Introducing Classroom 50, an open-source alternative to GitHub Classroom

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GitHub Classroom

Hi everyone,

Hello, world! Today, we're releasing the first version of Classroom 50, a free and open-source tool for managing and grading programming assignments via GitHub. Supported by the Fifty Foundation as an open-source alternative to GitHub Classroom, Classroom 50 supports creating assignments, defining auto-graded correctness tests, and managing submissions.

Classroom 50 exists both as a web application (available at https://classroom50.org) and as a command-line tool. For information about getting started with Classroom 50, visit our Wiki, where you'll find guides to both the web interface and the CLI.

The Fifty Foundation will host two online training sessions to teach you how to use Classroom 50 and to answer your questions live. The sessions will take place at the following times:

• Friday, July 24, 1pm-2pm EDT
• Friday, August 14, 1pm-2pm EDT

To sign up to attend one of the training sessions, complete the registration form here.

If you have feature requests or bug reports, you can create an issue or contribute code of your own. And if you have questions about Classroom 50, visit our discussion forum where you can join or start a discussion to talk with the Fifty Foundation's team and with other teachers!

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