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Unlocking inclusive design: how Primer's color system is making GitHub.com more inclusive
Over 100 million developers around the world come to GitHub to build software. Primer, GitHub’s open source design system, is responsible for creating inclusive, responsive and efficient experiences for a diverse range of users. The Primer team aims to enable all user interface (UI) components to be built leveraging Primer. At Primer’s foundation is our color system, a way of defining and applying consistent colors across the Primer UI components and themes.
How we work: inclusive retrospectives for the GitHub Accessibility leadership team
Retrospectives are essential for a team’s ongoing growth and achievement, but they can be exclusionary for team members with disabilities due to the inaccessibility of most retrospective tools. These tools often depend on drag-and-drop functionality, images, color coding, and undefined digital spaces with no clear headings or navigational anchors. To ensure everyone can actively participate, the GitHub Accessibility leadership team uses tools and processes that fully engage every team member.
Building a more inclusive GitHub Global Campus
GitHub is the home for all developers, a place where we come together to learn, collaborate, and ship code. At GitHub Education, our goal is to welcome students and teachers into that home and provide them with the skills and leading industry tools to complete their academic journey, from classroom engagement to career readiness. We believe every student and teacher deserves the same access to our offerings.
Introducing the new Campus Advisors program
GitHub Campus Advisors are teachers who are enthusiastic about teaching with Git and GitHub. Whether or not they come from a technical background, they’re deeply passionate about technology and sharing what they know with others. Day to day, Campus Advisors introduce version control to students in all fields, both technical and otherwise. That’s because understanding version control is an essential skill, whether you’re a STEM professional yourself or interacting with one.
Code in the browser with GitHub Classroom
A familiar scenario for teachers: students need to run your starter code for an assignment, but software conflicts and varying devices get in the way. Whether they’re in your classroom or working from their homes, you want all of your students to successfully complete their assignments, but first, you’ll have to help them navigate their different devices and setups.
Set up your digital classroom with GitHub Classroom
Many teachers are suddenly faced with learning how to teach remotely for the first time. We know you’re concerned with making sure your students still receive the education they deserve. With recent changes to school schedules, we’re actively working with you—the educators—to keep your curriculum going remotely. We can help make online coding assignments manageable through automated distribution, insight into student participation, progress checking, and autograded assignments.
Introducing autograding for GitHub Classroom and the GitHub Teacher Toolbox
In our seven years, many teachers reached out to us about how they can use tools more efficiently so they can spend more time educating. We want to continue to be a key element in your computer science programs. With your feedback, the GitHub Education team is excited to release the latest features to help teachers bring industry-standard tools into their classrooms. Now, teachers can use GitHub Classroom with autograding to save time by automating parts of the grading process.
Survey results: Better computer science learning through hackathons
The most important thing you can teach your students is how to learn more on their own. Your students start the semester at varying technical levels, and computer science concepts can be difficult to grasp. You won’t be able to fit everything you’d like to teach in the short time you have with them. With this in mind, you need a way to boost learning and take your classroom from studying syntax to solving real problems with code. That’s where hackathons can help.
Show your peers how to collaborate with GitHub
The start of a new school year means it will soon be time to bring your campus community back together to learn and work on coding projects—and participate in a new fall hackathon season. Timing is important and you want to make sure to start the semester off right with an event. But who has time to plan and create event content when you’re busy with new classes? Major League Hacking (MLH) can help just in time for the upcoming hackathon season.
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