Trial resource - not yet verified for classroom use. This is a starting point to help you build your own lesson, not a finished or approved plan. Cyber Safe with Monkleton is new, and we are shaping this with teachers - please adapt it freely, use what works, and tell us what doesn't so we can improve it. Once it has been shaped and checked with teachers, we will mark it verified. Feedback: cybersafe-feedback@monkleton.io.
Sharing devices safely
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This is a starting point, not a script - take what is useful, change what is not, and shape it around your class. It brings a Cyber Safe with Monkleton lesson into the classroom: the behaviour, not just the rule.
The big idea
Handing over your device hands over everything you are signed into. Logging out is not the same as a clean slate - a guest account gives one, and it protects the person borrowing it too.
Learning intentions (adapt to your class)
- I can explain what is still reachable when I lend a device.
- I know a guest account gives a clean, empty session.
- I know to sign out fully on a shared or public computer.
A suggested shape
Starter (about 5 minutes)
You "log off" and hand over your laptop. Ask: what is actually still open? Draw out saved passwords, email, and history.
Explore (about 15 minutes)
Talk through what a borrower could see or change by accident, and how a guest account gives a clean session that disappears when they log out.
Practise (about 10 minutes)
Pupils list the steps: log out or set up a guest account before lending, and always sign out fully on a shared or public computer.
Safe Check plenary (about 10 minutes)
Pupils state the rule: guest mode is not a sign of distrust - it protects both people.
Ready-to-use resources
- Background for you: our guide How can I stay safe on a shared or public computer?.
- To send home: share that guide with families.
In the app
This lesson pairs with an in-app quest in Cyber Safe with Monkleton, so classroom time and screen time reinforce the same habits. The app is in its first previews now, and supporting media is coming soon. Until then, the discussion and activities here stand on their own.
Tell us how it went
This is a trial, and your classroom experience is exactly what will make it better. If you use it, we would love to know what worked and what you changed - email cybersafe-feedback@monkleton.io.
Trial guidance, shared early for teacher feedback - please adapt it before any classroom use, and let us know how it went. Product names are used only to describe their features; Monkleton Labs is not affiliated with, or endorsed by, them. No ads, no affiliate links.