Intro to Overleaf Commons

This documentation is for admins of Overleaf Commons subscriptions.

Not an admin? You can get help using Overleaf in our User docs.

What is Overleaf Commons?

Overleaf Commons allows universities and organizations to provide access to Overleaf premium features across an entire campus or company, or to specific groups.

An Overleaf Commons subscription includes a custom portal, automatic validation and upgrade of eligible users, and an administrator hub and metrics to allow institutions to monitor the usage of their Commons subscription.

Enrollment in an Overleaf Commons subscription happens when a user confirms their institutional affiliation and eligibility. For Commons subscriptions that use single sign-on enrollment, the eligibility of authorized users is checked using entitlement data that is sent to Overleaf when the user logs in with SSO. For domain-based enrollment, users are added to the subscription when they confirm an institutional email address that has an entitled institutional domain.

Getting Overleaf Commons

Overleaf Commons is already available at many leading institutions and organizations. If your organization doesn't have an Overleaf Commons subscription but would like one, please contact us.

If you have further technical questions that aren't answered on these pages, please contact Overleaf Support.