Virus or not, hand in your homework - Github launchers teaching tools for schools

[williamcll]

Github's teaching tools are now globally available, allowing schools to manage computing students easier.

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GitHub  today announced new features for GitHub Classroom, its collection of tools for helping computer science teachers assign and evaluate coding exercises, as well as a new set of free tools for teachers. The first of these is autograding, which does exactly what the name promises. Teachers can now add tests to their workflows that automatically test assignments and grade them accordingly. These tests then run automatically on every student repository. More importantly, though, teachers can also provide specific feedback with in-line feedback and automatic pull requests.

Autograding, of course, will save teachers quite a bit of time. At the same time, GitHub is also launching the Teacher Toolbox, a set of free tools for teachers that includes access to a number of development tools, tutorials, domain names and more. Among these free services are .TECH domain names, access to BrowserStack for on-device testing and the Termius SSH client. They also get free access to tools from Arduino. In total, there are currently 35 tools and services available through the toolbox. It’s worth noting that these tools are mostly different from those available in the GitHub Student Developer Pack, which also offers free and discounted access to services like Bitnami, Figure Eight, Namecheap and others (including, of course, GitHub itself).

Source: https://techcrunch.com/2020/03/12/github-launches-new-tools-for-teachers-including-autograding/

https://classroom.github.com/

Thoughts: Useful but getting staff to understand and implement them into class will still take time.

[kelvinhall05]

My school firewalls Github and is so far back on technology that I wouldn't be surprised if they tried to fax assignments to everyone in the district.

[Ashleyyyy]

2 hours ago, kelvinhall05 said:

My school firewalls Github

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why

[Dabombinable]

Or teachers could just do standard long distance education. Eg. School of the Air (my Mum is a teacher, and the only one at her work that has done it - radios FTW).

[ARikozuM]

7 hours ago, Twilight said:

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why

Pr0n. Or some sh#t. 

[Guest willies leg]

As a tech dad I've been spending a lot of time with my 2 kids since there's no school. I'll tell you what, they've learned more from me than they have all year in school including investing (set up a game on marketwatch), tech (we set up a raspberry pi I had laying around), and my 3d printer. Played around with Blender too. It's amazing to see what they can do! Loving it!

[Gegger]

7 hours ago, Twilight said:

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why

i know some sites that censor "github" for "pr0n"

 

also

[Letgomyleghoe]

15 hours ago, Twilight said:

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why

So yoy can download software to root the machines/ break through administrator controls

[Steven1983]

How about Chinese DingTalk？(中国钉钉)  I'm really sorry if I was ky...。。。

[Semper]

16 hours ago, Twilight said:

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why

There's any number of justifications for things the average person would find asinine.
Both the universities I attended attempted to block sites like Quizlet because "rampant cheating" took place (of which I will admit, you can [and I did] find complete and accurate assessment answers for a number of classes), showing a complete lack of general awareness that mobile data, or an internet connection literally anywhere else subverts that meaningless effort to block a genuinely useful tool.

[spartaman64]

On 3/29/2020 at 9:28 AM, Twilight said:

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why

well my high school IT company blocked their own website for gambling 

[Ashleyyyy]

58 minutes ago, spartaman64 said:

well my high school IT company blocked their own website for gambling 

big brain

[ARikozuM]

On 4/2/2020 at 5:29 PM, CircleTech said:

My school blocked newegg for pornography. Whatever software we were using was even nice enough to tell us the kind of porn. It was "Japanese porn".

That... might be a flag created for the IT team to umm... deal with...