University of Pennsylvania GitHub Campus Program

GitHub Campus Program makes GitHub Enterprise features available to the Penn Community.

University of Pennsylvania GitHub Organization

You must have a GitHub account before you can become a member of the University of Pennsylvania (upenn) organization on GitHub. You can use an existing account or create a new GitHub account here:

• Join GitHub

You can use any available name for your GitHub account. If your PennKey username (PennName) is unavailable, consider using yourpennname-upenn (i.e. bfrankln-upenn). Since GitHub account names are not unique to the upenn organization, do not assume that a GitHub account belongs to a Penn affiliate because it is the same as someone’s PennName.

All members of the upenn GitHub organization are required to have two-factor authentication enabled on their GitHub accounts. If you have not done so already, see these instructions:

• Configuring two-factor authentication

After logging into your GitHub account (with two-factor authentication enabled), visit this URL to authenticate with your PennKey and automatically become a member of the upenn GitHub organization:

• https://github.com/orgs/upenn/sso/sign_up

Note that you can associate your Penn WebLogin SSO identity with any of your GitHub accounts, but only one can be associated at a time. You will also be required to enable Two-factor authentication on your GitHub account, if you haven’t done so already.

WARNING: GitHub is not suitable for storing sensitive information, including:

• Data subject to FERPA rules
• HIPAA protected information
• Unencrypted secrets such as passwords or private keys

Why use Penn’s Github Campus Program?

Benefits:

• Protected by Penn WebLogin SSO
• GitHub Teams for cascading access permissions
• Standardized infrastructure available to University
• Security features enforced across all repositories in the enterprise
• Security Vulnerability Alerts for vulnerable repos
• Enterprise support for GitHub Classroom and integration with Canvas
• External collaboration with nonmembers is supported
• Continued access to code repostories is resilient to developer turnover