Digital Citizenship Audit

You are auditing a fictional organization: Neon Circuit Esports.

Fictional students, fictional accounts, fictional artifacts.

Goal: identify what is reasonable, what needs context, and what needs change.

Audit mindset

Not internet police.

Not panic scoring.

Evidence-driven system review.

Rating model

Green: reasonable as designed.

Yellow: context needed or improvement recommended.

Red: clear change needed.

Core questions

What is being shared?
Who is intended audience?
Who else could see it?
Does it involve someone else?
Is consent relevant?
What could go wrong?
What should change?

Audit areas

1. Team website fields and visibility
2. Social account posts and captions
3. Team chat behavior and information handling
4. Stream production exposures
5. Account access and stewardship
6. Public statements after emotionally charged outcomes

Account stewardship findings

Shared passwords, unclear ownership, and stale access are policy design failures with digital citizenship consequences.

Recommended direction includes limited access, unique credentials, MFA, role-based offboarding, and defined account ownership.

Green challenge

Find at least three practices that are working appropriately.

Audits should identify healthy practices as well as risks.

Required finding format

Item
Rating: Green or Yellow or Red
Category: Conduct or Privacy or Consent or Reputation or Account Stewardship
Evidence
Possible consequence
Recommendation

Submission minimums

At least 12 findings with at least:

• 3 Green
• 3 Yellow
• 3 Red

Remaining findings may be any rating if justified.

Prioritization

Select top three fixes by:

• impact severity
• number affected
• current exposure
• implementation feasibility

Priority is not always identical to color.

Redesign one subsystem

Choose one:

• team website
• social workflow
• team chat rules
• stream production process
• account access model

Produce a revised process flow with decision checkpoints.

Final artifact

Digital Citizenship Audit includes:

1. Executive snapshot: top strengths and top concerns
2. Full findings set
3. One redesigned workflow
4. One visual system diagram

Defense prompt

Instructor selects one Yellow finding.

Explain in 60 seconds:

1. why it is not automatically safe
2. why it is not automatically severe

Exit ticket

Complete:

1. The most surprising audit finding was... because...
2. The system change that would prevent the most problems is... because...

Source note

This lesson synthesizes educational concepts from Cybersmile Digital Civility and Online Safety resources with FTC public guidance on privacy and unintended audiences.

The fictional Neon Robotnix audit system, Green/Yellow/Red framework, prioritization model, and redesign workflow are original Robotnix Academy components.