Logging In

Before you can use hotpotatoes.net to set up classes and student accounts, you have to log in via the the hotpotatoes.net home page. Your login account name and password should have been supplied to you by email when you registered your copy of Textoys, or any other authoring program supported by hotpotatoes.net If you do not have a hotpotatoes.net account name and password, but you have a registered copy of Textoys v2, please contact Creative Technology.

Be careful to type your account name and password exactly as it was provided to you. Names and passwords are both case-sensitive.

Login Problems and Cookies

The login system used by hotpotatoes.net is designed to be secure - it never transmits your password unencrypted across the internet, but uses the encrypted "https" protocol to send your login information to the server. For this system to work properly, your browser must be configured to accept cookies.

Almost all browsers do accept cookies in their default factory settings, but it is possible to configure your browser with higher security options, and thus prevent cookies being sent from one server to another. If you configure your browser in this way, the hotpotatoes.net secure login will not work.

There are two solutions to this problem - you can either reconfigure your browser to accept all cookies, or you can use the cookie-free login page. We recommend that if possible, you reconfigure your browser so that you can use the secure login route.