Handling sub groups

[yanntm]

Feature request ✨

We have an issue currently when dealing with large roster of students.

If we could divide students into subgroups, and allow different teachers to have assigned groups of students, this would at least make it possible for each teacher to manually inspect his say ~20/30 submissions (not easy, but still doable).

Currently as course admin I see all students, but so do all my teachers/assistants.
They should not, simply because of privacy reasons and need to know.

Also they should not because obviously they have nothing to do with the students not assigned to them, so it's cluttering the whole view to where it's unusable (5 pages of submissions, not sortable ? gg)

[talbronfer]

+1 for that. We run a Coding School with multiple classes running simultaneously.
I think the natural solution to this problem would be using GitHub Teams. It doesn't make a lot of sense for a classroom to be represented as an organization - the school should be the organization.

Edit: I understand these are two separate issues, and that the issue I brought up will be fixed on #1248

[BenEmdon]

This feature request sounds like it could be solved with the addiction of multiple classrooms per organization #1248. @srinjoym can you confirm this?

[EricPickup]

If you mean to hide the subgroups from TA's for privacy reasons, I'm not sure that'd be entirely possible. Classroom uses GitHub organizations where teachers are owners and students are members. I don't think there'd be a way to hide certain students from teachers/assistants since they're owners of the org.

If that's not the main focus and you primarily want to organize into subgroups, as Ben mentioned you'd be able to use multiple classrooms in your org that could be assigned to each TA.

We're also working on searching/sorting student repos in #1879 which will make it much easier to divide and categorize your students (e.g. in alphabetical order).