Step 3: Add it to your assignment

Students get GrillMyCode the same way they get your starter code: from the assignment's template repository. When a student accepts the assignment, their repository starts as a copy of the template, workflow included.

Commit the workflow to the template

1. On GitHub, open the assignment's template repository. This is the repository you registered with gh teacher assignment add --template.
2. Select Add file → Create new file.
3. For the file name, type .github/workflows/grill-my-code.yml. Typing the slashes creates the folders for you.
4. Paste the workflow you copied from the Wizard.
5. Select Commit changes and commit to the main branch.

From now on, every student who accepts the assignment gets GrillMyCode.

Leave Classroom 50's own workflow alone

The template may also contain .github/workflows/autograde.yaml, or Classroom 50 may add it. That file belongs to Classroom 50. Put GrillMyCode in its own file, as above, and don't edit autograde.yaml.

Students who have already accepted

A student repository is a copy of the template at the moment the student accepted, so repositories created before you added the workflow don't have it. They can get it in two ways:

• Classroom 50 copies the template's .github folder again each time a student runs gh student submit, so those students pick up the workflow on their next submit.
• You can also add the same file to their repositories yourself.

Assignments without a template

If you created the assignment with --empty-repo, there is no template to copy from. Add the workflow file to each student's repository directly.

You also need to change one setting. In the Wizard's File handling options step, tick Include initial (template) commit before copying the workflow. In an empty repository, the first commit is the student's own work, so it has to be included. The Classroom 50 guide explains why.

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