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GitHub Classroom automates repository creation and access control, making it easy for teachers to distribute starter code and collect assignments on GitHub.
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Private sandbox repos not adding student as collaborator #557

Closed cswiercz closed 8 years ago

cswiercz commented 8 years ago

Using the sandbox approach, on occasion when a sandboxed / private repo is created for a student using a template the repo does not assign the student as a collaborator and, therefore, they do not have access.

The organization in question is https://github.com/uwhpsc-2016 and the template used for the assignment is https://github.com/uwhpsc-2016/homework1 .

This usually is the case when I have to log out of classrooms and log back in because...reasons. Sometimes the student's repo ends up being created as a result. Sometimes not. And sometimes with incorrect permissions.

johndbritton commented 8 years ago

This is a known issue, documented here: https://github.com/education/classroom/issues/445

We're actively working on a solution, but we're limited by the GitHub API. The workaround is to have all of the teachers log out and log back in at https://classroom.github.com.

This is caused by a teacher trying out the invitation flow and giving Classroom a reduced scope authentication token. When that happens, we're no longer able to add students to your repositories for you.