Competitions that make safety a sport
Every week there is something to win in the app. Every month a school competes against itself. Every term the older students go hunting for flags. None of it is decoration: every point is earned by spotting, fixing or reporting something real.
A rhythm for the whole year
Missions
Short themed challenges released every Monday at bronze, silver and gold. Five minutes for bronze, a little longer for gold.
- Phishing Detective: find 5 phishing emails
- Privacy Settings Pro: secure a social account
- Password Master: pass the strength test
School competitions
One class-wide or school-wide event a month, run by the teacher from the console.
- Cyber Awareness Quiz Bowl, timed, all modules
- Poster Design Challenge, voted by students
- Incident Response Drill, respond correctly for points
- Peer Tutoring, points for helping classmates
Campaigns
Special quests, guest speaker videos and themed challenges around the dates the world already marks.
- Cyber Security Awareness Month, October
- Safer Internet Day, February
- School Cyber Fest, a multi-week event ending in an awards ceremony
Capture the flag
Solve security puzzles to find hidden flags, from beginner concepts to real technical skills, on a dedicated platform.
- Beginner to advanced tracks
- Solo and team rounds
- Quarterly, with a state final
Points, ranks and what they are worth
Experience points come from doing, not from logging in. Four ranks mark the journey, and a level-up is celebrated in the app and in class. Thresholds shown are for the pilot and may change.
- 1Novicefrom 0 XP
- 2Defenderfrom 500 XP
- 3Guardianfrom 1,500 XP
- 4Protectorfrom 3,000 XP
- Complete a module
- 50 XP
- Score 90% or more on a quiz
- 30 XP
- Finish a weekly mission
- 25 XP
- Help a classmate, confirmed by them
- 10 XP
- Win a competition
- 100 XP and up
Badges with a test behind them
A badge is a claim about what a student can do, so each one is earned by a specific, checkable action. Three families: what you know, how you behave, and whom you help.
Knowledge
- Password Pro
- Mastered the password security module.
- Phishing Detective
- Scored 90% or more on the phishing quiz.
- Privacy Champion
- Completed every privacy mission.
- Legal Eagle
- Completed the laws and rights modules.
Behaviour
- Helpful Friend
- Helped five classmates, confirmed by their feedback.
- Consistent Learner
- Logged in and learned on 20 consecutive days.
- Challenge Master
- Completed every weekly mission for a month.
- Incident Reporter
- Correctly reported a simulated incident.
Leadership
- Peer Mentor
- Trained junior students in a supervised session.
- Awareness Ambassador
- Led a campaign or awareness event at school.
- CTF Champion
- Won or placed in a capture-the-flag competition.
Leaderboards that protect the people on them
Rankings motivate, and they can also embarrass. So the board narrows as it widens: names inside a class, numbers beyond it. Any student can hide their name at any time, and there is no penalty for doing so.
- Class
- Student names visible to classmates and their teacher.
- School
- Class aggregate scores. Individual students appear as anonymous identifiers.
- District and state
- School rankings only, opted into by the school. No student is identifiable.
Recognition that reaches home
- Certificates
For every module, every level and every competition, from participant to platinum. Printable, dated, with the score.
- Monthly student spotlight
A top performer featured in the school newsletter or at assembly.
- School and classroom awards
Cyber Safety Champion School for the highest completion and scores. Most Engaged Classroom for the teacher whose class showed up most.
- A note to parents
Parents of high performers get a monthly email with what their child achieved and why it matters.
Try a mission now. Eight messages, some real, some traps.
Spot the scam is a public version of the Phishing Detective weekly mission.