Welcome to CoCalc’s User Manual!

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

Introduction

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

Teaching

• Instructor Guide
  • Creating a New Course
  • Course Management
  • Collaboration
  • After the Course Ends
  • FAQ, Tips and Tricks
  • Teaching with nbgrader
  • CoCalc for Short Training Sessions
• Student Guide
  • What is CoCalc?
  • Working in your course project
  • Our teacher requires us students to pay. How?
• Notes
  • Upgrade the Teaching Project First!
  • Setting up a Course with a Site License
  • VFAQ

Features

• 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
  • SageMath specific
  • 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
  • Export History
• Snippets
• Sharing Files
  • Publishing Files
  • Using the Share Server
  • File-sharing Tips

Platform

• Projects
  • Project List
  • Project Files
  • (+) New
  • Default contents for new files
  • Project Log
  • Project Settings
  • Project Upgrades
  • Project Library
  • Project Initialization Scripts
  • Projects FAQ
• Account
  • Account Tab
  • Account FAQ, Tips & Tricks
  • Subscriptions
• Billing/Upgrades FAQ
  • General
  • Quota upgrades
  • Course packages
  • Personal Plans
• Software
  • Default environment
  • Custom environments
• iPad
  • CoCalc in iPad Web Browser
  • CoCalc Native iPad Application
• Howto
  • Developing Software
  • Export TimeTravel History
  • External Tools
  • Install Python Packages
  • Install R Packages
  • Manage Running Processes
  • Upload Files
  • API Examples & Howto
  • Convert HTML to PDF
  • Run A Webserver
  • Bokeh / Holoview Server
  • Jupyter Kernel Selection
  • Setup Jupyter Extensions
  • JupyterLab Extensions
  • Custom Jupyter Kernel
  • Fix broken Jupyter PDF export
  • Randomized Assignments
  • Bash Fortunes
  • Dask cluster
  • Fortran Programming
  • Git Version Control
  • Compile GSL C Code
  • Google Sheets API Demo
  • NBgrader
  • NEURON simulation environment
  • PostgreSQL Server
  • MongoDB Server
  • RemarkJS Slideshow
  • Ruby Programming
  • Turtle Graphics with CoCalc
• Troubleshooting
  • Debugging connectivity issues
  • File Too Large
  • Jupyter Kernel Terminated
  • Low Memory Problems
  • Question about Sage
  • Program Seems Slow or Stuck
  • Recovering a Deleted File
  • Recovering a Deleted Project
• API
  • Purpose
  • Protocol and Data Format
  • Authentication
  • Additional References
  • API Message Reference
  • Embedding in an IFrame
  • IFrame communication
• CoCalc Docker Image
  • 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

Indices, references and tables

Appendix

• References
• Index