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Electronic Communications

Emails and instant messages can quickly make headlines, damage reputations and lead to lawsuits. That's why it is important to remind employees about company standards and regulatory requirements.

Electronic business communications should be treated with the same standard of care and attention as one would give hard-copy correspondence.

Our Electronic Communications Training Course will help your employees understand regulatory requirements for digital communication, communicate professionally and avoid common pitfalls.

 

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  • 25 Minutes
  • All staff
  • Based on UK legislation, but suitable for global audiences upon the removal of UK-specific references and translation as necessary.
  • Compliance Essentials Library

Learning objectives

  • Apply content and tone considerations
  • Appropriately use email as business correspondence
  • Follow retention and monitoring procedures
  • Follow procedures for approved third-party systems
  • Recognise information security considerations
  • Observe professional conduct

    What can you expect your employees to learn?

Introduction

Examples of damaging messages

  • Key points

Content & tone considerations

  • You decide: Content & tone considerations

Professionalism

Email as business correspondence

Example: Producing evidence

Retention and monitoring

  • 'Delete' does not permanently erase data
  • Personal use

Using approved third-party systems

Public forums

  • Professional conduct
  • Anonymity

Information security considerations

  • Who needs to know?
  • Allow only appropriate access to Company information

Observing professional conduct

Summary

Affirmation

Assessment

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Your questions, answered

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Common FAQs

How can I benchmark my team's cyber security awareness?

An anonymous cybersecurity awareness survey can assess your team’s understanding of critical security practices. Skillcast offers ready-to-use surveys to benchmark awareness levels and identify areas needing extra focus.

Are Skillcast courses SCORM-compliant?

Yes. This means they can be delivered via the Skillcast Portal or any other SCORM-compliant Learning Management System.

What other tools are needed beyond training?

A comprehensive compliance solution often needs more than just training. Alongside e-learning, tools like declarations, surveys, and registers that track compliance tasks are usually essential. Skillcast provides full support to help you set up these additional tools.

Is our training content still compliant with the latest legislation?

  • You can check the latest course content updates in our library updates page: https://www.skillcast.com/compliance-course-library-updates
  • For major legislative changes, we:
    • Will send you email alerts to ensure you are notified
    • Offer you a free trial of newly created or updated content
    • Host webinars with compliance experts to explain the changes and how our training supports your ongoing compliance

Can you translate our content into other languages?

Yes, we offer translations in a wide range of languages. Let us know your needs, and we’ll confirm availability or work with you to plan translations for your selected modules.

What file types are supported by the Skillcast system?

Features

Supported file types and details

File Exchange

File types: PDF, Excel spreadsheets, Word documents, SCORM and xAPI files, and compressed zip files. Max file size: Default is 1GB, can be increased to a max of 2GB

SCORM files

Versions: SCORM 1.2, SCORM 1.2 for Moodle, SCORM 2004 2nd, 3rd and 4th Edition. Max file size: 1024MB

xAPI file

Max file size: 2GB

Videos

File types: MP4 or MOV. Videos must be optimised, with a max file size of 100MB. If the file is bigger, our Design Team can help

Images

File types: jpg, png and gif. The file size should ideally be 100KB, but it can be up to 250KB

CPD evidence

File types: Word, PDF, Excel and CSV. File size: the limit should be whatever the portal config option is set to. Servers are set to max 2GB

Policy documents

PDF or Word File size: the limit should be whatever the portal config option is set to. Servers are set to max 2GB

Offline activities evidence

File types: PDF, DOC, DOCX, XLS, XLSX, CSV, PNG, GIF, JPEG, JPG, PPTX and MSG. File size: the limit should be whatever the portal config option is set to. Servers are set to max 2GB

Client logo files

File types provided by client: EPS, PDF, AI and SVG

Registers

PDF, DOC, DOCX, XLS, XLSX, CSV, PPT, PPTX, POT, PPA, PPS, JPG, JPEG, PJEPG, PNG, BMP, GIF, MP4, MOV, WMV, CPTX, CP, TXT, ZIP and MSG files

Declarations

JPG, JPEG, PNG, GIF, XLS and XLSX files

 

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