Overleaf for student reports
August 26, 2022

Overleaf for student reports

Jeanette Ærengren | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Overleaf

As students working in groups, we like to use Overleaf to write our project reports. The fact that you can work with several people on the same document at the same time just works really well for us. Together with the fact that you can see the changes right away is just really useful for our group work.
  • Teamwork
  • Organizing
  • Reliable
  • New user friendliness
  • More concise error messages
  • Layout
  • Live updating document
  • Being able to have several people writing at once in the same document
  • Being in full control of the layout of the document
  • Easier teamwork
  • Better looking reports
  • Better overview over document
Alongside Overleaf, we have tried using Microsoft Word and Google Docs to write reports. While they all let you write in the same document at once, Overleaf just works better for us. Microsoft Word locks the paragraph someone else is working on to avoid others messing with it before the original writer is done. However, it is often slow to open those paragraphs up for others to edit. Google Docs is the hardest one of them to make a good layout on, though with the app, it can be good for proofreading on the go.

Do you think Overleaf delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Overleaf's feature set?

Yes

Did Overleaf live up to sales and marketing promises?

I wasn't involved with the selection/purchase process

Did implementation of Overleaf go as expected?

I wasn't involved with the implementation phase

Would you buy Overleaf again?

Yes

Overleaf is good to use in a lot of scenarios where something is to be written as a group. However, I believe that it is only good up to a certain amount of people working on the document at once. While I am unsure when it becomes too much, I got no doubt that there is a limit for when it is that good. Though normally, our group size of up to six people has been fine to work with in Overleaf.