Docs, Quickstarts, Guides

• Quickstart for GitHub Educators
• GitHub Education for Teachers
• Skills
• EDU Resource Guide
• Educator & Classroom FAQ
• Good First Issues
• Open Source Guides

Certifications

Getting GitHub certified is a resounding endorsement that validates your skills, credibility, trust, and knowledge of the technologies and developer tools that are used by more than 100 million developers worldwide.

• All Certifications.
• GitHub Foundations, pdf study guide
• GitHub Actions, pdf study guide
• GitHub Advanced Security, pdf study guide
• GitHub Administration, pdf study guide
• GitHub Copilot, pdf study guide

Courses

• Intro to VS Code for Education
• Mastering GitHub Copilot for Paired Programming - Course
• Open Source Learning Path (Intro to Open Source, Becoming a Maintainer)
• Intro to Git & GitHub (Roadmap.sh)

Learn about getting free GitHub Enterprise through our Campus program, how you bring GitHub to your campus, Hackathons from an admin's perspective, how researchers use GitHub and helpful curriculum to get started.

• Best Practices for Setting Up Your GitHub Enterprise Account for Schools and Teachers
• All about Classroom

Curriculum

• Intro to GitHub K-12 - Code.org
• Intro to Web Dev for Beginners - Curriculum
• Machine Learning for Beginners - Curriculum
• Arm Education: Educational materials created & produced by Arm Education for use by schools, universities and early career engineers
• CS50: Curriculum, lectures and other resources for Harvard's Computer Science 50 course
• Data8 Guide - Textbooks, lectures, syllabi and a pedagogy guide for UC Berkeley's Foundations of Data Science course.
• Data8 course org and course calendar template.

MakeCode and VSCode Curriculum

• Introduction to Computer Science with Microsoft MakeCode Arcade
• AP Computer Science Principles with Microsoft MakeCode Arcade
• Introduction to Python with Visual Studio Code for Education
• Introduction to Web Development with Visual Studio Code for Education

Sample Workshop Templates

• Click here for sample workshop templates you can leverage to help your community learn how to use GitHub

Campus Program

• GitHub Campus Program - primary webpage
• GitHub Campus Program - About - documentation
• About GitHub Enterprise Cloud
• About GitHub Enterprise Server
• How to add Enterprise Owners
• How to add Organization Admins
• Creating your organization
• GitHub Education for Schools Partner Program Use Agreement
• GitHub General Privacy Statement
• GitHub Security Policies

Research & Researchers

• Learn how to connect your ORCiD to your GitHub profile
• Make your repository citeable with citation files
• Issue a persistent identifier for your repository with Zenodo
• Add your research institution to The Research Organization Registry
• Read The Turin Way Handbook to reproducible, ethical and collaborative data science
• Learn how to build an inclusive culture of open science with NASA TOPS training on Open science
• Learn about Stanford University’s Living Textbook Intiative
• Maintainer Month for Academia

Open Source Program Offices (OSPO)

On behalf of the GitHub OSPO we are sharing our policies, tools, and best practices to guide you through the first 6-12 months of your organization's open source journey.

• GitHub OSPO resources
• Talk Openly Develop Openly
• The OSPO Alliance

Benefits and Resources for Students

The first thing we recommend students do is get verified through GitHub Education. Once verified, they'll have access to student benefits including the Student Developer Pack, free use of Copilot Pro and more. Find resources and opportunities for your students below.

• GitHub Education for students (Docs)
• GitHub Student Developer Pack
• Student Developer Pack Application FAQs & Common Rejection Reasons

Coding resources for students

• Games on GitHub: A list of open source games and game-related projects that can be found on GitHub - old school text adventures, educational games, 8-bit platformers, clones of old arcade games and more.
• From Code.org: Explore activities for ages 5-11 including Hour of Code, Minecraft projects and more.
• From Code.org: Explore learning for ages 11+ including Hour of Code, coding labs and more.

Hackathons on your campus

• A College Admin's Guide to Hackathons
• A High School Admin's Guide to Hackathons

Campus Experts

GitHub Campus Experts are student leaders that strive to build diverse and inclusive spaces to learn skills, share their experiences, and build projects together. GitHub Campus Experts can be found on campuses worldwide.

