Signing in with Google

Continue with Google sits at the top of the sign-in page, above the email and password fields. It is the same account either way — Google is a way of proving who you are, not a separate kind of login. What it does next depends entirely on whether an account already exists for that address.

The first time a particular Google account signs in, Cooriroo has to decide whether it belongs to somebody it already knows. There are exactly three answers, and they are worth understanding before you tell a colleague to "just use Google".

The refusal in the third row is a security measure rather than a fault. An unverified account is one where nobody has yet proved they own the address, so attaching a Google identity to it would let whoever arrives first take over an address somebody else registered. Verify the account through the email you were sent, then Google will link to it cleanly.

Sign-in does not always end at the dashboard. Four gates are checked in order, and the first one that applies wins:

• an unverified email address sends you to verification;
• an account provisioned with a temporary password sends you to set your own;
• an admin whose workspace has never been set up goes to the setup wizard;
• otherwise you land in the application your account type belongs to.

An account created through Google skips the first gate outright: Google only hands over addresses it has verified, and Cooriroo rejects the sign-in if it does not, so there is nothing left to confirm.