Overleaf CE

Overleaf Community Edition is a collaborative real-time LaTeX editor designed for scientific writing. It enables students and researchers to write, edit, and compile LaTeX documents collaboratively in the browser, with version tracking and a rich template gallery.

Key Features

• Real-time collaboration: Multiple authors edit the same document simultaneously with live updates.
• Rich LaTeX editor: Syntax highlighting, code completion, reference management, and integrated PDF preview.
• Template gallery: Pre-built templates for theses, journal articles, reports, and presentations.
• Version history: Track changes and revert to previous versions with full diff support.
• Git integration: Sync documents with Git repositories for version control and backup.

Integration with openDesk Edu

Overleaf CE is part of the Collab Services suite and deploys via its upstream Helm chart (ghcr.io/sharelatex). It authenticates through Keycloak using an oauth2-proxy sidecar and is accessible at latex.* under the institution's wildcard DNS.

Learn More

• Official Documentation — Overleaf CE docs and resources