Classroom for Github

[atombaby]

Github just announced this:

https://github.com/blog/2055-teachers-manage-your-courses-with-classroom-for-github

Classroom for GitHub automates repository creation and access control, making it easy to distribute starter code and collect assignments on GitHub.

Might be useful- I'm definitely considering for the intro courses I'm teaching. Will update this issue as I learn more.

[metasoarous]

Awesome! Thanks for the tip! I'll definitely check it out.

On Wed, Sep 23, 2015, 10:54 PM Michael Gutteridge notifications@github.com
wrote:

Github just announced this:

https://github.com/blog/2055-teachers-manage-your-courses-with-classroom-for-github

Classroom for GitHub automates repository creation and access control,
making it easy to distribute starter code and collect assignments on GitHub.

Might be useful- I'm definitely considering for the intro courses I'm
teaching. Will update this issue as I learn more.

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[metasoarous]

@matsen: I've been looking into this a bit. Are you familiar with it? It seems like the only reason to do this would be if we wanted to have a way of accepting homework responses.

Pros:

• I'm not sure how many students are actually going through the homework or how far they're getting. Thinking someone would be reviewing them might add motivation.
• We'd be able to see how far folks are getting with the homework, instead of just guessing.
• We might be able to catch bad practices and suggest alternative solutions.
• Would add clarity about what the "starting point" for each exercise is (each problem references a "starter" repo they clone, modify, and then submit).
• Would force more basic git experience as a matter of course.

Cons:

• Extra work.
• Might be off-putting to people.
• Adds conceptual overhead.

I think for this to work, we should move the git class (class4) to class3. That way we could have the shell scripting assignments submitted this way. But that might actually be a nice flow.

Thoughts?

[matsen]

Well, that might make for a nice survey question, wouldn't it!