Instructor Guide

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.

• Focus on helping students: Jump right into a student’s file and assist via a chat on the side.

• 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.

• Control AI usage: Turn off AI integration for students, enable it only for basic troubleshooting, or leave the full integration - you decide.

• Creating a New Course
  • Create the Course Project
  • Add Teaching Assistants to the Course Project
  • Create the Course File
  • Add Students to the Course
  • What do the Students Get?
  • Reconfigure Student Projects
  • Resend outstanding email invites
• Upgrading Student Projects
  • Students Pay For Upgrades
  • Teacher or Institute Pays for Upgrades
  • Problems with Licenses
  • Adding Capacity
  • Teaching with Compute Servers
  • Charges for Paid LLMs
• Restrict Student Projects
• Course Management
  • Create a New Handout
  • Create a New Assignment
  • Distribute an Assignment
  • Check “Student View”
  • Collect an Assignment
  • Grade an Assignment
  • Return an Assignment Without Grading
  • Export Grades
  • Return an Assignment
• Collaboration
  • Real-time chatrooms
  • Live collaborative editing
  • @-Mention collaborators in chat
  • Shared Project
  • Group Projects
• After the Course Ends
  • Hide or Delete Student Projects
  • Remove License or Upgrades from Student Projects
  • Student Access After Course Ends
• FAQ, Tips and Tricks
  • Delete and undelete students
  • Delete and undelete assignments
  • Delete and undelete handouts
  • Empty trash: remove deleted objects from course file
  • Convert student notebooks to pdf for export
  • Copy missing files to a student project
  • Export student file use
  • Text fields generally support Markdown and LaTeX
  • Making multiple assignment folders quickly
  • Starting up everyone’s project before class
  • Restarting a project
  • Using Git
  • Time Travel Diffs
  • Run Terminal command in all student projects
  • How exactly are Assignments copied to students?
  • Invite Students Without Having Their Email Addresses
  • Verifying Student Activity
  • Moodle integration
  • Change the due date of an assignment
  • Account management, restrictions, and Single-Sign-On
• Peer Grading
• Teaching with nbgrader
  • Purpose of nbgrader
  • CoCalc nbgrader
  • Create an assignment folder
  • Start a Jupyter notebook for the assignment
  • Create questions
  • Generate student version of the notebook
  • Notebook table of contents
  • Distribute the assignment to students
  • Students complete the assignment
  • Collect the assignment
  • Option: Skip entering grades
  • Run nbgrader
  • Do manual grading and add instructor comments
  • Option: Sync grades
  • Return the assignment
• nbgrader for R
  • How to setup nbgrader for CoCalc to work with R
  • How to prepare an assignment in CoCalc for R
• CoCalc for Short Training Sessions
  • After a Session is Done
  • Questions?
• Upgrading Student Projects (legacy version)
  • Teacher or institution pays for upgrades