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, public repository submissions, review, feedback, and grades in one focused workspace.
Important: Codington currently works with public GitHub repositories. It does not yet create repositories, access private repositories, or 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
Students submit a public repository URL, branch, and commit so the work stays connected to GitHub.
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
- Assignments with public GitHub repository submissions
- 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
- Automatic repository or GitHub organization provisioning
- Access to private student repositories
- Group assignments or team repository creation
- Pull-request-based feedback workflows
- Full GitHub Classroom data import
- Production 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 pilot with public repositories.
Not a fit yet
You require private repositories, automatic repo creation, 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 covers the course, assignment, submission, review, feedback, grade, and browser-practice workflow described on this page. It does not yet provision repositories, access private repositories, create teams, or provide full GitHub Classroom import and autograding parity.
Do students still use GitHub?
Yes. For repository assignments, students work in GitHub and submit the public repository URL to Codington. Codington records the branch and commit details used for the submission.
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?
Not today. The current pilot workflow requires public repositories. If private repositories are essential, say so in the first conversation so the fit is clear before any migration work begins.
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.