Public Beta available — Aug 31, 2026
A local-first desktop app that helps instructors Provision and Release GitHub repositories for their students — no external service required.
GitHub Classroom launched in July 2013 and was sunset in August 2026, leaving instructors and schools scrambling for alternatives — with the official recommendation being to move to yet another online service.
CodeHub Classroom takes a different path. Rather than depend on an external service to create and manage your classroom assignments, you manage them locally, on your own computer.
GitHub Classroom made you manage a separate classroom for every course section. CodeHub Classroom shows every course and section you're teaching this term in one dashboard — no more duplicate data entry for assignments and rosters shared across sections.
CodeHub Classroom is a desktop app with no backend, no GitHub App, and no shared service account to rate-limit. It simply drives the git and GitHub CLI (gh) tools you likely already have installed.
Generate each student's private repository from your assignment template. No one has access yet.
Invite each student as a collaborator on their own repository, exactly when you're ready.
It closely follows the same flow GitHub Classroom used to have — minus the dependency on GitHub's own service.
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CodeHub Classroom is free to use. A one-time-purchase Pro/Plus edition is planned down the road (in the tradition of Beyond Compare) — never a subscription.
The beta isn't code-signed yet, so getting it running is a short manual process — about two minutes, Windows only for now. On first launch, CodeHub checks for git and the GitHub CLI (gh).
Open the GitHub releases page and download the codehub-<version>-beta.zip asset from the newest release, at the top of the list.
Right-click the downloaded .zip and choose Properties, tick Unblock near the bottom, then OK. Do this before extracting, so Windows doesn't flag every file inside.
Right-click the .zip and choose Extract All… into a folder you'll keep it in — not left inside Downloads. Keep the extracted files together.
Open the extracted folder and double-click codehub-Setup-canary.exe. It unpacks CodeHub Classroom and launches it. Keep that .exe next to its .installer folder when you run it.
You might get a Firewall alert when you launch after the first installation (not on upgrades). You can safely Cancel that and proceed.
Do you want to allow public and private networks to access this app?
Windows Defender Firewall has blocked some features of Bun on all public and private networks.
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Allow Bun to communicate on these networks:
What are the risks of allowing an app through a firewall?
What to doClick Cancel. This app uses Bun under the hood, but it doesn't need you to open a door in your firewall.
If Windows SmartScreen shows “Windows protected your PC”, click More info then Run anyway — the beta isn't signed yet. To update later, download the newer ZIP and repeat these steps — Watch the repo so you know when a new build lands.
Beta builds ship straight from the project's GitHub repository. Watch it to be notified the moment a new build is posted, and Star it to help other instructors find CodeHub Classroom while GitHub Classroom winds down.
On the repo, use Watch → Custom → Releases for release-only email notifications.
The public beta is here — download it and get your next school term set up.
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