Testing assignment invitations

[ksuderman]

We have an organization for our compilers course [1] and I have set up a classroom and one assignment with some starter code. I would like to see what the students are going to see when they accept the invitation to the assignment [2], but when I follow the invitation link and click the Accept this assignment button I get the error:

Cannot retrieve this organizations repo plan, please reauthenticate your token. 

But I am not sure what token I am supposed to be reauthenticating? My own? The organizations? How do I "reauthenticate my token"?

Thanks,
Keith

1. https://github.com/vassar-cmpu-331/
2. https://classroom.github.com/assignment-invitations/9a1aab67fe979eb4fadae025793460f9

[khatchad]

My class was also seeing this error today as well.

https://github.com/cst4713-d766 https://github.com/cst4713-d766
https://classroom.github.com/classrooms/16441572-cst-4713-dynamic-web-development-servlets-and-jsp-sp2016/assignments/projectzero https://classroom.github.com/classrooms/16441572-cst-4713-dynamic-web-development-servlets-and-jsp-sp2016/assignments/projectzero

[tarebyte]

@ksuderman if you sign out and sign back in that should fix it. If not please ping me and I can help you get it sorted out.

[khatchad]

Hi @ksuderman, I had students sign out and back in again and still experienced this problem. Can you help?

[tarebyte]

@khatchad did you by chance test to make sure your assignment worked correctly?

[khatchad]

@tarebyte Yes. I think I see the problem. As the student repositories are not forked, they are counting against my private repo limit. I am only allowed 10 private repos, so anyone accepting the invite after 10 repos have been taken is getting the error. I think that is the problem.

[tarebyte]

@khatchad it should be counting against the organizations private repo limit.

[khatchad]

@tarebyte But forks don't count against the limit, I don't think.

[khatchad]

@tarebyte I only have 10 private repos but 24 students. That means I won't have enough repos even for one assignment.

[tarebyte]

@khatchad did you request private repos from education.github.com?

[khatchad]

@tarebyte Yes.

[khatchad]

@tarebyte As such, I don't think this non-forking model is going to work out. As I understand it, the forking model was abandoned due to cheating. However, non-forking takes up private repos that I don't have. So, I have to make the repos public, and we're back to square one.

[ksuderman]

@tarebyte I tried logging out and back in yesterday with no difference. Today I deleted the classroom/assignment and recreated them and now it seems to be working. Maybe something to do with the fact that the first time around the classroom name was the same as the organization name?

However, I will run into the same problem as @khatchad; not enough private repos. We have 25 students with 5 assignments, which will result in 125 repos plus the private repositories used for model solutions etc. Do I request more private repositories by upgrading on the "Billing" page or should I send an email?

[tarebyte]

@ksuderman please send a request to https://github.com/contact and they will be able to help you get more free private repos.

[ksuderman]

Thanks @tarebyte I will do that. I will let you close this issue when you've finished helping @khatchad.