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Overleaf at KIT - Collaborative work with LaTeX
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The easy-to-use, collaborative, online LaTeX editor Overleaf is available to all KIT employees and students. This software is a cloud service at overleaf.com. A portal has been set up for the KIT: www.overleaf.com/edu/kit
- Contact:servicedesk@scc.kit.edu
Services not included
Support services for using the portal and the online editor must be requested from the provider overleaf.com.
Organizational requirements
Access to the KIT Overleaf Portal is possible for KIT employees and students using their KIT account. Guests and partner accounts are not authorized to use the Overleaf Portal.
Important note
As soon as a person leaves KIT due to termination of contract or de-registration from KIT, this person no longer has a license for Overleaf and can no longer log in to the Overleaf portal despite a possibly still valid KIT account.
Overleaf - Online LaTeX Editor
The easy-to-use, collaborative, online LaTeX editor Overleaf is available to all KIT employees and students in the KIT Overleaf Portal.
Through a connection to the KIT Shibboleth Identity Provider (SSO integration), the use of the KIT Overleaf portal is possible by logging in with the KIT account.
Overleaf allows collaborative editing of documents with LaTeX directly, without further installations of software, via any web browser!
Templates in the template gallery make it easy to get started with LaTeX and all LaTeX features like inserting images, equations or bibliographies are supported by Overleaf.
Collaboration is done via only one master version for each document, which can be accessed by anyone authorized.
Multiple people can work on a document at the same time, and other people's changes are displayed directly.
The document history shows which changes were added or removed and by whom. Furthermore, the return to previous versions is possible in a simple way.