What is the process for GitHub assignment creation?

Login to your GitHub

1. Create new organization

1. Click on the + at the upper-right corner of your page and choose a new organization.
2. Choose the option, join for free, enter a valid organization name of your choice, email, select my account, and click on next.
3. Click on skip, you can continue to enter your details later.

2. Creating new repository

• Click on the + at the upper-right corner of your page and choose a new repository.
• Under the Owner drop-down, select the organization that you have created and give a valid repository name.
• Choose private and click on create repository.
• Copy the two statements under “…or push an existing repository from the command line” to the notepad.
• Go to the settings tab and enable template repository.

Access GitHub classroom here

3. Creating classroom

• Click on new classroom. If you don’t find the organization you created, click on grant us access.
• Under organization access, click on the grant shown beside the organization.
• Refresh the classroom page and choose the organization.
• You may change the name of the classroom or click on it to continue.
• Copy the link of the classroom, paste it in a notepad for later use, and click on continue.
• Skip without choosing any learning management tools.
• Add the students by entering their GitHub ids.

4. Adding files to the repository

• Create a folder with all the necessary files to be pushed into the repository.
• Open a terminal from VSCode, go to the created folder, and perform the following steps:
  • git init
  • git status
  • git add .
  • git status
  • git commit -m “Any message”
  • Enter the two statements from the notepad(git remote add and git push)
• Refresh the repository page to see the pushed files.

5. Creating an assignment in GitHub classroom

• Click on “create your first assignment”.

• Enter the title starting with Assign- and followed by a number (Ex: Assign-02), and click on continue.

• Click on select a repository and type the repository name created in GitHub and choose it.

• Select the template repository and click on continue.

• Under Add Autograding tests, click on Add test and choose “run python”.

• For each file in your repository, perform the following steps:

  • Enter the program file name in the test name field.
  • Clear setup command field.
  • Enter the program file name in the test name field.
  • Enter

    python3 filename.py

    in the run command field.
  • Enter the points for the program (optional).
  • Save the test case and click on create an assignment.

• Share the assignment link with the students.