A classroom suffix on profile information to be used on assignment repository prefix

[emersonmello]

Feature request ✨

Since Jan/2019 Github Classroom is supporting multiple classroom per organisation 👏.

This feature helps me a lot because I don't need to create a new organisation each semester. However, now this unique Github organization stores assignments from different "classroom" and my Github organization is a mess and I'm afraid because it will get worst every semester.

My workflow:

1. Create a github organization (once)
2. Create a github classroom (every semester) (i.e. OOP-2018.02, OOP-2019.01, etc.)
3. Create one or N assignments per github classroom and I used to use the follow pattern for assignments' names: project-01, project-02, project-03.

Now, I can't use this assignments' names pattern (duplicity, etc.). I have to put manually some identifier on assignments' name to find out which github classroom it is a part of. For instance:

Github classroom: OOP-2019-01
Github repository: OOP
Your assignment title: Project 01
Your assignment repository prefix: project-01-2019-01

So, next semester I will create a new classroom OOP-2019-02 and the assignment repository prefix will be project-01-2019-02.

My feature request is: Is that possible to create an extra field on Github Classroom Profile information? For instance: suffix for assignment repository prefix (ok, the name is not good 😬).

So, in this new field I can put the current semester (i.e. 2019-01) and it will present on all student repositories names.

I know and can do it manually and I'm already doing that. But, Github Classroom could offers a way to group assignments per "github classroom" and it is important when we want to clone all students repositories for a specific assignments.

Edit: Actually, the suffix could be a prefix as well. Example: 2019-01-project-01 instead of project-01-2019-01. The 2019-01 is the value in this new suffix/prefix field.

Motivation

I'm using Git-Gud-tool (a grading cli command) to clone all students repositories and I have to use a string to filter assignments from a specific github classroom. For instance:

git_gud_py clone -o=ORGANIZATION "project-01-2019-01"

Cloning into 'project-01-2019-01-johndoe'
Cloning into 'project-01-2019-01-jackdoe'

[d12]

I think this is a great idea! I'll add this to our backlog of work to tackle, and I'll update you when we make progress on this.

[femmebot]

A common pattern I've seen teachers use is:
course-name/code + term + section so it might look something like ICM200 Sp20 01 where ICM200 is the course name/code, Sp20 means it's taught in the spring 2020, and 01 is the section number.