Mastering GitHub Collaboration
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Take your GitHub collaboration skills to the next level with this in-depth course designed for developers, team leads, DevOps engineers, and project managers.
Starting with a comprehensive overview of GitHub account types and pricing plans, you’ll learn how to choose the right setup for individuals, teams, or enterprises. The course then explores permission structures, including managing team access, repository-level control, and organization-wide policies.
Collaboration is at the heart of GitHub, and we’ll walk you through advanced workflows such as branching models for teams, code review strategies, required reviews, protected branches, and using GitHub Discussions and Projects for communication and planning.
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Security is a critical component of modern development. You’ll explore GitHub’s security features, including role-based access control (RBAC), secret scanning, Dependabot alerts, security advisories, and audit logging. Learn how to securely manage collaborators, configure 2FA enforcement, and set fine-grained personal access tokens.
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What is GitHub and How It Enables Team CollaborationÂ
Learn what GitHub is, why it’s more than just Git, and how it powers open-source and enterprise development.
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GitHub vs Git: Understanding the Relationship
Clarify the roles of Git (version control) and GitHub (hosting and collaboration), and when to use each.
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Key Collaboration Concepts: Repos, Forks, Pull Requests
Master the GitHub collaboration workflow: branching, forking, pull requests, issues, and project boards
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Personal Accounts and Free Plan Capabilities
Learn what you can do with a free personal account—including unlimited private repos and collaborators
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Organization Accounts and Teams
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Understand how organizations work on GitHub, including creating teams, assigning roles, and repository ownership.
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GitHub Plans (Free, Pro, Team, Enterprise)
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Breakdown of pricing, features, and use cases for different GitHub plans. When should you upgrade?
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Repository Roles (Read, Write, Admin, Triage, Maintain)
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Deep dive into GitHub's fine-grained permission levels and when to assign them.
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Managing Access with Teams and Organizations
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Best practices for using teams to control repo access at scale within an organization.
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Branch Protection Rules
Learn how to protect main branches using rules (require PR reviews, status checks, signed commits, etc.).
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Collaborator vs Team Access
Know the pros and cons of inviting individual collaborators vs setting up teams.
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Fork-and-Pull vs Shared Branching Models
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Explore two primary models of collaboration and which is better for open-source vs enterprise.
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Code Review Best Practices and Required Reviews
Set up mandatory reviews, assign reviewers, and use GitHub’s review UI effectively.
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Automating Workflows with GitHub Actions
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Automate builds, tests, deployments, and security scans using GitHub Actions.
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Project Boards and Issue Management
Use GitHub Projects and Issues for Kanban-style task management and agile workflows.
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Security Overview: Threats in Code Collaboration
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Understand key security concerns in public and private repositories.
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Enabling Two-Factor Authentication (2FA)
Learn how and why to enforce 2FA across your org or for contributors.
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Secrets Scanning and Token Protection
Detect and block API keys, tokens, and secrets from being pushed to GitHub.
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Code Scanning and Dependency Alerts
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Enable GitHub’s built-in static analysis and supply chain alerts to find and fix vulnerabilities.
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GitHub Advanced Security (GHAS)
Overview of premium features like CodeQL, secret scanning, and compliance tools for enterprises.
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Simulated Team Project -
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GitHub Collaboration
By the end of this course, you’ll know how to:
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Structure your GitHub organizations and teams for optimal collaboration.
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Set permissions and access control confidently and securely.
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Implement scalable, secure workflows for open-source and private projects.
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Leverage GitHub security tools to proactively safeguard your code and collaborators.
Developers
Whether you're managing a large open-source community or leading a private enterprise project, this course will equip you with the tools to collaborate efficiently, manage users responsibly, and secure your development pipeline on GitHub.