• Campus Experts Program
• Campus Experts Blog: How to become a Campus Expert

GitHub Education Partner resources

GitHub Education partners with a number of learning focused companies and organizations to support student developers starting their journeys in tech. Explore a few of our partners and how they empower students below.

Major League Hacking (MLH) is the official student hackathon league. Each year, we power over 300 weekend-long invention competitions that inspire innovation, cultivate communities and teach computer science skills to students around the world. If your campus or student group are interested in hosting a hackathon, here are some resources to get you started:

• MLH Hackathons
• Global Hack Week
• MLH Student Hackathon Organizer Guide

Hack Club is a worldwide community of high school hackers. By the students, for the students. We partner with Hack Club to support the next generation of developers all over the world.

• Request free posters for your classroom here.
• Learn how students can start a Hack Club at their school.
• Find inspiration for coding jams, projects and tech workshops for teens.

Microsoft Learn Student Hub Dive into the world of AI with our comprehensive resources and use your creativity and passion to dream up an imaginary destination, then prompt Copilot to create and refine writings and visuals to bring it to life. Explore cloud, AI, and data with challenges and enhance your learning through events and training. Start your journey to becoming the next generation of tech innovators.

• Microsoft student ambassadors Students can join global community of students who are passionate about building AI-driven solutions with Microsoft technology. Accelerate innovation and grow the skills you need to have greater impact in the projects and communities that matter to you.

Codédex is a learn-to-code platform for Gen Z with courses in Python, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, React, Git & GitHub, Command Line, and more. Students and teachers can access many of their resources.

Sign up for June's GitHub Educator Summit

Coming soon: Live trainings for teachers

Events

• GitHub Events
• GitHub Campus Expert events
• Find Hackathons for University students (MLH)
• Find Hackathons for high school students (Hack Club)

Videos

• GitHub for Beginners (YouTube playlist)
• Getting Started with GitHub Classroom (YouTube playlist)
• Codespaces video (15 min to launch)
• Codespaces video (long form, detailed)
• What is GitHub Actions
• Deploy to GitHub Pages with Custom GitHub Actions
• GitHub Actions (in-depth workshop)

Find useful blog posts, student stories, school use cases and more. If you have a use case for GitHub success in your classroom or institution, you can submit it here.

• All Education Blog posts
• GitHub for Beginners (Blog Posts)
• Foundations Cert available for students
• Supporting the next generation of developers
• GitHub Classroom for AP Computer Science at Naperville North High School
• My first semester using GitHub at Rice University
• How CS50 uses GitHub to teach computer science

Copilot Resources

GitHub Copilot is an AI coding assistant that helps you write code faster and with less effort, allowing you to focus more energy on problem solving and collaboration. GitHub Copilot includes a suite of tools across your IDE, GitHub.com and the command line and can support students and teachers in a number of tasks.

• Get code suggestions as you type in your IDE
• Chat with Copilot to ask for help with your code
• Ask Copilot for help using the command line

Accessing Copilot Copilot is now now available for free. With Copilot free you can get started with up to 50 chats per month, up to 2,000 code completions and much more. As a verified teacher, you'll have access to Copilot Pro. GitHub also offers Copilot Business and Copilot Enterprise for organizations.

• Copilot 101: Video Tutorials
• How to use GitHub Copilot: What it can do and real-world examples
• Copilot Chat Cookbook
• Copilot Certification materials
• Intro to GitHub Copilot (Microsoft Learn Modules)
• Getting Started with GitHub Copilot for Azure
• Deploy web apps with help from GitHub Copilot for Azure

AI Research and Use Cases

• How AI code generation works
• Microsoft: Responsible use of artificial intelligence in education
• Commons: Open Educational Resources, Resources for Teaching AI
• How do AI tools impact novice programmers?
• Train the Trainer: Unlocking Generative AI Toolkit
• Unlock generative AI safely and responsibly—classroom toolkit
• Building LATAM’s future tech workforce with AI