Manage Teams

Why do we have teams or sub-teams?
  • Teams or sub-teams allows you to share your repositories privately with organization members.
  • For example:
    1. You are an instructor for HPC101 every semester wherein students develop software collaboratively using github. You might want to create a sub-team for each semester so that students from one semester do not access repos of students from another semester.
    2. You have two collaborative research projects with two other research groups and want to keep repos private to each set of collaborators. This can be achieved by creating a sub-team for each project.
Faculty: How do I add a sub-team?

Creating sub-teams is optional and self service once you have been promoted to a Team Maintainer. There is no name restriction (other than already used names) for sub-teams. It is strongly recommended that you use a name that reflects your research project. For courses, it is recommended that you use course number and semester for e.g. HPC101-Spring25

  1. Navigate to your Team by clicking the Teams tab on the Organization page.
  2. Click on your name (Faculty) to enter your Team page. a. Absolute path to your team in an org, for e.g. njit-research org is https://github.com/orgs/njit-research/teams/firstname-lastname (all lowercase)
  3. Click the Teams tab on top left
  4. Click the Green Button that says "Add a team".
  5. On the pop up window, add the sub-team name that you want to create and click the "team name (Create team)" drop down.
  6. To complete creating the team, add a Description (optional) and select an appropriate radio button for your team visibility and notifications followed by the green "Create team" button. a. Team Settings can be changed at any time.
Faculty: How do I add collaborators to my Team?

Faculty can add students who are not members of the NJIT Github Organization to their team by submitting a form at Highlander Nexus. The system will send an invite to the students that expires after 7 days. If your students do not accept the invite before it expires, please complete the form again. IST staff cannot assist with github accounts if your students ignore invitation emails.

To add existing organization members to your team or sub-team

  1. Navigate to your Team by clicking the Teams tab on the Organization page.

  2. Click on your name (Faculty) to enter your Team page.

    a. Absolute path to your team in an org, for e.g. njit-research org is https://github.com/orgs/njit-research/teams/firstname-lastname (all lowercase)

  3. Click the Green Button that says "Add a member" and add your collaborators github handle or njit email address to send an invite to join your team.

  4. If you do not see the "Add a member" button, please email us to be promoted to a Team Maintainer.
Student: How do I get added to a Team?
  • Ask your facutly advisor or course instructor to add you to their team or sub team.
  • ARCS cannot help you if you ignore the invitation email or do not follow instructions provided here