From a 6K account to a full cori account
Securing an account created with the 6K access code using email, Google or Apple, including parental consent for under-16s.
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Anyone who got into the 6K practice room with the 6K access code has an account without an email address and without a password. That's deliberate: for a whole school class to join, nobody should have to create an email address first. The price for that is that this account only exists on that one device, or in that one browser. This article shows how to turn it into a full cori account.
Without an email address or a Google or Apple sign-in, you can't sign back in once you've signed out, and you can't take your account to a new device. For teachers with a group of their own that's especially awkward: losing the account would also mean losing access to your own group.
What a 6K account can and can't do
It can already: use all the songs and practice videos of the 6K practice room, join a group, see and answer appointments, change your own voice, collect a streak and progress.
It can't: sign in on a second device, come back after signing out, or join or create a cori choir. That's exactly where cori offers the upgrade of its own accord.
When cori asks about it
You don't have to go looking for the route; it opens up automatically in two situations:
- You want to join a choir or start one. Via the “Discover cori” card at the bottom of the settings, or via the plus in the choir bar. Before you go any further, you create your account.
- You create a group as a teacher without having a proper account. cori then secures your account first and creates the group afterwards, automatically, with the name you had already typed in. That works the same way in the app and in the browser.
Are you under 16?
If you come from the 6K practice room and create a personal account in the app, cori first asks how old you are. Anyone who says they are under 16 needs a parent's consent:
To the question “How old are you?” you choose I'm under 16.
cori explains what changes: from the personal account onwards, the general cori terms of use and privacy policy apply, and the special 6K safeguards only apply inside the 6K practice room.
Enter the address of a parent or guardian and send off the request.
Your parents get an email with a link. It says who made the request and that it's about the 6K practice room; consent is given with a click in the browser. The app checks in the background whether consent has arrived, so you don't have to refresh anything.
As soon as it's approved, cori reports “Approved!” and you choose your sign-in method.
After that it expires and consent has to be requested again. If the email hasn't arrived, you can have it sent again from the waiting screen. That creates a fresh link. Check the spam folder too.
Teachers who come from creating a group skip the age question; for them it goes straight on to the sign-in method.
Choosing a sign-in method
There are three routes, all equally valid:
- Continue with email: name, email address and a password of at least six characters.
- Continue with Google
- Sign in with Apple
If your name is already known from joining, cori doesn't ask for it a second time.
Two error messages crop up here fairly often: “This email is already in use” means there's already a cori account for that address. Use a different one. “This account is already linked to another user” means the same thing for Google and Apple.
Your progress stays
Upgrading creates no new account. cori attaches the sign-in details to your existing account. Everything stays as it was:
- your membership of the 6K practice room and of your group
- your group and its appointments, if you're a teacher
- streak, XP, level and badges
- your name and your voice
The only thing that's new: from now on you can sign in anywhere, in the app as well as the browser, and on top of the 6K practice room you can join a cori choir or start one yourself.
What's next?
- Back to the start: Joining with the 6K access code
- What the 6K practice room is: What is the 6K practice room?
- Starting a choir afterwards: Creating a choir
- Or joining a choir: Joining a choir
- Sign-in trouble: I can't get into my account
- What cori stores: Your data and privacy
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