GitHub Classroom services have been decommissioned

Short answer

GitHub Classroom is deprecated as of August 28, 2026. The Classroom website, APIs, and related services have been decommissioned. GitHub user accounts, repositories, and organizations created to work with Classroom are not affected, but some Classroom data will be permanently deleted under GitHub’s data-retention policies.

What changed

GitHub Classroom was deprecated effective August 28, 2026. Its website, APIs, and related services were decommissioned. GitHub says some Classroom data - including classroom and assignment names, tests defined outside repositories, and LTI-integrated rosters - will be permanently deleted in accordance with its data-retention policies.

Affected product, plan, or suite

GitHub Classroom website, APIs, related services, and some Classroom data

Date and timing

2026-08-28

Why now

GitHub published the retirement notice on August 27, 2026, and said this completed the transition announced on May 26. The notice points readers to the GitHub Educator Community Discussion for information about the transition and recommended partner solutions. The effective deletion date for the identified data is not specified.

Who should care

Educators and institutions that used GitHub Classroom should assess course workflows involving assignments, tests, rosters, or integrations. Developers and administrators that depended on Classroom APIs should also review those dependencies. Existing GitHub user accounts, repositories, and organizations created to work with Classroom are not affected.

Why it matters

Classroom-dependent course workflows need a replacement because the Classroom website, APIs, and related services have been decommissioned. Keep existing exports and accessible repository data, and choose a replacement for the retired workflow. For Classroom-specific data that is no longer accessible, ask GitHub Education Support what recovery remains possible.

What this does not change

The source does not provide an exact deletion date or cutoff time for the affected data, identify which partner solution fits a particular institution, or describe migration tooling. It also does not state whether every category of Classroom data will be deleted; it says some data will be permanently deleted.

Worthd take

This is a completed service retirement, not a future deprecation notice. Replace Classroom-dependent workflows and safeguard data you already hold. Do not assume that a fresh Classroom export is available after decommissioning; associated GitHub accounts, repositories, and organizations remain unaffected.

What to check next

• Identify assignments, tests, rosters, and integrations that depended on GitHub Classroom.
• Preserve existing exports and accessible repository data. Ask GitHub Education Support about any needed Classroom data you can no longer access; recovery is not guaranteed.
• Replace workflows or integrations that depended on the decommissioned Classroom website, APIs, or related services.
• Verify access to GitHub user accounts, repositories, and organizations created to work with Classroom; GitHub says these are not affected.
• Use GitHub transition and support guidance to evaluate replacement workflows and reach Education Support.