Purpose

This document describes how to use the Google Colaboratory platform. Colaboratory is a free Jupyter notebook environment that runs in the cloud.

Prerequisites

  1. You must have a Google account.
  2. You must be signed-in to that account or sign-in when requested.

If you wish to use Penn State’s GSuite for this service, you will need to create a Google account for this purpose as follows:

  1. Visit https://gsuite.psu.edu
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  1. Press the red Launch button.

This will launch the Google sign-in screen.

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  1. Enter your PSU email, e.g., <ACCESS_ID>@psu.edu

The following type of window should appear.

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  1. Choose the “Select the”Organizational G Suite Account"

The PSU web services login window should appear. You may log in as usual.

Note: The system may time-out the first time you do this. The time-out is likely due to the account creation activities that are going on in the background.

Accessing Google Colaboratory

  1. Visit https://colab.research.google.com

If you are not logged in, you should see the following screen:

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https://colab.research.google.com

Note the blue Sign In button in the upper right hand corner.
If you are already logged-in to your Google account, you should see the following screen:

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https://colab.research.google.com