[HN Gopher] GitHub Copilot now available for teachers
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       GitHub Copilot now available for teachers
        
       Author : todsacerdoti
       Score  : 12 points
       Date   : 2022-09-08 18:02 UTC (5 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (github.blog)
 (TXT) w3m dump (github.blog)
        
       | FloatArtifact wrote:
       | How about make it available to all open source developers! Not
       | just developers with popular repositories.
        
       | elashri wrote:
       | Ironically this for teachers to help them with class activities
       | like creating assignments as they say
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       | > GitHub Copilot can generate coding assignments
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       | but earlier they said
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       | > One study found that solutions generated by GitHub Copilot
       | placed it amongst the top 25% of students in a cohort.
       | 
       | So considering the both sides, students and teachers have now
       | free access. how would this not lead to problems with evaluation
       | metrics down the way?
        
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