Before students can code, question AI, or stay safe online, they need the fundamentals. CodeHS teaches computing systems, digital citizenship, information literacy, and AI literacy from kindergarten through senior year.
CodeHS digital literacy courses build the same strands from kindergarten up, so a 2nd grader and a senior are working on the same skills at very different depths.
Computing systems: hardware, software, networks, and file management
Productivity software: Google Docs, Slides, Microsoft Word, and PowerPoint
Safety and responsibility: passwords, digital footprint, cyberbullying, and screen balance
Data and analysis: evaluating sources, attribution, and reading data honestly
Impacts of computing: how technology shapes communities, culture, and careers
AI literacy: how models are trained, how to prompt them, and where they get things wrong
Each grade band has its own courses, so a district can adopt the whole K-12 pathway or start with the single grade that needs it most.
A Digital Literacy & AI course for each grade, kindergarten through 5th, part of the CodeHop elementary curriculum. Ready-to-go lessons with slides, teacher notes, and unplugged activities that keep screen time down.
See the elementary catalogDigital Citizenship for each grade 6th, 7th, and 8th grade. Short courses, 10 to 18 hours each, covering online safety, digital footprints, privacy, cyber threats, and evaluating what students find online.
See the 8th grade courseDigital Literacy and Artificial Intelligence, a full-year, 115-hour course that pairs cybersecurity and information literacy with Python programming, machine learning, and AI ethics.
See the high school courseTyping by CodeHop is a keyboarding add-on with a standards-aligned progression, real-time feedback, and gamified achievements. Keyboarding is the skill every other computing task sits on top of.
See the typing curriculumThese are complete elementary lessons from the Digital Literacy & AI courses, free to open and read the way a teacher would see them.
Students identify the parts of a computing system and solve simple hardware and software problems.
Open the lessonStudents practice secure habits and learn about the tools and technologies that protect their information.
Open the lessonStudents identify computing devices in their daily lives and explain how technology changed the way people live, work, and play.
Open the lessonStudents create a program that demonstrates how technology impacts our world.
Open the lessonStudents explain different machine learning approaches and build a classification system using a tree structure.
Open the lessonStudents identify patterns, break tasks down, and sequence steps by mapping out their own morning routine.
Open the lessonReal modules and lessons from the courses above, so you can see how the same strand deepens from elementary through high school.
Six modules: Getting Started, Computing Systems, Safety & Responsibility, Impacts of Computing, Data & Analysis, and AI Exploration. Lessons include Modeling Network Connections, Digital Footprint Basics, My Screen Balance Plan, Data Detectives, and Ask AI Better Questions.
Two modules: Cybersecurity and You, and Technology and Society. Lessons include Personal Data and Collection, Can All Information Be Trusted?, Cyber Ethics and Laws, Common Cyber Attacks and Prevention, and the Project: AI on Trial debate.
Sixteen modules across cybersecurity, Python, and AI. Students study large language models, prompt engineering, bias in training data, deepfakes and misinformation, and AI governance, then build an AI-assisted project of their own.
Lesson plans, slides, discussion prompts, auto-graded practice, unit quizzes, and projects come with the course. Teachers without a computer science background can pick up a lesson and teach it the same day.
More states now write digital literacy into their standards, usually in a combined Digital Literacy and Computer Science (DLCS) framework. CodeHS publishes those frameworks standard by standard and builds state course versions against them, so you can show alignment without hand-building a crosswalk.
Browsable on CodeHS: Massachusetts DLCS, Alabama Digital Literacy and Computer Science, South Carolina Computer Science and Digital Literacy, Utah Digital Literacy, Idaho Digital Literacy, Florida Navigating Technology, and IC3 Digital Literacy GS6.
Several states have their own course built to their framework: Alabama DLCS for K-5, grades 6, 7, 8, and 9-12; Massachusetts DLCS for K-5; South Carolina Computer Science and Digital Literacy for K-5; Idaho Digital Literacy; and Florida Navigating Technology.
The CSTA K-12 Computer Science Standards are published grade by grade, from PK-K through high school, alongside the ISTE Standards. The high school Digital Literacy and Artificial Intelligence course maps to CSTA 3A.
The CodeHS AI Level 1 Certification proves foundational AI literacy, and the high school course includes an AI literacy certification practice module. Teachers can earn an AI Literacy microcredential of their own.
CodeHS digital literacy courses cover computing systems and hardware, productivity software such as Google Docs and Microsoft Word, online safety and digital citizenship, evaluating information and sources, the impacts of computing, and AI literacy. Courses run from kindergarten through high school.
Yes. CodeHS has a Digital Literacy & AI course for every elementary grade, kindergarten through 5th. Each one is built from the same six modules: Getting Started, Computing Systems, Safety & Responsibility, Impacts of Computing, Data & Analysis, and AI Exploration, with lesson plans and unplugged activities for teachers.
CodeHS publishes the CSTA K-12 Computer Science Standards, the ISTE Standards, and state digital literacy frameworks including Massachusetts DLCS, Alabama DLCS, South Carolina Computer Science and Digital Literacy, Utah Digital Literacy, and Idaho Digital Literacy. Several of those states also have their own CodeHS course version built to the framework. Browse every framework and its course alignments on the CodeHS standards frameworks page.
AI literacy runs through the whole CodeHS pathway. Elementary students train simple models and practice writing clear prompts in the AI Exploration module. High school students in Digital Literacy and Artificial Intelligence study machine learning, large language models, bias in training data, deepfakes, and AI ethics, then can sit for the CodeHS AI Level 1 Certification.
Digital literacy is about using and understanding technology responsibly. Computer science is about creating it. CodeHS teaches both, and several courses blend them: the high school Digital Literacy and Artificial Intelligence course pairs online safety, information literacy, and AI ethics with hands-on Python programming.
Yes. Several elementary digital literacy lessons are free to open with no account, including Introduction to Computing Systems, Online Risks & Protection, and Impacts of Computing: Our Community. Each sample opens the full lesson the way a teacher sees it in the classroom.
Yes. Typing by CodeHop is a K-12 keyboarding add-on with a standards-aligned progression, real-time feedback, and gamified achievements. See the CodeHS typing page for details on how it works alongside a digital literacy course.
