CoCalc for Students and Teachers

CoCalc Value for Students and Teachers

Students

• Software is already installed. Dozens of programming languages, thousands of libraries and packages.
• Unified place of work. Switch computers without pausing to install software or move your work to another system.
• Consistent coding environment. Time spent mastering the ecosystem is an investment for other courses, not a one-time throw-away effort.
• Interactive notebooks. Use Sage worksheets and Jupyter notebooks to create an executable record of each study session. Make the most of your time when reviewing your work later.
• Your personal study archive. Your work remains accessible and usable in CoCalc long after the course is over.
• Extras:
• Time travel (detailed edit history)
• Backups
• Real time collaboration & chat
• Online publishing (make selected files public)

Teachers

• Managed platform. Why waste TA / grad student time setting up, maintaining, backing up and securing a flaky platform? Instead, 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 has been used for teaching since 2013 in over 200 courses by tens of thousands of students.
• Open source. CoCalc itself and everything it runs is 100% open-source. Say good-bye to vendor lock-in, hidden licensing fees, and proprietary black boxes.