Creating and Accessing GitHub Accounts and Organizations

There are three types of accounts in GitHub: Personal, Enterprise, and Organizations. GitHub organizations “are shared accounts where businesses and open-source projects can collaborate across many projects at once, with sophisticated security and administrative features.” For AVAnnotate projects, a class could be an “organization” or a research team or library might have a shared GitHub account. Currently, enterprise accounts do not work in AVAnnotate.

There are three steps to using new accounts and organizations in an AVAnnotate project:

1. Create a new GitHub personal account or GitHub organization.
2. Give AVAnnotate permission to access the organization.
3. AVAnnotate users will need to re-Login to the AVAnnotate in order to see the new organization or account in the AVAnnotate Dashboard.