JSjsmith45·Apr 15, 2020
It was open source, but they have now closed it off, although the old source archive is still available.
See https://github.com/education/classroom/commit/a824a057b939c0...
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GitHub Classroom automates repository creation and access control, making it easy for teachers to distribute starter code and collect assignments on GitHub.
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What it is
GitHub Classroom automates repository creation and access control, making it easy for teachers to distribute starter code and collect assignments on GitHub.
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Where it is used
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Observed mentions: 2015-09-22 20:57:15 UTC to 2020-04-15 16:44:17 UTC.
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
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| 2015 | 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 2016 | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2017 | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2018 | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2019 | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2020 | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
What Hacker News says
4 sourcesWould love to hear more about your use case if it works for you. Definitely leave some feedback in an issue on the open source repository: https://github.com/education/classroom/issues/new
In Classroom for GitHubThanks for the response! Related to (1), the issue was more that when a _student_ visits an assignment page, they get the same big permission list as an instructor; it makes sense that instructors might need a plethora of permissions. Is that necessary for students?
Issue for (3) reported here: https://github.com/education/classroom/issues/250
In Classroom for GitHub1. We're working with the OAuth permission model that exists today, but I've passed along your feedback to our platform team. The generic use case for Classroom for GitHub is to create a new organization to use for student assignments and use Classroom for GitHub to manage that organization. If / when you decide to stop using Classroom for GitHub you can remove your organization and it will clean up after itself.
2. GitHub Enterprise is not supported, but others have requested this feature: https://github.com/education/classroom/issues/240
3. I'm having a hard time understanding your situation, but would appreciate it if you could file an issue at https://github.com/education/classroom/issues/new, can't promise that it will be fixed immediately, but need to gather feedback like this.
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