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In this guide we highlight the most important concepts you should be aware of to work in CoCalc effectively. Some of them you may start using right away, others (like TimeTravel and Backups) may save the day later. Many have more detailed documentation pages should you wish to study them deeper. Once you create an account on CoCalc, you should have access to at least one project - either your personal one, or projects you were invited to collaborate on. You can think of “a project” as “a virtual computer”: it has your files and can run various software to interact with them. In CoCalc it is also “a collaboration unit”: you can look at and edit the same files as your collaborators.

In particular, Jupyter Notebooks always have the same state for you and them, including variables in memory and widget settings. How many Projects do you need? As many as collaboration groups you are a part of. In particular, if you are working by yourself, then there is not much benefit to having more than one, although you may prefer to use projects as an organizational tool. If you are enrolled into CoCalc courses, a dedicated project will be created for you automatically and your collaborators on it will be your instructors and TAs. You should have a license applied to every project you are working on.

If you have collaborators, it is possible that they have already taken care of it. CoCalc Licenses are applied to projects, not to users, they determine configuration of that “virtual computer”, regardless of how many people are using it (of course, if there are many heavy users, you may... Without a license your project will work in trial mode with very limited resources. As soon as you confirm that CoCalc seems to be what you need, we strongly encourage you to get a subscription, i.e. an automatically renewing license. If you are not sure what variant to pick - pick the standard one!

All material moved to the more comprehensive CoCalc Manual CoCalc is a cloud-based service that provides infrastructure and services that are useful for running courses based on Jupyter Notebooks. It is used for teaching by Universities around the world. All material moved to the more comprehensive CoCalc Manual For a list of authors see the contributors section. CoCalc has a big collection of shorter and longer videos explaining various elements of the interface and different tasks!

Many of them are embedded throughout this documentation, but you can browse them directly at https://www.youtube.com/@cocalc-cloud/playlists © Copyright 2025, Sagemath, Inc., CC BY-4.0 licensed. Please contact us for Questions and Feedback, Documentation Repository, Privacy Policy and ToS. Start CoCalc – start free, upgrade later! Hello and welcome to CoCalc! You are part of a course … now what?

Contact Your Instructor or a Group Member You are very welcome to take a look at our general Essential Guide section or explore 📺 Quick CoCalc Tutorials and other 📺 videos! Below we highlight the most important features for you as a student. CoCalc is a collaborative cloud environment that supports courses based on interactive resources such as Jupyter Notebooks, the Linux terminal, LaTeX document editors, etc. You can access it from your browser, meaning that you do not need to install anything. All work in CoCalc is done in Projects that work as virtual computers and give you computational resources, a file system for your work, and a preconfigured software environment.

You will have a dedicated project automatically created for each course that you are enrolled into.

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