Security

Learners are responsible for using their accounts safely. They should not share login credentials, use another person’s account, impersonate another user, or attempt unauthorized access to any system, course, file, account, or platform.

Suspected account misuse, password exposure, unauthorized access, suspicious messages, or security concerns should be reported promptly through the appropriate support route.

Safe Use of Devices and Tools

Learners should use devices, browsers, files, downloads, uploads, links, productivity tools, AI tools, and learning platforms safely. They should avoid suspicious links, unsafe downloads, unauthorized software, harmful files, or activity that may compromise privacy or security.

School-age learners should use external tools only when appropriate, course-approved, and consistent with parent/guardian expectations and privacy requirements.

Responsible AI Use

AI tools may support learning where allowed by course rules. Learners may use approved AI tools to ask questions, clarify ideas, organize notes, compare explanations, or support productivity.

Learners must not use AI to harass others, generate harmful content, fabricate information, impersonate people, violate privacy, misrepresent authorship, bypass learning, or submit work dishonestly.

Cybersecurity Boundaries

Cybersecurity learning at Thoth.School must remain defensive, ethical, legal, and course-approved. Learners must not attempt unauthorized access, credential misuse, hacking, exploitation, malware activity, evasion, disruption, or social engineering.

Learners must not test systems, websites, accounts, networks, applications, or devices without explicit permission and an approved educational purpose. Practical cybersecurity work must be limited to controlled, lawful, and appropriate learning environments.

Digital Citizenship

Digital citizenship means using technology responsibly and respectfully. Learners should think carefully before posting, sharing, downloading, uploading, forwarding, recording, or commenting online.

Learners should consider accuracy, privacy, kindness, fairness, copyright, academic honesty, safety, and long-term digital reputation when participating online.

Bullying, Harassment, and Harmful Content

Learners must not use Thoth.School systems or related learning activity to bully, harass, threaten, shame, pressure, exclude, impersonate, or harm others. Learners must not share harmful, discriminatory, sexual, violent, exploitative, illegal, or inappropriate content.

Concerns involving harmful content, bullying, harassment, or unsafe communication should be reported promptly.

Online Meetings and Live Sessions

Where online meetings or live sessions are used, learners should join appropriately, follow instructions, avoid disruption, protect privacy, and communicate respectfully.

Recording, screenshotting, sharing, or redistributing online session content may be restricted and must follow course rules, privacy expectations, safeguarding requirements, and consent rules where applicable.

File Sharing and Downloads

Learners should only upload, download, or share files for legitimate learning purposes. Files should not contain malware, inappropriate content, private information, copyrighted material used without permission, or misleading content.

Learners should follow instructions for file formats, naming, submission, and privacy. Suspicious files or links should not be opened and should be reported where appropriate.

Academic Integrity Online

Online learning requires honest participation. Learners should submit their own work, avoid plagiarism, follow assessment instructions, disclose support where required, and avoid using online tools to misrepresent learning.

Sharing answers improperly, copying work, using unauthorized support, or submitting work created by someone else or by AI without permission may violate academic integrity expectations.

Parent and Guardian Role

Parents and guardians support eSafety by helping school-age learners use devices responsibly, protect personal information, maintain secure accounts, follow communication rules, and report concerns early.

Families should agree on safe study routines, appropriate device use, online behavior, privacy, and how the learner should respond if something online feels uncomfortable or unsafe.

Reporting eSafety Concerns

Learners, parents, guardians, instructors, staff, or stakeholders should report eSafety concerns promptly. Concerns may include bullying, harassment, inappropriate communication, privacy issues, account misuse, suspicious contact, unsafe links, harmful content, impersonation, or platform misuse.

Reports should include clear information where possible, such as the course or activity involved, date and time, description of the concern, usernames or accounts involved, screenshots where appropriate, and any immediate safety risk.

Urgent Safety Situations

Thoth.School is not an emergency service. If there is an immediate risk of serious harm, danger, exploitation, abuse, violence, self-harm, or urgent safety threat, learners, parents, guardians, or staff should contact the appropriate local emergency, child protection, law enforcement, or safeguarding authority for their location.

Thoth.School should also be informed through the appropriate route when the concern relates to platform activity, course communication, learner participation, or academy-controlled learning spaces.

Consequences of Unsafe Online Conduct

Unsafe or inappropriate online conduct may result in guidance, warning, parent/guardian communication, restricted access, removal from an activity, review of submitted work, escalation, suspension from a course, or other proportionate action depending on the seriousness of the issue.

Serious safeguarding, privacy, harassment, cybersecurity, or harmful-content concerns may require immediate protective action and escalation.

Connection to Other Policies

This page should be read together with Safeguarding & Child Protection, Student Code of Conduct, Privacy & Data Protection, Data Retention, Complaints Procedure, Academic Integrity & AI Use, Technology Requirements, Parent & Guardian Information, and Accessibility & Inclusion.

These policies work together to support safe, respectful, responsible, and structured online learning.

Commitment to Safe Digital Learning

Thoth.School is committed to supporting safe digital participation, respectful communication, responsible technology use, learner protection, and clear reporting routes.

Learners, parents, guardians, instructors, staff, and partners share responsibility for creating a safer and more respectful online learning environment.