๐ฃ Student/Teacher Verification Has Moved โ Now in Your User Settings! #156395
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We would like to inform you that the student/teacher verification process has been relocated to a new section within your user settings, right next to your billing and plans information.
By moving the verification process to your settings page it makes it easier to access, manage, and track everything related to your account in one place. Whatโs new in this update:
Your application has been received and is currently under review. Youโll see updates here as it moves through each stage of the verification process.
If your application is rejected, youโll now see clear reasons and tips for what to fix before trying again. Important Your academic benefits will be activated within 72 hours after successful verification. ๐
No action required for verified usersIf you have already completed verification, no further action is required. Need Help or Noticed a Bug?If you run into any issues or spot a bug during the updated verification process, let us know in the comments โ your feedback helps us make things better for everyone. If you need support with the application steps themselves, feel free to start a new discussion thread. Our team and community members are always around to help you out. |
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I already applied and got approved for it and I am still waiting for the benefits but the status page says I have not submitted anything yet. |
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I got the same question like the last floor. I got approved on 13th April. Should I reapply the benefits? Or I only need to wait until I get the benefits. |
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My application is stuck midway. No confirmation msg is displayed when I expand the details about it |
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Hello, my GitHub Student Developer Pack was approved on April 13, but I still donโt see the benefits in my account. It says I haven't submitted any application. Can you help me? |
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Hi everyone! ๐ We are aware of the 500 errors occurring when users visit https://github.com/settings/education/benefits. Our team is actively working to resolve this issue as quickly as possible and we appreciate your patience and understanding. Once it has been resolved, we will provide an update directly here. |
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Hey! My governmentally issued student ID is 2-sided. On the front it has my name, date of birth and ID number and on the backside it shows the date of validity and the name of my school (among other info). In the current state of the system, it's not possible to upload multiple sides nor to upload pictures from my gallery. I've tried taking a picture of the backside only, but photos taken with both my front camera and back camera turned out to be blurry. I've even tried with my webcam but it produced an even worse image. After many failed attempts, I've submitted a barely readable photo and it got rejected almost instantly. Could you make uploading documents permitted or at least have the option to verify students through other channels? It would be urgent for my JetBrains subscription. |
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@samus-aran Please come up with a reasonable solution as if the situation stays the same, I won't be able to verify myself and will loose access to tools that are more than crucial for my studies! Thank you for your efforts! |
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Good Morning! i'm approved for the student plan, I have GitHub Pro, but I can't access Copilot Pro. The IDEs I want to use are listed as free. Does anyone know why I can't upgrade to Copilot Pro? |
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PSA - If you:
Then: YOU SHOULD MOVE YOUR DNS OFF GITHUB PAGES IMMEDIATELY, UNTIL YOUR RENEWAL GOES THROUGH Otherwise, it is possible your domain will redirect to a SPAM website while GH Pages is offline. On my domain, this was some kind of online casino website based in India. I have absolutely no idea how this is technically possible, but this happened to my domain. I am not sure if this is due to some kind of bug or security issue, but if anyone knows the right place to file a ticket, please let me know. I cannot imagine this kind of redirect being intended behavior. |
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โApproved Student Pack โ Benefits Still Not Active After Several Days (Possible Conflict)โHi everyone, My GitHub Student Developer Pack application was approved on April 28, 2025. However, the benefits are still not active, and I continue to see the message: I suspect this might be due to a previous denied application on the same day, which could be causing a system conflict. Iโve already:
My profile name is: Ahmet Said Bayram If anyone has experienced something similar or knows how to solve this, Iโd really appreciate your help! |
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The issue with Education Benefits Application โ Revoked Status โThere are outstanding issues with your GitHub account. Please contact GitHub Support.โ When I checked my application status, it showed Revoked, just one day after submission. Iโm not sure what caused this and would appreciate your guidance on how to resolve any issues or what steps I should take to reapply successfully. I am currently a student and would like to benefit from the GitHub Student Pack to support my learning and development. Please let me know what additional information or documentation is required. |
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i am getting this error while requesting GitHub Student Developer Pack, after taking a picture at the Dated Proof ID. |
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OK after 5 tries I finally succeeded! The winning ticket was a screenshot
of my official transcript.
โฆOn Thu, Oct 16, 2025 at 12:02โฏPM SamSamKDBX ***@***.***> wrote:
Hi, I used this method and it works well, but after sharing my student ID
card, there was an error message :
"There was an error creating the discount request. Errors: Discount
request could not be created. Discount request errors: Hi, SamSamKDBX! You
were last verified as a student on . It is not necessary for you to re
verify at this time."
