Guides for GitHub Education

Get started with GitHub

Teachers, students, and researchers can use tools from GitHub to enrich a software development curriculum and develop real-world collaboration skills.

• Creating an account on GitHub
• Git and GitHub quickstart

Applying for GitHub Education

For students:

• About GitHub Education for students
• Apply to GitHub Education as a student

For teachers:

• About GitHub Education for teachers
• Apply to GitHub Education as a teacher

Run a software development course with GitHub

Administer a classroom, assign and review work from your students, and teach the new generation of software developers with GitHub Classroom.

• About GitHub Education for teachers
• Manage classrooms
• About assignments
• Use the Git and GitHub starter assignment
• Create an individual assignment
• Create a group assignment
• Create an assignment from a template repository
• Monitor students' progress with the assignment overview page
• Leave feedback with pull requests
• Use autograding

Learn to develop software

Incorporate GitHub into your education, and use the same tools as the professionals.

• Git and GitHub learning resources
• GitHub Education for students
• Try GitHub Desktop
• Try GitHub CLI

Contribute to the community

Participate in the community, get training from GitHub, and learn or teach new skills.

• Education Community
• About GitHub Education for students
• About GitHub Campus Experts
• Applying to be a GitHub Campus Expert
• Contribute with GitHub Community Exchange