Recommended Video Training Curricula

Use These Curricula as a Starting Point

The right training curriculum is different for every school. Some organizations can dedicate several hours each year to cybersecurity training and may deliver it all at once or throughout the school year. Other schools need to keep training time very limited.

Choose the topics, timing, and training volume that fit your risks, policies, audience, and available time. You can use the curricula below as written, shorten them, replace individual videos, and alter them as you see fit.

Repetition can also strengthen a training program. Sending the same video more than once is not necessarily a bad thing—revisiting important topics after time has passed can reinforce the habit, improve recall, and keep high-risk situations familiar. This is especially useful for foundational lessons such as phishing, account protection, reporting suspicious activity, and protecting sensitive information.

Choose a Curriculum Format

Short, recurring training keeps cybersecurity habits visible without asking staff or students to complete a long course all at once. Choose the format that fits your school:

• Standard curriculum: Send one video each month for the lowest monthly workload and steady reinforcement throughout the year.
• Front-loaded curriculum: Send three foundational videos in Month 1, then one video each month for the rest of the year. Choose this option when you want essential habits in place immediately.

Staff: Standard 10-Month Curriculum

Schedule one video per month to build from basic reporting and login habits to data, AI, and incident response.

Staff: Front-Loaded 10-Month Curriculum

Assign three foundational videos in Month 1, then continue with one new video per month. This schedule assigns 12 videos across 10 months.

Students: Standard 10-Month Curriculum

Begin with links, accounts, and common attacks, then move into digital citizenship, AI, online conflict, and asking for help.

Students: Front-Loaded 10-Month Curriculum

Cover three foundational topics in Month 1, then continue with one lesson per month to reinforce safe online decisions throughout the year.

How to Set This Up in Tartan

Automated campaigns are the recommended option for an ongoing curriculum because they can keep enrollment current as recipients are added and reduce manual follow-up. Create a separate automation for each curriculum row so every step has its own timing, audience, videos, and reporting.

1. Create one automated campaign per curriculum step. Use the same audience rules across all ten automations. For the front-loaded option, put all three Month 1 videos in the first automation.
2. Use consistent names. A format such as Staff Curriculum – Month 1 or Student Curriculum – Month 1 keeps schedules and reports easy to scan.
3. Set a completion window. Give recipients about 14 days to finish each assignment. Turn on recipient reminders every 7 days and enable the post-training quiz when it is available for every selected video in that campaign.
4. Review results monthly. Before the next send, check completion, follow up with outstanding recipients, and export results if your school keeps a separate training record.
5. Include new recipients automatically. Turn on dynamic selection and use the recipient-added timing rule to enroll late joiners. Set an appropriate delay for each curriculum step and enable the repeat cooldown so recipients are not sent the same video too soon.

For step-by-step instructions, see Video Training.