The simple login without an email address was originally designed some years ago when it was less commonplace for students to all have their own email address and a solution was needed to allow these students to use Cloud Stop Motion. Nowadays it is very rare for students not to have their own email addresses and we do not recommend creating classic students.

The advantages of creating students accounts with an email address are: 

• Students can sign in via the main Cloud Stop Motion login page instead of the (legacy) student login page. This means (where applicable) students can log on using 'single sign on' with their Google or Microsoft account. Instead of students having to go to the student login page, enter their school name, username and password, they can just click 'sign in with Google/Microsoft' and be instantly signed into their organization account.

• Students who have already independently started animating with Cloud Stop Motion under their own account can be invited to join an organization. When they accept the invitation, their account will be connected to the organization and they can share the organization's storage allowance. Additionally, any organization admins will be able to see and manage the user's account and animations.

• Using an email address and a strong password (or SSO via Google/Microsoft) is more secure than using a simple student login with a basic username and password.

• Users with an email address can be invited to join more than one organization account. They can have a single sign-on but switch between their different organizations when logged in.

• The user's credentials (i.e. email address and password) are stored and managed only by a Microsoft Azure Authentication service, unlike the simple student login details which are stored and managed internally inside Cloud Stop Motion.

This guide was made for Cloud Stop Motion version 2.00.58. We hope it helped. If you have any further questions or queries about Cloud Stop Motion or just want to provide some feedback, leave us a message at animate@cloudstopmotion.com and we'll get back to you as soon as we can!