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Learn GitHub: Privacy, Security, and Administration

Learn about GitHub’s more advanced features, like personal access tokens, two-factor authentication, and enterprise managed users.

This course includes
This course includes

  • Skill level

    Intermediate

  • Time to complete

    Average based on combined completion rates — individual pacing in lessons, projects, and quizzes may vary
     
    <1 hour

  • Prerequisites

    None

About this course

Level up your GitHub knowledge with this course about privacy, security, and administration features. Learn how to create, activate, manage, and disable personal access tokens as well as two-factor authentication. Dive into enterprise managed users and learn how these tools can benefit you as a software developer.

Skills you'll gain

  • Create and manage personal access tokens

  • Activate two-factor authentication

  • Manage and use two-factor authentication

  • Identify benefits of enterprise managed users

Syllabus

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Meet the creator of the course
Meet the full team
Alisha Grama
Senior Instructional Designer, Computer Science at Codecademy
Alisha is a Senior Instructional Designer in the computer science domain at Codecademy. Alisha majored in Computer Science and minored in Ethics at the University of Rochester, where she gained experience as a Teaching Assistant. Before joining Codecademy, she taught STEM concepts to secondary students, including as the Lead Algebra Teacher at a Brooklyn charter school.
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