Structure the course
Organize modules, lessons, pages, resources, exercise sets, and assignments in one course workspace.
Independent GitHub Classroom alternative
Keep student code in GitHub. Run the course in Codington.
Codington gives software development teachers course structure, browser exercises, managed private GitHub repositories, Actions status, review, feedback, and grades in one focused workspace.
Important: Managed assignments require the Codington Classroom GitHub App to be installed on the school organization with access to all repositories. Codington does not reproduce every GitHub Classroom automation.
Founder-assisted conversations only. No student data is needed for the first call.
A focused transition
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Course
Modules, lessons, resources, and schedule
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Practice
TypeScript exercises with immediate checks
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GitHub work
Public repository, branch, and commit submissions
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Teacher flow
Review, feedback, progress, and grades
GitHub Classroom transition
Export your Classroom data before 28 August 2026.
GitHub says the Classroom website will be decommissioned on 28 August. Existing repositories and organizations remain, but the Classroom management data should be exported separately.
Codington today
One workflow for course content, practice, and GitHub work.
Codington is deliberately narrower than a general-purpose LMS. It is built around the work software development teachers do with lessons, exercises, repositories, submissions, and feedback.
Collect GitHub work
Create a private, school-owned repository for each student from a public GitHub template and follow its checks in Codington.
Review and respond
Review repository submissions, leave feedback, record grades, and export the gradebook as CSV.
See course progress
See invitations, progress, submission state, late work, reviews, and grades from the teacher workspace.
Practice in the browser
Use focused TypeScript exercises with immediate checks alongside project and repository assignments.
Work as a school
Run a role-based school workspace with English and Swedish interfaces for admins, teachers, and students.
Real product views
See the workflow before booking a call.
These views come from the current Codington product and its public sample workspace. The demo uses fictional course data.
Course builder
Build a course from lessons, exercises, workshops, and GitHub assignments.
Role-based workspace
Explore the administrator, teacher, and student views without creating an account.
Migration approach
Start with one real course, not a platform-wide promise.
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Export your Classroom data
Preserve the available Classroom data before the service closes. Keep your existing repositories and organizations in GitHub.
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Map one real course
Review the course structure, roster, assignments, repository rules, feedback, and grading workflow with Codington.
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Set up a focused pilot
Create the course workspace, import the roster, configure the work, and rehearse the flow with test accounts.
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Run and learn
Students work in Codington and GitHub while teachers track submissions, review work, and record feedback.
Honest product boundary
Know what fits before investing migration time.
Codington is useful today, but it is not a feature-for-feature clone of GitHub Classroom. A first conversation should confirm whether the current boundary works for your course.
Available today
- School workspaces with admin, teacher, and student roles
- Programs, courses, modules, lessons, resources, and schedules
- TypeScript exercise sets with immediate browser feedback
- Managed GitHub assignments created from public template repositories
- Private, school-owned repositories with individual student access
- GitHub Actions status for running, passed, and failed checks
- Public GitHub repository link submissions when managed repositories are not needed
- Branch, commit, push time, resubmission, and late-state details
- Teacher review, written feedback, grades, and grade CSV export
- Manual roster entry and CSV roster import
- A public role-switching demo
Not yet available
- Group assignments or team repository creation
- Pull-request-based feedback workflows
- Full GitHub Classroom data import
- Rubric or test-score autograding managed by Codington
- Canvas/LTI, SIS, or SSO/SAML integration
Likely a good fit
You teach software development, want course and review tools around GitHub, and can install the GitHub App on a school or test organization.
Not a fit yet
You cannot install an organization GitHub App with repository access, or you require group assignments, LTI, or full managed autograding from day one.
Common questions
Evaluate Codington without guessing.
Does Codington replace everything in GitHub Classroom?
No. Codington can create individual private student repositories from templates and show GitHub Actions status alongside the course, review, feedback, and grading workflow. It does not yet create team repositories or provide full GitHub Classroom import and autograding parity.
Do students still use GitHub?
Yes. Each student connects their GitHub account. Codington creates a private assignment repository in the school organization, gives the student access, and follows its branch, commits, pushes, and GitHub Actions checks.
What happens to existing Classroom repositories?
GitHub says existing repositories, organizations, and user accounts are not affected by the Classroom website shutdown. Export the Classroom management data separately using GitHub's official guidance.
Can Codington use private student repositories?
Yes. With Codington Classroom installed on the school’s GitHub organization, Codington creates a private, school-owned repository for each student from the assignment template.
Is Codington an official GitHub partner?
No. Codington is an independent product from Foggy Media AB and is not affiliated with or endorsed by GitHub.
Can I buy it online now?
Codington is currently offering founder-assisted migration conversations and carefully scoped pilots. Open self-service subscriptions will follow only after the workflow has been validated with real courses.
Start with your real course workflow.
Share how you used GitHub Classroom and what your next course needs. The first conversation is about fit—not uploading student data or committing to a subscription.
Codington is an independent product from Foggy Media AB and is not affiliated with or endorsed by GitHub.