Sync assignment updates to every student's GitHub repository

Pushes corrections or updates from your master assignment to every student's repo at once.

How the work actually flows

A straight line. Runs once per each student repository.

Pattern: Sequence (1) ยท Multiple Instances with a priori Design-Time Knowledge (13)

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Build size
Advanced

A larger build with multiple systems, AI reasoning, and custom rules.

Business functions
General Automation
Connects
GitHub

The problem it solves

When you fix a mistake in a coding assignment after students have already started, you have no easy way to get the update to everyone. Manually opening dozens of student repositories to make the same change one by one wastes hours you don't have.

Who it fits

Instructors and teaching assistants running coding courses through GitHub Classroom.

How it works

  1. You start the process and specify which assignment to update
  2. The system finds every student who accepted that assignment
  3. It opens a pull request on each student's repository with the update
  4. If you choose, it merges the pull request automatically
What you get

Assignment updates pushed to every student repo

You get every student's repository updated with your latest assignment changes through one coordinated push across the whole class.

What you get

An update or correction applied to every student's repository, with a record of what changed.

What you need

A GitHub account with classroom and repository access.

We can build this. But should you?

The hard question is not how to build it. It is whether this is the right thing to build first.

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