Former GA instructor here. I kept a LOT of stuff (~300 repos) on Github for student assignments when I taught WDI, all public. I liked keeping it public by def

Former GA instructor here. I kept a LOT of stuff (~300 repos) on Github for student assignments when I taught WDI, all public. I liked keeping it public by default, and advocated internally for such for a few reasons; I didn't think there was anything much in the repos that needed to be kept private, and I liked student's contributions via PRs for turning in assignments to be public so that they could show a strong history of doing stuff on github to future employers. I'm also a huge FOSS advocate, and like pushing for things to be public when possible as a default. Some of the assignments could in theory be externally consumed, but I put exactly zero time into making it more usable for people not actually in the class.