Tips on how to stay safe online during the COVID-19 pandemic
Learn about the latest games, apps and social media, including how to protect your information and report inappropriate content. More coming soon!
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Zoom is a remote conferencing service that allows you to communicate with other people through video and audio calling, chat, online learning and webinars.
Houseparty is a social networking app which allows you to create a group video chat with up to eight people on mobile or desktop.
TikTok is a social media app for creating and sharing short videos.
Omegle is a free online chat website that allows you to chat anonymously to strangers through text or video chat.
Snapchat is a messaging app that lets you send images, video or texts to friends. These images, video and text are only available for a short time before they disappear.
Instagram is a social media service designed for people to share photos and video.
Facebook is a social media service, which lets you create a page about yourself, an organisation or group.
Roblox is a game-creation platform that allows users to design their own games and play a wide variety of games created by other users.
Minecraft is a virtual building game where you can create your own virtual world using building blocks and interact with other players.
Fortnite is a third-person shooter game where you can voice or message chat with other players.
Adobe Connect is audio and video web conferencing platform by Adobe.
airG is a social chat and dating service where you can meet new people in your area, share updates and play games.
ALIBI Witness 2.0 is a video surveillance central management system (CMS) mobile app.
Animal Jam is an online game and associated app for kids where they can learn about the natural world, chat to other players and watch educational videos.
Anthem is an online multiplayer action role-playing video game published by Electronic Arts (EA).
Apex Legends is a free-to-play multi-player battle game available on desktop, Xbox and Playstation.
ASKfm is a social media service based on asking and answering questions, in which posts can be anonymous.
Bing provides a variety of search services including images, videos, maps and news.
Blackboard Collaborate is a web video conferencing and webinar platform used for online teaching and learning.
Blogger is an online publishing platform.
Borderlands 3 is a role-playing first-person shooter game published by Take-Two Interactive Software.
Bumble is a social media service used for friendship, dating and online networking that encourages women to make the first move.
Call of Duty is a franchise of several multiplayer first-person shooter games published by Activision.
Chatruletka is an anonymous online video chat platform.
Clash of Clans is an online multiplayer strategy game where you can build your own community, train your troops and attack other players.
Clash Royale is an online multiplayer card game by Supercell.
Code Vein is a third-person open world action role-playing game by Bandai Namco Studios.
Counter-Strike is a first-person shooter video game where you form a team with other players of either terrorists or the government agents trying to stop them.
CSR Racing 2 is a multiplayer car racing game, where players compete in real time with anyone in the world, on mobile.
CurseForge is a gaming website where you can download video game modifications and add-ons for titles like World of Warcraft, MineCraft and StarCraft II
Discord is a social chat platform commonly used by online gamers that is available on computers and mobile devices, and accessible via a web browser.
Doki Doki Literature Club is a free-to-play psychological horror computer game that begins as a dating simulation about a high school boy pursuing different girls.
Dota 2 is a fantasy-style game consisting of two teams of five players.
Dubsmash is a video editing mobile app where you can produce videos or ‘dubs’ by pairing your own lip sync or dance videos with music and captions.
Edmodo is an online education platform and social network for teachers, students and parents who are participating in distance learning.
Episode is an interactive mobile storytelling game where you can create your own ‘show’ using animated content.
