CodeHub Classroom

GitHub Classroom launched in July 2013. In August 2026, it was sunset — and a lot of instructors were left scrambling for an alternative. The official recommendations point to "yet-another-online-service" - and your school might not like you sending student information (names, emails, etc.) through unknown online solutions. That was one of my pain points (among others). So I built CodeHub Classroom . 🎉 I teach computer programming at the post-secondary level. My colleagues and I needed to adjust fast. You might be scrambling for alternatives. So I'm throwing my hat in the ring with CodeHub Classroom . What it is CodeHub Classroom is a free desktop app that follows a two step Provision and Release approach to setting up student assignments as GitHub repositories. I'm baking in a lot of the features I hoped GitHub Classroom would eventually build, but never did. The core workflow is simple and deliberately opinionated, based on over a decade of actually using GitHub Classroom day-to-day: Provision — generate each student's private repository from your assignment template. Nobody has access yet. Release — invite each student as a collaborator on their own repository, exactly when you're ready. Why it's different It's built around your whole school term , not one classroom at a time. GitHub Classroom made you manage a separate "classroom" per course section. If you taught three sections of the same course, that meant duplicate setup (and possible copy/paste errors) for shared assignments. CodeHub Classroom shows every course and section you're teaching this term in one dashboard . It runs on your computer — there's no backend. No GitHub App, no shared service account, nothing for GitHub to rate-limit. It just drives the git and GitHub CLI ( gh ) tools you probably already have installed. If you've got the GitHub CLI, you already had everything CodeHub needs. On privacy This one matters to me, so I'll say it plainly: I built CodeHub Classroom so that ALL your classroom d