This course offers a government-wide, agency-neutral awareness course covering the full CUI lifecycle. It opens by placing CUI in the three-tier information framework, between classified national security information and uncontrolled public information, and makes the point that CUI status comes from law, regulation, or government-wide policy rather than from someone's judgment that information "seems sensitive." From there it is practical: learners work with the CUI Registry and the distinction between CUI Basic and CUI Specified, assemble a banner marking themselves rather than just recognizing one, and place markings correctly across documents, portions, removable media and email. Handling covers need-to-know, physical and electronic storage, transmission, remote work, and destruction and sanitization, built around the mistakes people actually make: documents left on printers, personal email "just this once", and CUI in the recycling.
The closing module is the most current material in the course. Alongside incident reporting and consequences, it covers using CUI with AI tools, grounded in ISOO Notice 2026-01 from March 2026 on the responsible use of classified information and CUI with artificial intelligence — guidance that is months old and very unlikely to appear in any competing CUI course. Interactive categorization exercises and scenario-based practice activities are used deliberately rather than everywhere, in the modules where the skill being built is categorization, marking assembly, or matching a scenario to a safeguard; the final module is procedural instead and carries a longer knowledge check.
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