What is a passkey?
Your device becomes the key.
A passkey is a cryptographic credential stored on your phone, laptop, or hardware security key. When you sign in, your device proves who you are using your fingerprint, face, or screen-lock PIN — the secret itself never leaves the device, and there's no shared password for anyone to steal.
Passkeys are an open standard (FIDO2 / WebAuthn) used by Apple, Google, Microsoft and others. The same passkey can sync across your devices through iCloud Keychain, Google Password Manager, or 1Password.
Why we support them
Phishing-resistant, by design.
Passwords get reused, guessed, leaked in data breaches, and phished on fake sign-in pages. A passkey can't be reused anywhere else, can't be typed into a lookalike domain, and isn't something we ever store on our servers. For teachers managing classroom resources and a Stripe-linked seller account, that's a real upgrade in safety.
A passkey is also much quicker — one tap of your fingerprint instead of typing an email and password, then waiting on a magic-link email.
Setting one up
Takes about ten seconds.
Sign in to your Rewarding Resources account, then head to the passkey setup page. Your browser will prompt you to confirm with your fingerprint, face, or device PIN. The next time you sign in, choose “Sign in with a passkey” and you're straight in.
You can keep using email sign-in alongside passkeys — they're an extra option, not a replacement. We recommend setting up a passkey on each of your regular devices.
Browser support
Works on the browsers you already use.
Passkeys work in current versions of Safari (macOS, iOS, iPadOS), Chrome and Edge (Windows, macOS, Android, ChromeOS) and Firefox. If your device is up to date — say, the iPad you teach on, or a Windows laptop running Edge — passkeys should just work.
If you sign in on a shared school computer that doesn't support passkeys, the regular email sign-in is still available.