25 Sep 2024
To ensure student email accounts are used solely for educational purposes and to minimise cybersecurity risks, the Department of Education will be restricting the use of student email addresses for non-educational activities. This includes signing up for, or recovering access to, social media, gaming, instant messaging, and similar platforms.
Starting from Term 4, students will no longer be able to use their school email addresses for these purposes. We encourage all students to use personal email accounts for non-school related services.
What Students need to do
If students have signed up for a social media, gaming, instant messaging or similar account using their student email address, please change to a personal email address on each platform by Sunday 13 October to make sure you don't lose access to the account. Here’s how:
- Log in to each account.
- Go to the account settings and update your email address to a personal one. Add a mobile number too, if you haven’t already.
Why this is happening
The department is making this change to ensure all student accounts are being used for their educational purposes, and to help protect students from risks online. Using personal email address for these platforms instead of student email address reduces the chances of someone gaining access to information in your school account.