.. _instructor-guide:

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Instructor Guide
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There are several reasons why you should consider conducting a course on CoCalc:

* **Managed platform:** no time is wasted setting up, maintaining, backing up and securing a flaky platform. Instead, you can sleep while CoCalc ensures everything runs smoothly 24/7.
* **Proven track record:** CoCalc is used for teaching since 2013 in hundreds of courses by tens of thousands of students.
* **Student work is isolated:** Each student does course work in a separate project. Group work is also possible if desired.
* **Focus on helping students:** Jump right into a student's file at any time, see editing history, attract attention from a side chat.
* **Control AI usage:** Turn off AI integration for students, enable it only for basic troubleshooting, or leave the full integration - you decide.
* **Access GPUs and other powerful machines:** Use compute servers when standard project resources are not sufficient.
* **Flexible billing**: Pay for your students (with individual limits on compute servers) or let them pay for resources that you configure.

.. hint::

    While the intention of this Instructor Guide is to cover all course management functionality in detail, its complementary :doc:`teaching-students` is kept short and simple, emphasizing the most important points for students, e.g. to make sure they are using the right email address. *Please consider linking to it in your syllabus!*


.. toctree::
   :maxdepth: 2

   teaching-overview
   teaching-create-course
   teaching-upgrade-course
   restrict-student-projects
   teaching-add-students
   teaching-course-management
   teaching-interactions
   teaching-after-course
   teaching-nbgrader
   teaching-peer-grading
   teaching-workshop
   howto/nbgrader
   teaching-tips_and_tricks