Creating Student Accounts

Teachers can register names and passwords for their Students in the Administration area. Once a Student name and password has been set up, that student can then access any of the exercises uploaded by their Teacher.

When creating a student account, you must supply the following information:

• Name
• Password - a default password will be suggested, but you can change any of your students' passwords at any time. All students on hotpotatoes.net must have different passwords.
• Class memberships - a student can be a member of one or more of the classes set up by their Teacher. See Classes.
• Email Address - this is used to make it easy for teachers to to communicate with students, by providing email links at various points in the Administration Area. See Sending Messages to Students for details. Please note that no-one at hotpotatoes.net or at Creative Technology will send email messages to your students without your explicit consent, except in direct response to a support query from the student concerned - see below.

The Name and Password are used by the student to log in to hotpotatoes.net, so that when they complete exercises, the results can be stored and viewed by the teacher. If a student does not log in, they can still do the exercises (if they know the URL of the exercise page), but the exercise results will not be stored.

Please note that the student's email address and password can both be changed by the student, as well as by the teacher.

Note also that the number of students you can create depends on the hosting arrangement you have with hotpotatoes.net - see Additional Hosting Services for more information.

Technical Support for Students

If your students have any difficulty using hotpotatoes.net, we hope that you will be able to act as the first line of technical support, and we will normally pass on any simple support queries we receive from students (such as lost passwords or login problems) directly to the teacher concerned.

If we receive notification from a student of a genuienly technical issue or problem, we may respond directly to the student, but we will always copy the message to the teacher concerned.

If there is any information which you think would be useful to students, but which is not provided on these Help pages, we will be most grateful if you can let us know. We constantly try to improve the hotpotatoes.net system in response to feedback from students and from teachers, and any comments are most welcome.