Cybermarvel

Online safety awareness program for schools and communities. Celebrating Safer Internet Day Feb 2025.

  • Connect safely – secure apps and devices and review your privacy settings.
  • Reflect before act – think about how your actions online may affect others or your safety.
  • Protect yourself and others –  learn how to stay safe online and report online abuse.
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Students’ rights and responsibilities in the digital age

Understanding digital rights and responsibilities can help create positive and enriching online experiences for everyone. The Cybermarvel program helps school communities and their families have fun, engaging and safe discussions, to help nurture safe and respectful digital citizens.

To learn more, check out the resources and events below for students, teachers, parents and carers.

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Digital Citizenship

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Cyber safe classroom

Engage your students with virtual classrooms and lesson materials.

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Professional learning

Become more digitally aware so you can better support your students with their online safety education.

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Cyber safe parents

Learn how to improve your digital awareness, identify scams and protect your family when online.

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Cyber playtime

Calling all 5- to 7-year-olds! Want to learn and have fun at the same time? Try our cyber playtime videos and activities.

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Cyber security careers

Cyber security needs you! If you are curious, inquisitive and love problem-solving, you'll love working in cyber!

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Be Cyber Marvellous Challenge

Get your students to submit their entries for the 2024 challenge. Check out the amazing student work from previous years!

About Cybermarvel

The Cybermarvel program is a joint initiative of the NSW, VIC, TAS, ACT, SA and NT education departments. It takes direction from the eSafety Commissioner’s Best Practice Framework for online safety education. It aims to:

  • build staff and students’ cyber safety awareness and skills
  • inform parents and carers how to keep their family safe online
  • encourage safe and positive online behaviours and experiences.

It celebrates Safer Internet Day in February and Cyber Security Awareness Month in October. We encourage schools to promote online safety learning throughout the year.

Cybermarvel has connected with 165,000 students and more than 3,500 staff and parents (2021-24) across Australia, guiding them to be safe, responsible and respectful online citizens.

The program was Highly Commended at the Most Innovative Educator in Cybersecurity category at the Australian Women in Security 2024 awards. 

Judges commendation: "You are leading the way in online safety and cybersecurity education in primary schools across Australia while inspiring high school students through career initiatives that address the cyber skills shortage early on. With diverse resources, virtual classrooms, lesson plans, and teacher training for Safer Internet Day and Cyber Security Awareness Month, Cybermarvel is making a strong impact in raising cybersecurity awareness among students, staff, and parents."

AWSN Award badges 2024 HIGHLY COMMENDED Most Innovative Educator

Australian state and territory education partners

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Tasmania education department logo
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Industry partners

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palo alto networks logo
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Inform and Empower cyber safety and digital wellbeing logo
Microsoft logo
Google for Education logo
Amazon Web Services Logo

Contact us

Please note – only provide personal information that is necessary and relevant to your enquiry.

Privacy Collection Notice-Cybermarvel

Your personal information will only be used for the purpose you are providing it in this form. Please read the privacy collection notice for more information about how we handle your information.

You are providing this personal information so that the Department of Education can process your request.  

This information will only be used for Contacting Cybermarvel and for directly related actions arising from that request.  

The Department of Education will not disclose your personal information to anybody else unless required or authorised by law, such as by court order. 

The Department of Education will store and protect your personal information until the enquiry or purpose of contact has concluded. Subject to any other legal requirements regarding information retention, your information may be retained for 10 days. You may opt-in to be placed on mailing lists, newsletters or other recurring communications forums. If you do, your information will be used for this purpose and stored until you chose to opt-out.  

More information 

This privacy notice applies only to the information you are providing in this form. If you would like to know more about how the Department of Education meets its regulatory obligations in collecting, using, sharing and storing personal information, you can read the complete Privacy Policy and Plan at https://education.nsw.gov.au/rights-and-accountability/privacy.

You have the right to access your personal information held by the Department of Education, without excessive delay or expense. You also have the right to have your personal information corrected if it is inaccurate or out-of-date.  

If you would like to access or correct your personal information, please contact below: 

Legal Services - Privacy

Department of Education
GPO Box 33
Sydney NSW 2001
Australia

(02) 7814 3896

Access to information

You may also contact the Department of Education if you have any questions about this privacy notice. 

Background 

Personal information  

Personal information is any information or an opinion about an individual whose identity is apparent or can reasonably be ascertained. 

Privacy and Personal Information Protection Act 1998 

NSW Government Agencies must comply with the Information Protection Principles (IPPs), which are outlined in the Privacy and Personal Information Protection Act 1998 (PPIP Act). These regulate the collection, storage, use and disclosure of personal information held by Government Agencies. 
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