Managing Your Platform
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Cloud Environments
- How are VMs managed in the Cockpit?
- How do I access a VM?
- How will I provide information to competitors when VMs are set up?
- What are Virtual Machines?
Competition Types
- Can I post a contest in multiple categories?
- Do I have to use all of the contest types to successfully finish a project?
- Does TopCoder have other methods of quality assurance?
- How can I launch a successful contest?
- How should I decide what round structure to use?
- Software Competition Process (Infographic)
- Studio Competition Process (Infographic)
- What are the differences between Software Contest and Studio Contest?
- What are the differences between Studio Contests and Software Contests?
- What is a Conceptualization Contest?
- What is a “competition” in the TopCoder platform context?
- What type of contests can I launch?
Forums
- How do I find the Contest forum?
- How do I find the Project Forum?
- How do I know a member has posted in forum?
- How do I set global Forum Alerts?
- How do I set my forum preferences
- How do I use forums?
- How to monitor Forum Activity?
- What are TopCoder forums?
- What types of forums does TopCoder provide?
- What's the difference between the Project forums and the Contest forums?
General Info
- Can a project be deleted?
- Can I have more than one account?
- Can you change my handle?
- Can you delete my account?
- How do I change my password?
- How do I create a project in the Cockpit?
- How do I pick a secure password?
- How do I register for TopCoder?
- How do I sign up for an account?
- How does the TopCoder community deal with licenses?
- How does TopCoder approach projects?
- How does TopCoder manage projects?
- Member Photos
- TopCoder 101 (Video Series)
- What is a game plan in the context of a project?
- What is a specification (spec) review?
- What is TopCoder cockpit?
- What should I do if I don't see the category I need for my project?
- What should I do if I forgot my password?
- What technology constraints (i.e. development language and deployment platforms) should I think about when deciding whether or not to run a project with TopCoder?
- What type of projects can I launch?
Getting Help
Invoices
Issue and Change Management
- During the deployment phase if problems are found in the final submission, what should I do?
- How can I launch a bug race in TopCoder?
- If I find a bug in the final submission, what should I do?
- What tool is used for version control in TopCoder?
Navigation
- Cockpit Project Information
- Controlling Platform Notifications
- Organizing Projects in Cockpit
- Setting project notifications in Cockpit
- TopCoder Direct – Manage Project Permissions
Permissions
Preparing and Managing Contests
- Canceling a Contest
- Contest Health
- Extending a Contest
- Handling Re-appeals
- How are winners selected in TopCoder?
- How can I launch a successful contest?
- How can I monitor a running contest?
- How do I engage a Copilot?
- How do I know if my contest will get submissions?
- How do I launch a contest in the Cockpit?
- How do I scope a contest?
- How do I write contest specifications?
- How to close a failed contest
- How to create a bug ticket in JIRA and move it to Mod Dash
- How to delete Draft contest
- How to Extend deadline?
- How to increase contest prize (while the contest is running)
- How to increase Prize?
- How to post new version of a contest
- How to repost a contest
- How to require a CCA?
- How will I merge the final submission into the main application branch and validate it works?
- Late Deliverables
- Setting project notifications in Cockpit
- Single and Multi-Round Competitions on Studio
- Software Competition Process (Infographic)
- Studio Competition Process (Infographic)
- Studio Contest Preparation Q & A
- Studio Contest Types
- Studio File Types – Contest Inputs and Deliverables
- Studio Policies for Stock Art and Fonts
- TopCoder Direct – Edit Contest Details
- What can I do once a contest is running?
- What happens if the contest has no submission before the deadline?
- What is a milestone review?
- What is Competition Confidentiality Agreement (CCA)?
- What is the specification review and how will it benefit my contest?
Privacy and Confidentiality
- Does TopCoder provide a legal contract for my project?
- How does TopCoder deal with copyright issues?
- How to require a CCA?
- Privacy of Personal Data on TopCoder platform
- What is Competition Confidentiality Agreement (CCA)?
- What visitor information does TopCoder collect and how is it used?
- Who owns the work done for TopCoder?
Working with Copilots
- How do I know the status of my Copilot posting?
- How do I launch a Copilot contest?
- How do I let Copilots know that I want help?
- How will TopCoder perform the Deployment tasks of a contest?
- How will using a Copilot benefit me?
- I found some copilots that I like. What do I do next?
- If I wanted a website built, how would the involvement of copilot look?
- TopCoder Direct – Communicate with your Copilot
- What are the key tasks that a Copilot performs?
- What do the Copilots do?
- Who Are Copilots?
- Who are the copilots?
