GitHub Campus

Campus affiliates that join JHU GitHub Campus enterprise account benefit from additional features:

• Security control via SSO integration
• ​​​​Unlimited private repositories, and the ability to create “internal” repositories that are viewable only by members of the JHU GHE
• Access to a pool of 50,000 Action minutes per month and 50GB for container registries and other package repositories
• Access to support from the OSPO, such as code repository best practices

Once your new or existing GitHub organization is connected to the JHU Campus enterprise account, you (the owner) have full control over your organization, and are able to:

• ​​​​​​​Create new repositories within your GitHub organization
• Transfer existing repos to your GitHub organization
• Invite Members and collaborators, create groups and teams, and assign permissions

All individuals interested in using GitHub must request and manage their own user accounts – these accounts are not managed by the OSPO or JHU. If you do not have a user account, you can sign up for one via https://github.com/signup. 

When you access an Organization under the JHU GitHub Campus (JHU GHC) umbrella, you will login both to GitHub using your personal account, and then again via JHU Single Sign On (SSO). This two-step process allows you to contribute to JHU GHC Organizations while retaining your existing identity and contributions on GitHub.

You may have more than one GitHub account if you prefer to keep your JHU work separate, but only one GitHub account may be linked to your JHED via SSO.

All members of a JHU GHE Organization will be required to authenticate via JHU SSO. 

People outside of JHU can be added to your GHE organization in two ways:

• As outside collaborators with read/write access to assigned repositories. Outside collaborators cannot be members or owners of organizations, and cannot be added to teams.
• Azure B2B provides a feature allowing organizations to invite external users as Members. Azure B2B accounts can be requested from the OSPO via this form.

GitHub Classroom offers a suite of features such as assignment templates, auto-grading, feedback pull requests, and group assignments. 

Establishing a GitHub Classroom requires having a GitHub Organization. You can request a new organization via this form, or request to become a member of an existing organization by contacting the organization owner. 

GitHub Classroom documentation: https://docs.github.com/en/education/manage-coursework-with-github-classroom/get-started-with-github-classroom

If you are faculty in the Whiting School of Engineering, you can connect your GitHub Classroom with your Canvas roster by following the instructions here. Note that your Organization must be part of the Enterprise for this integration to work. https://support.cmts.jhu.edu/hc/en-us/articles/19824197847181-Connect-GitHub-Classroom-to-your-Canvas-course. 

GitHub Codespaces, development environments hosted in the cloud, can be used with GitHub Classroom. Educators receive a free allowance, estimated to be enough for a class of 50 with 5 assignments per month, on a 2 core machine with 1 Codespace stored per student.

GitHub Codespaces with Classroom Documentation: https://docs.github.com/en/education/manage-coursework-with-github-classroom/integrate-github-classroom-with-an-ide/using-github-codespaces-with-github-classroom

Git, GitHub: Git is an open source version control system which is often used for tracking and combining changes in software code files. Git was originally created by Linus Torvalds, the author of the Linux operating system. GitHub is a web-based platform, owned by Microsoft, which allows users (often software developers) to coordinate their work through the use of Git.

Actions: GitHub Actions are used to run workflows when other events happen in your repository;  for example, a workflow that automatically adds the appropriate labels whenever someone creates a new issue in your repository. GitHub Actions can also be used for continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) to automate build, test, and deployment pipelines. 

GitHub Classroom: GitHub Classroom is a teaching tool that lets educators create and manage digital classrooms and assignments within GitHub. 

GitHub Codespaces: Cloud development environments native to GitHub. 

Organization Member: The default, non-administrative role for people in an organization is the organization member. By default, organization members have a number of permissions, including the ability to create repositories and projects. Membership in JHU GHE organizations is limited to JHU affiliates and users invited by JHU affiliates via Azure B2B. 

Outside Collaborator: An outside collaborator is a person who has access to one or more organization repositories but is not explicitly a member of the organization. Outside collaborators cannot be assigned roles/permissions within an organization.

Organization: An organization in GitHub is the administrative construct surrounding repositories. Organizations in GitHub  typically mirror real-world groups (such as a business, team, school, or lab) that work together on a set of shared projects. They are administered by users and can contain both repositories and teams.

Organization Owner: Organization members that have complete administrative access to the organization.

Repository: A repository is the most basic element of GitHub. They’re easiest to imagine as a project’s folder. A repository contains all of the project files (including documentation), and stores each file’s revision history. Repositories can have multiple collaborators and can be either public or private. A public repository can be viewed by anyone, including people who aren’t GitHub users. Private repositories are only visible to the repository owner and collaborators that the owner has specified. Internal repositories can be viewed by anyone who accesses GitHub through JHU SSO – including outside parties who have been invited to the Enterprise via the Azure B2B method.

User: Anyone with an account on GitHub.com.