Frequently Asked Questions
Your Questions Answered
General
Created by two primary school teachers who understand the invaluable, long-lasting, world-changing, power of education, Top Teacher is your go-to library of learning resources, digital tools and digital games created to strengthen, grow, and expand the minds of our precious learners.
We understand that it’s the little details that make the masterpiece. That’s why we fuss over every little element of every resource, teaching tool, and game, until it’s just right. We dive into the nitty gritty of every resource, right down to the perfect font, the spacing of the borders, and the right colour schemes. Why do we invest so much of ourselves on the seemingly small details? Because we know, deep in our hearts, that when teachers are armed with worth-their-weight-in-gold resources, they are equipped to give the education experience that fuels a fantastic, capable, positive future.
All Top Teacher resources, tools, and games are planned, designed and created right here in beautiful Australia.
Treat the special teacher in your life to our treasure trove of teaching resources, tools, and games. Oh, and did we mention? Our library is updated daily! Head over to our Gift Voucher page to pick up a Classic or Ultimate 1-year subscription for your teaching superstar. Here’s what some lucky Top Teachers have said about our gift vouchers:
Our resources are a product of our love for the education community. Every single teaching tool has been checked over umpteen times and tweaked until it’s just right. When it comes to Top Teacher resources? We’re not going to lie. We are total perfectionists. We pour our hearts into every single resource that is brewed up at the TT HQ. Why? Because we only want to deliver teaching tools to light up the minds of our little ones. To encourage them to be curious. To expand their perception. And to empower them to invest their energy in education.
Firstly, thank you!! We’re honoured to hear you’d love to join us! Any available positions will be advertised on SEEK (and on social media, depending on the position). So follow us online, keep an eye out, and wait for the stars to align!
Account
Registered with an email address you no longer use? As long as you know your password, you can still login! Still best to change it though, so login as usual and click on My Account in the top right corner. Then click on Profile and Security and you’ll be able to change your login details here.
Uh-oh! If your email address is already in use, it’s likely because you’ve set up an account with us already. Head over to the sign in page and hit ‘Forgot your password?’ From there, you’ll be able to reset your password. Still having trouble? Shoot us an email at admin@topteacher.com.au or fill out the form on our Contact page and we’ll get you sorted out quicker than staff room birthday cake miraculously disappears.
Us teachers have a lot going on in our minds. Between marking homework, lesson planning, and keeping tiny fingers out of noses? It’s a lot. If you’ve forgotten your account password, just click Login on the home page and then hit Forgot your password? to get the reset link emailed to you.
If you don’t see the email come through (be sure to check your junk folder!), your account could be under a different email address, or may even just have a spelling mistake in it. Flick us an email at admin@topteacher.com.au and we’ll get you back inside in a jiffy.
If you have any unexplained trouble logging in, please email us at admin@topteacher.com.au. Let us know what exactly happens when you try (do you get an error message?), and let us know which browser you’re using and what happens if you try on a different browser, different device etc.
Card expired? Switched from credit card to PayPal? You can easily change the payment details saved in your account. Just head to the Payment and Subscription section and you can change these details in here.
Did you know your Top Teacher subscription is tax deductible? Make sure you save your tax invoice in order to get those hard earned dollars back! Head to the Orders and Invoices section of your account to view and print any of your past invoices.
Subscription
Yippee, back again! A subscription can only be renewed once it expires, so just make sure you wait until then. Once you’re ready for renewal, login, click “upgrade” in the top right corner, and click “renew” on the subscription of your choice to be taken to the checkout page.
Note! If your subscription is on auto-renewal, this is all taken care of for you! Your subscription payment will be automatically charged and you won’t experience any lapse in your access (as long as the payment goes through!). You can see if your subscription is set to auto-renew in the Payment and Subscription section of your account.
First off, can we just say how excited we are that you want to fill up your teacher toolbox with even more of our handy teacher tools?! (We’re doing a happy dance right now. For real.) To upgrade your subscription, login, click on the pink strip that says “Upgrade your subscription here”, click “upgrade” on the subscription of your choice, and you’ll be at the checkout page!
An Ultimate-to-All Access upgrade will just charge you the difference between the two prices.
Who doesn’t love a discount! Discount codes are applied first thing at the checkout stage: you’ll see “click here to enter your code” at the very top of the page. Unfortunately we’re unable to refund any payments confirmed without the discount code applied, so if you’re having any trouble, pop us an email at admin@topteacher.com.au before proceeding with the payment so we can get you sorted ASAP.
There’s a couple of reasons this might be happening:
- You may have created both a free account and a paid one under different email addresses, so try logging into another if this could be the case! A handy hint: To find which email address you used to create your paid account, try searching ‘Top Teacher’ in your inbox. We would have sent you an account confirmation email when you signed up.
- You may currently have a Top Teacher account that doesn’t include what you’re trying to access (hint: Ultimate doesn’t include the Digi-Pass!). We have several packages for different user needs, so for more info on the ins and outs of our subscription types or to upgrade your account, click here.
The Monthly subscription gives you unlimited access to the Digi-Tools and Digi-Games, as well as 20 resources downloads per month.
These download credits are applicable 1:1, so keep in mind that if you accidentally delete a resource from your computer, for example, downloading the same resource again will use another credit. Download credits also don’t roll over to the next month, so be sure to set a reminder a few days before the end of the month to use them up.
