Automatically create team from students

[khatchad]

I would like to have a team automatically created consisting of the students in my course. Specifically, when they accept an invite into the organization, they should automatically be added to a team called "students."

[dinever]

Hi @khatchad,

What do you want to achieve by having all students added to a team?

The reason we are not adding all students to the organization is about the default permission level. The default permission level for GitHub organization members is read, which means students can see each other's private repo. However, we'd prefer it to be none as we don't really want students to have read access to everything in the orgnization, and there is no API for us to modify the default permission level so we have to ask teachers to set it manually, which is not very ideal.

Related: #517

[khatchad]

Hi @dinever,

What do you want to achieve by having all students added to a team?

I want to share solutions with the students but I do not want to make the solution public. As such, I'd like to give read-only access to such repos to the student team.

The reason we are not adding all students to the organization is about the default permission level. The default permission level for GitHub organization members is read, which means students can see each other's private repo.

Is it possible to change that level? Because, I currently have all students in a student team as part of the org and they cannot see each others repos by default.

However, we'd prefer it to be none as we don't really want students to have read access to everything in the orgnization, and there is no API for us to modify the default permission level so we have to ask teachers to set it manually, which is not very ideal.

Ah, so perhaps I set it to none. I can't remember, but currently the org is setup correctly. The only problem was that I needed to create the student team manually.

[johndbritton]

I want to share solutions with the students but I do not want to make the solution public. As such, I'd like to give read-only access to such repos to the student team.

We've heard this feature request before and hope to offer a solution in Classroom. You may want to subscribe to https://github.com/education/classroom/issues/527 for updates.

Is it possible to change that level? Because, I currently have all students in a student team as part of the org and they cannot see each others repos by default.

Yes, but the setting is not currently available via the GitHub API and not available to Classroom to manage for you. You can manually change the setting at https://github.com/organizations/#{your_organization_login}/settings/member_privileges under the "Default repository permission" section.

[johndbritton]

@khatchad Does #527 cover your use case sufficiently? I think that feature will solve your problem, even if the implementation isn't that we create a students team in your organization.

If so, we can close this issue. Otherwise, it'd be helpful if you could provide some more details around why creating a students team is the preferred solution for you.

[khatchad]

@johndbritton Yes, I think that #527 covers this request. I think that a students team would be useful to share multiple solutions.

[johndbritton]

Yes, I think that #527 covers this request. I think that a students team would be useful to share multiple solutions.

Closing this in favor of #527, thanks for the feedback @khatchad.