CoCalc

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.

Basic access, without internet access, is free; however, it is well-worth paying for premium access if you are going to support a class full of students or need internet access. Paying users get more resources and support - vital if you are to rely on it for paying students.

Read more about how how to pay for a course in the CoCalc Wiki.

Some Benefits of CoCalc

• No installation or configuration necessary. Everything Just Works.
• Students can use it on any machine, any operating system, anywhere they like.
• Has built in course-management functionality.
• Allows collaborative editing of notebooks. (It's like Google Docs for Jupyter notebooks.)
• Has built in real-time chatrooms for easy interaction with students and collaborators.

Course material

All material moved to the more comprehensive CoCalc Manual

• Getting Started

• Instructor guide

  • How to create a course
  • Course Management
  • How to interact with students and collaboration
  • Tips and Tricks for teaching

Further resources

• Grading in CoCalc - Blog post from a lecturer who uses CoCalc in teaching
• CoCalc on GitHub - The whole system is open source
• Videos tutorials on course management features in CoCalc
  • Why aren't you teaching with CoCalc?
  • Creating courses in CoCalc
  • Working with course files in CoCalc
  • Creating assignments in CoCalc
  • Grading assignments in CoCalc
  • Peergrading in CoCalc
  • Working with your students in CoCalc

License

This work is licensed under CC-BY 3.0.

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• Legal text of the license

Citing this work

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