GitHub Classroom celebrates 3M repos with the launch of Classroom Assistant

GitHub Classroom is a valuable tool for educators, offering a streamlined way to integrate GitHub into their courses by automatically creating student repositories and enabling assignment tracking directly from a dashboard. This platform has been embraced by institutions such as Loyola Marymount, Cal Poly, Rice University, and Johns Hopkins for its ability to incorporate real-world workflows into academic settings. Teachers appreciate its capacity to make GitHub accessible to beginners, as evidenced by the submission of over three million coding assignments. To address the challenge of managing numerous student repositories, the Classroom Assistant application simplifies the process by allowing educators to download multiple student assignments simultaneously to their local machines, thus saving time and enhancing focus on student interaction. The application is available across Windows, Mac, and Linux, further broadening its accessibility for educators.