Github Classroom Ghost Account

[TrentonWallis]

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I have a student who is using their Github account just find on Github, but recently when logging into github classroom they appear as the deleted ghost account and cannot accept assignments correctly.

We have tried:

1. logging out of both Classroom and Github, then logging back into Github, then accepting the assignment in classroom
2. logging out of Classroom then back into Classroom

The student claims they did not delete their Github account, which seems true since they do not appear as ghost when logged into Github, only when logged into Classroom.

Does anyone have any insight on this? I am happy to provide more info if needed.

[queenofcorgis]

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[Victor-Morel]

Hi, exactly the same issue on my side when testing the setup for my course with a dummy account.

[weitsang]

Bumping this up A few students in my class are facing exactly the same issue.

[elonerajeev]

Hey @savrum I'm currently working on #LearnTube Software , an awesome software for students (#####), and I'm eager to contribute it to the GitHub Student Developer Pack for free use. Does anyone know if there are specific requirements or guides for this? Thanks a bunch!

[dcowell]

I have just had the same issue here. Students is listed as ghost after accepting the assignment. They have even tried creating a new GitHub account for which the same thing happened again.

[MaelImhof]

I ran into the same issue, I did not solve it properly speaking but here is what I learned from it :

I'm a student, I needed to register in a GitHub Classroom, but I kept getting the following result :

I contacted my teacher and we went through the registered students identifiers and the roster. My identifier was linked to Ghost, a user account that is supposed to replace the ones that were deleted. In the same way, instead of my GitHub name (say GitHubUser), all assignments were given to and created with the name of Ghost.

Turns out, my GitHub account (GitHubUser) did not exist, or so did GitHub Classroom think. I was able to work normally with it from github.com, creating repositories, logging out, logging back in, all normal. But my account did not exist in the eyes of GitHub Classrooms.

I changed accounts and it worked, but I don't know what changed and what made that the second account existed. Maybe this might help someone though.

[r0b3rtb03]

I'm having this same issue, and my homework assignment is due and I tried to get my professor to help me out but he was super unhelpful and basically blamed me for my problem, even though I've done every assignment so far BUT the one the last one that's due!