Welcome to CoCalc’s User Manual!

This explains in depth how you can work productively on CoCalc.

Introduction

• What is CoCalc?
• Getting Started
• Licenses
• News
• Trial Projects

Teaching

• Instructor Guide
  • Creating a New Course
  • Upgrading Student Projects
  • Course Management
  • Collaboration
  • After the Course Ends
  • FAQ, Tips and Tricks
  • Teaching with nbgrader
  • nbgrader for R
  • CoCalc for Short Training Sessions
  • Upgrading Student Projects (legacy version)
• Student Guide
  • What is CoCalc?
  • Working in your course project
  • Our teacher requires us students to pay. How?

Features

• Projects
  • Project Files
  • (+) New
  • Default contents for new files
  • Project Log
  • Project Settings
  • Project Upgrades
  • Project Library
  • Project Initialization Scripts
  • Projects FAQ
• Jupyter Notebooks
  • What’s a Jupyter Notebook?
  • Jupyter Kernels
  • CoCalc Jupyter Notebook Basic Features
  • CoCalc Jupyter Notebook Enhancements
  • Jupyter Widgets
  • Classical versus CoCalc
  • Tips and Tricks
• LaTeX Editor
  • Getting started with LaTeX
  • LaTeX editor features
  • LaTeX Howto and FAQ
  • Import from Overleaf/Sharelatex
• Sage Worksheets
  • Introduction
  • What’s a Sage Worksheet?
  • How to Revert/Undo Changes in a Sage Worksheet
  • Understanding Error Messages
  • Help for Programmers
  • Sage Worksheet Slow When Plotting? Disable svg.
  • How Long are Definitions Stored in a Sage Worksheet?
  • Wiki resources
  • Help about SageMath
  • Howto
• Linux Terminal
  • Quickstart
  • Features
  • Tips and tricks
• Graphical Applications
  • Getting started
  • Installed Applications
  • Tips & Tricks
• Chatrooms
  • Features
  • Chatroom
  • Side Chat
• Task Lists
  • Editing the Description (Markdown)
  • Completing a task
  • Moving tasks
  • Due date
  • Hashtags
  • Search
  • Keyboard shortcuts
  • File format
• Frame Editor
  • Supported file types
  • Multiple Cursors
• Time Travel
  • Using Time Travel
  • Export History
  • Who Changed My File?
• Snippets
  • System-wide Snippets
  • Custom Snippets
• Sharing Files
  • Publishing Files
  • Vanity URLs
  • Using the Share Server
  • File-sharing Tips

Platform

• The Project Toolbar
  • Project List
  • Open Projects
  • Help
  • Account
  • Notification Bell
  • Connection Status
  • Fullscreen Mode
• The Files Toolbar
  • Files
  • (+) New
  • Project Log
  • Find
  • Project Settings
  • Processes
  • Open Files
  • “Side Chat” for files
  • private / public status
• The Account Toolbar
  • Preferences
  • Licenses
  • Purchases
  • Upgrades
  • SSH keys
  • Support
  • Public files
• Billing/Upgrades FAQ
  • General
  • Quota upgrades
• Software
  • Default environment
  • Custom environments
• iPad
  • CoCalc in iPad Web Browser
  • CoCalc Native iPad Application
• Howto
  • CoCalc platform
  • Services
  • Jupyter Notebook
  • Programming Languages and Tools
• Troubleshooting
  • CoCalc says your clock is off
  • Debugging connectivity issues
  • File Too Large
  • Install compiled software
  • Jupyter Kernel Terminated
  • License Doesn’t Work
  • Low Memory Problems
  • Program Seems Slow or Stuck
  • Question about Sage
  • Recovering a Deleted File
  • Recovering a Deleted Project
• API
  • Purpose
  • Protocol and Data Format
  • Authentication
  • Additional References
  • API Message Reference
  • Copy a file between projects
  • Embedding in an IFrame
  • IFrame communication
• CoCalc Docker Image
  • Major Update: July 25, 2021
  • About the CoCalc Docker Image
  • Limitations
  • Questions
  • Getting Started
  • Additional Licensing and Support Available
  • Online Mailing Lists and Open Issues
  • Security Status
  • Updates to the CoCalc Docker Image
• CoCalc Desktop

Indices, references and tables

Appendix

• References
• Index