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To use private repositories for your class:
1. Request free private repositories
GitHub is free for open source and paid for private use. We're happy to offer free private repositories to teachers using GitHub with students in a classroom setting – just submit a request for an organization account upgrade. Note these requests take up to a week to process, so please do this in advance.
2. Give access to others
You'll probably want to [add][help-add] all co-teachers, teaching assistants, graders, etc. to the Owners team in the organization, so that they will be able to access all repositories.
You can read more about teams and access control on GitHub Help.