🎓 Stay Safe on Campus WiFi Without Putting Your Accounts at Risk

Who Else Is On Your Campus WiFi?

• You join whichever network has the school's name in it.
• Your laptop connects to any open WiFi automatically.
• File sharing is switched on in a dorm full of strangers.
• You stayed signed in on a library computer.
• You scanned a QR code on a hallway flyer.
• An email "from IT" asked you to confirm your password.

Campus WiFi is shared with thousands of people, and scammers know students are busy, distracted and always online. Look-alike networks, fake login pages and "IT department" phishing emails are aimed at the accounts that matter most: school email, financial aid and banking.

This one-page card gives you the habits and settings that keep your accounts safe in the dorm, the library, lecture halls and the coffee shop down the street.

What's inside: four habits for the whole semester

🔍 Before You Connect: confirm the official network name with your school, use a VPN on guest or open networks, and turn off auto-join for open WiFi.

🎓 Dorm & Library: switch off file sharing on your laptop, lock your device whenever you step away, and use a privacy screen for sensitive logins in public.

🚫 What Not To Do: skip banking and tax filing on open guest WiFi, always sign out fully on shared lab and library computers, and don't trust QR codes on flyers.

🔐 Lock Your Accounts: turn on two-factor for your student account, email and bank, use a password manager with unique passwords, and watch for phishing that claims to come from IT or financial aid.

Who it's for

• First-year students moving into the dorms
• Commuter and graduate students working from libraries and cafés
• High school seniors getting ready for college
• Parents packing a student off to campus

Why it works: it boils campus WiFi safety down to a few settings and habits a student can set up in one evening and stick with all year, protecting the school, email and bank accounts scammers target most.

📄 1-page printable PDF (US Letter) · Instant download · Unlimited personal printing

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