Codio has been named the exclusive commercial partner to extend GitHub Classroom benefits onto Codio’s cloud-based teaching platform, creating a new upgrade path for instructors who want more advanced computer science and technical skills tooling without leaving their GitHub workflows. The Cambridge, Massachusetts based company positions its platform as purpose built to scale computer science and tech skills education, with evidence-based tools for course management, hands-on learning and responsible AI integration.
Under the partnership, more than 3,000 instructors and 500,000 students who currently use GitHub Classroom will be eligible to transition their assignments and courses into Codio’s enterprise-grade learning environment. Those users can keep their existing GitHub-native workflows, including course materials, assignments and grading scripts stored in Git repositories, while gaining access to Codio’s compute flexibility and modern AI tools designed for large-scale computing and tech skills programs.
“This partnership reflects our shared vision with GitHub to keep the computing and tech skills learning experience at the forefront of advances in edtech and learning experience design, while embracing the use of AI to enhance the learner experience,” said Doug Hughes, CEO of Codio. “We’re working closely with the GitHub Education team to give instructors an easy, disruption-free path to use Codio while retaining the workflows they rely on, and in doing so gain access to tooling, support, and learner experiences at the forefront of modern computing education.”
GitHub Classroom users who move onto Codio’s platform will also gain access to Coach, Codio’s AI teaching assistant. Coach is designed to provide immediate feedback on common student challenges, such as programming error messages, without giving away answers. According to the company, this approach has been shown to increase assignment completion rates, lower DWF rates and raise median grade performance by 15 percent, while reducing manual grading demands. The platform also offers advanced autograding, large language model rubric-based evaluation and learner behavior insights at the program level, which are intended to help institutions scale high-quality instruction to thousands of learners.
“GitHub has always been committed to giving the next generation of developers the tools they need to learn, build, and grow,” said Avni Khatri, Senior Director for Education at GitHub. “Our partnership with Codio is a natural extension of that commitment, ensuring that instructors have access to purpose-built, enterprise-grade tools for assignment management, autograding, and student engagement that integrate seamlessly with GitHub’s AI-powered coding tools, so educators can keep their focus where it belongs: on their students.”
To support the transition, Codio is launching a dedicated onboarding program for GitHub Classroom users. The program includes migration tools, live sessions and two types of free access that give users the choice to continue relying on GitHub Codespaces or to move fully onto the Codio platform. For institutions that go beyond the free tiers, Codio will offer preferential pricing and enhanced support for the largest-scale programs.
Founded in 2015, Codio describes itself as a specialist edtech platform focused on scaling accessible, high-quality learning experiences in computing, AI and tech skills education. The company says it leverages computing education research and AI to provide an easy-to-use and scalable toolset for teaching tech skills and computer science at scale and reports that it powers leading computer science schools, bootcamps and workforce development partners globally. Its technology stack supports hands-on learning experiences from introductory programming courses through advanced topics such as AI, machine learning, cybersecurity and data science, with interactive content, AI-enabled features and course management and insight tools aimed at educators.
GitHub, for its part, is characterized in the release as the world’s leading platform for agentic software development, powered by GitHub Copilot to build, scale and deliver secure software. The company reports that more than 180 million developers work on GitHub, including over 90 percent of Fortune 100 companies, and that more than 77,000 organizations have adopted GitHub Copilot to support their development workflows.
The partnership positions Codio as a primary upgrade path for GitHub Classroom instructors who want a deeper teaching and learning layer on top of their existing GitHub infrastructure, aligning course management, AI-supported feedback and large-scale assessment with the repositories and tools many computing programs already rely on.