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🚀 Teaching with GitHub Copilot: A Faculty Starter Kit

Welcome to the Copilot Classroom Starter Kit – a curated collection of real-world activities, templates, and resources I use in my own web development classes to teach with GitHub Copilot.

👩‍🏫 Whether you’re just getting started or ready to expand your use of AI in the classroom, this repo has you covered!


📁 What’s Inside

Folder Description
01_Getting_Started Setup guide and a beginner script to test Copilot
02_Guided_Prompts Comment prompts and reflection activities
03_Pair_Programming_Exercises Copilot-friendly challenges for student pairs
04_Bug_Fix_Activities Broken code examples for debugging practice
05_Assignment_Templates Templates for labs, rubrics, and reflections
06_Classroom_Discussion_Tools Prompts for ethical discussion and interviews

🛠️ How to Use This Repo

  1. Clone or download the repo to your local machine
  2. Explore the folders based on your teaching goals:
    • Want a Copilot warm-up? Try Guided Prompts
    • Ready for student pair work? Head to Pair Programming
    • Looking to raise digital ethics questions? See Classroom Discussion
  3. Adapt any file to fit your students and context
  4. Use GitHub Pages for a visual overview (if enabled)

🤝 Want to Contribute?

If you’re an educator or developer who’s exploring Copilot in the classroom, I’d love for you to add your ideas!
See CONTRIBUTING.md for how to share activities, prompts, or strategies.

Together, we can help make AI a meaningful tool for learning—one line of code at a time 💬✨


📜 License

MIT – use, remix, and share freely with attribution.

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A collection of real-world activities, prompts, and strategies I use in my own coding and programming classes to teach with GitHub Copilot. Designed for educators—clone, adapt, and implement in your own courses.

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