From a Free account to any paid subscription, your plan date will start as soon as the transaction is complete and last through the term of the plan (Monthly is 30 days while Ultimate and All Access are 365 days). If you are upgrading from Monthly to Ultimate or All Access, your plan date will reset as soon as the transaction is complete, and last 365 days. If you are upgrading from Ultimate to All Access, your flat-rate upgrade fee will be good for the remainder of your original subscription term, then will be renewed at All Access pricing for the next 365 day period.
We’re sad to see you go, but what must be, must be. In the Payment and Subscription section of your account, you’ll see an auto renewal toggle. Turning this toggle off will stop all future payments and you won’t need to do anything further: your subscription will end at the end of your paid month/year.
If you have multiple subscriptions (i.e. an old, expired one and a current, active one), you’ll just need to click on the active subscription number first in order to be taken to the details page containing the toggle.
The first step to trying out our resources is signing up for a free account. This will give you access to more than 450 freebies available across all year levels and learning areas, giving you 450 chances to see how worthy we are of an upgrade!
As for our paid resources, Digi-Tools, and Digi-Games, unfortunately we don’t offer a free trial. But we’ve introduced a Monthly subscription, designed as a taster, perfect for this purpose! This no-commitment subscription is paid on a monthly basis and gives you 20 resource downloads and an unlimited Digi-Pass each month. This way, you can get a good idea of what we have to offer and can then decide if you’d like to upgrade or discontinue.
Owing to the nature of downloadable e-resources, we don’t offer refunds. But, if for any reason our teaching tools aren’t making you dance around your kitchen with education-empowered joy, we want to hear about it. Top Teacher was created for you. So if you have any feedback on what we can do to make your experience even better, let us know at admin@topteacher.com.au.
In the event you forgot to turn off auto-renew or did not realise your subscription involved a recurring charge, please note the same policy applies. As with any subscription service, it is a user’s responsibility to consider and remember all aspects of a purchase, and to enquire as to the specifics of a payment process before proceeding.
Resources
Absolutely! We know that even the most dazzling resource isn’t a whole lot of help if it doesn’t fit into the teaching curriculum. To make it easy for you, every resource has the relevant Version 9.0 Australian Curriculum code (or Early Years Learning Framework code) listed in its description.
We understand how important it is for little learners to see a familiar font as they learn to read and write, so our literacy resources for Early Years to Year 2 are provided in Australian state font options.
Roughly 1300 of our 8000+ resources are editable for your convenience, and these are all tagged as such on their description page. Unfortunately, if a resource isn’t already listed as editable on the webby, we’re unable to provide you with an editable copy.
While the majority of our resources are part of our paid subscriptions, we sure do know how exciting a freebie is! That’s why we’ve provided over 150 of our high-quality, curriculum-aligned resources for free! Head over to the Freebies page to check them out, and simply login or sign up for a free account to start downloading.
We understand sometimes you might come across a resource you love so much, you just want to buy it on its own, but unfortunately we don’t sell our resources individually. All of our resources are part of our wonderful TT subscriptions with over 8,000 resources available. (P.S. Take a look at our Monthly subscription if you’d like no-commitment access to resources).
We LOVE hearing your suggestions for our next classroom-brightening, handy-dandy teaching resource, you superstar teacher!
Thought of the perfect addition to your teacher toolbox? Scribble us a note via the submission form or:
Email: admin@topteacher.com.au
Instagram: @topteacher
If your resource isn’t printing correctly, check that:
The PDF reader you have downloaded is the most up-to-date version available (we recommend Adobe Reader).
Sometimes your resource won’t print if all the pages in your PDF haven’t downloaded properly. Triple-check that all pages are showing up correctly or try re-downloading.
Still not working? Slide us an email at admin@topteacher.com.au or fill out the form on our Contact page and we’ll get you sorted out quicker than your only working pen somehow disappears into thin air.
While we always strive for complete accuracy, sometimes human error can slip through here or there. We love that you’re on the ball, so if you spot an error, just pop us an email at admin@topteacher.com.au. We’ll fix it up in no time and let you know when the resource is ready to download again.
We know it can be tempting to share the Top Teacher magic with your friends and family, but we do ask that you treat your Top Teacher subscription for personal use only. For more information on this, read up on our Terms and Conditions.
Digi-Tool Dashboard and Digi-Game Zone
They sure can! Every Digi-Game has a QR code on the beginning game screen. Simply display this and they’ll be able to scan and play on their individual devices. (Note: most new devices can scan a QR code straight from the standard camera, however on older devices you may need to install a QR code reader app.)
Of course! While IWBs are increasingly common, we know that they aren’t in every school and we’d never want to exclude anyone from being able to use them! If your setup includes a projector/tv connected to your device, you’ll still be able to use the tools, just without the touchscreen feature of an IWB. So where you might have had a student come up to select the correct sounds in the Word Builder, for example, you would just need to have them verbally answer you instead, for you to then make the selection on your connected device. Old school, baby!
Unfortunately in this day and age with so many variations of tech around, sometimes it’s hard to avoid incompatibility issues!
Because the Digi-Tools use new software, if you’re using an outdated version of your browser or device operating system, you may experience some issues with the Dashboard. This may come in the form of your slides not saving automatically, or a Digi-Tool’s interactivity not responding properly. If this is the case, please update your browser and device OS to the latest versions, as these will be compatible with the Dashboard’s software.
IWB-specific browsers (Chromium, for example) have also proven to be incompatible too, so please install a more universal browser (e.g. Microsoft Edge, Google Chrome) onto your board in order to avoid this issue as well.
Once you’ve updated your device, the Digi-Tools will operate correctly and all slides will save automatically. Please also just ensure you’re saving your word/class lists by clicking on the settings cog on the relevant tools and saving your lists in the menu that comes up on the righthand side.