Can the community Dicussions for GitHub Education be divided from classroom?

[famosab]

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The community Diskussion forum is quite useful. As a teacher, I wish that the whole functionality of GitHub classroom was divided from the general discussion about GitHub Education. Given the fact that there is no repository to be found for the whole classroom implementation its really hard to get more information on other people having similar problems and also quickly realizing that there are new topics coming up regarding classroom. I know that there is a label but for me the whole classroom functionality is sort of a different topic than GitHub Education (which is often about benefits and so on).

[samus-aran]

Hi @famosab 👋

We do have a private repo for verified Educators that has a category specifically to GitHub classroom. I can see that you are verified as a student and probably why you are unable to see it. If you wish to verify as a teacher let me know and you will be asked to re-verify via the application page.

In regards to making Classroom conversations more visible, yes we do heavily use labels. "Classroom" is a combination of bugs, questions, etc. You make a valid point that perhaps these discussions around Classroom can be better categorised. I'll take this back to the internal team and see how we can make it easier for the community to identify these conversational topics versus feature updates and bug reporting.

Your feedback is extremely appreciated 👍

[famosab]

Sounds good!
Regarding the verification: I was wondering how to verifiy as I am both a (PhD) student and teach classes. Most of the time I act more as a student than a teacher but for the classes where I do teach having access to the described repo would be fantastic.