cd Mydocuments\Git repos
git clone --bare https://github.com/profwpollock/COP-2805-template.git

rem create new repo on GitHub named "COP-2805-YYYY", where "YYYY" is the year.
rem copy URL of new repo.

git push --mirror https://github.com/profwpollock/COP-2805-YYYY.git

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Set up student private repos:

https://education.github.com/discount_requests/new

Organization: HCC-COP2805  (possibly add year?)

Request sufficient for each student + each group (so 1.33 * students * #projects).

Approval takes about a week or two.

Then, set up that organization in "Github classroom".  You as instructor, and
admin of the organization, specify the name of the assignment, and a
optionally, a repo you own that has any "instructor starter code" in it.
You can also add other admins (co instructors, mentors, TAs, etc.)

Then, you get a URL that you give to the students.  That URL, when your
students click it, takes them to a page that sets up a private repo for
that student that you, as instructor, have admin permission to. The URL
name has the project name with student name as a suffix.

Can also setup teams: https://github.com/orgs/HCC-COP2805/teams

You have a page with a unified view of all the student repos for the
project.

URLs:
https://github.com/blog/2055-teachers-manage-your-courses-with-classroom-for-github
https://classroom.github.com/
https://education.github.com/guide
https://education.github.com/

https://github.com/education/classroom

Students are also eligible for a free micro account (up to 5 private
repositories) while they're students (see the GitHub entry on this page:
https://education.github.com/pack). So, you can have students create their
own private repo for a class project, and then invite collaborators
(including you).

BitBucket (as an alternative):

(As far as I understand, .edu addresses are automatically approved for
unlimited free private (and public, naturally) repositories with
Bitbucket. At least, I've been using it with students for a few years
now, and we've had no issues in terms of access, limits, etc.

https://bitbucket.org/

I consider them, for educational purposes, to be equivalent to Github.
And practically speaking, I don't find one particularly better than
the other, but then, I only work with small repositories.)