But I still dont have copilot premium and others benefits in this page
<https://github.com/education>.
What can I do ?
Thank you.
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Yeah it's really hidden! Log in -- Go into your personal profile, then
settings, then billing and licensing, then education benefits.
โฆOn Thu, Oct 23, 2025 at 3:01โฏAM Mateus Loubach ***@***.***> wrote:
I'm looking for that page but can't find it anymore. did they remove it
altogether? can you provide the url?
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Si - mira arriba -- "The winning ticket was a screenshot of my official
transcript". ยกBuena suerte!
โฆOn Fri, Oct 24, 2025 at 1:07โฏPM Francisco Ceniquel ***@***.***> wrote:
Pudiste encontrar alguna solucion? estoy con el mismo problema
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Rejected me pretty fast each of the first four times.
Vanessa Warheit
Goldman School of Public Policy
UC Berkeley
MPA '26
โฆOn Sun, Oct 26, 2025 at 11:53โฏAM Ivan Penchev ***@***.***> wrote:
Nice how long did each of the applications took?
did they reject you right away or?
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I'm glad this has been answered ๐ |
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Hi guys. I am new here and really do not know my way around the plateforme so hopefully I am asking this in the right place :) |
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I've registered now and they're supposed to reply within 8 days. I'm really looking forward to it, I hope they don't let me down ๐ |
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I keep being denied with the following information: "Please complete your GitHub billing information with your full name exactly as it appears in your academic affiliation document. You do not have to add a payment method. You may need to log out and log back in to GitHub before reapplying. If you have only a single legal name, enter it in both the first and last name fields.", but my name is matching, so I don't know what else I can do. Any advice? |
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Camera only? Are you kidding me? Microsoft-owned company can't implement file upload? I'd rather buy Claude or OpenAI ChatGPT and use Gitlab than use such student benefits that look like "let's make it to report to management to show we can do something, hopefully nobody gonna check it". |
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Extremely frustrating and completely broken process. I am a student in a Master of Art program that is completely virtual. I do not live on campus. Even the people that live on campus take the class virtually. I do not have any printed documents, everything is digital. There's no way to get my webcam to focus on my phone screen. It just washes out or is blurry. SO VERY FRUSTRATING!!! HOW can I get verified? Even in the dropdown it says you can provide a screenshot of the student portal, but then doesn't provide any way to actually do it! |
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Hello, If your GitHub Student Developer Pack application was rejected due to academic affiliation verification, you can resolve it by updating your billing details and then reapplying. Please follow these steps:
You will see two blue links:
Note:
After completing these steps, the application is usually verified and approved within about 30 minutes. If you still face any issues, please let me know. Thank you. |
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I have an issue when it ask for the image to be taken it always opens my front camera and it's hard to take documents and proof pictures through it It does not allow me to switch to back camera or to upload the files and my request keep getting denied Can anyone guide me what to do in this situation |
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Totally broken...I had my account revoked. I need certain services for school. It said that what I sent in didn't show a current date...Obviously the classes I'm signed up for most recently arent going to show up on a transcript, the class isn't complete yet. Thats what my first denial letter said, which doesn't make any sense lol. Maybe the photo was a bit unclear from the completely insane way that i was expected to take a picture with my crappy webcam in the most awkward way possible.. and I don't have a functional printer to use, I had to try to take a backwards mirrored-image photo of a PDF opened up on my monitor. (oh btw, the course i'm about to start is a fully online bootcamp fast-track program...its heavily project based meaning full dependency on the student functionality of Github). The first one caught me off guard so i took it with the worst webcam imaginable, when I realized how bad it was, I tried it again with my iPhone as continuity camera and that looked just as bad. So now I wasted two tries, I'm about to start a class that fully depends on this, and it's a bit frustrating especially because of how heavily i've been getting into this stuff lately. I probably spend more time teaching myself things way beyond the scope of my particular classes than I do on the actual classes. Most recently I learned everything I could about deploying self hosted containers and integrating that with the functionality of agents inside of VScode, which I can now no longer experiment with in any kind of real way. I spent all day learning openclaw just to have an alternative lol (its lowkey better tbh) Please help me re-establish my account asap, thanks! I'm sure it will be functional again eventually it's just a really unfortunate time for this |
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I have a big problem I don't really see in my devices the possibility to upload my documents I don't know if i am the only one facing this issue, but i realy need help guys |
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My GitHub account is in a mixed Copilot plan state after becoming a verified teacher. |
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Hi everyone! ๐ We are aware of the 500 errors occurring when users visit https://github.com/settings/education/benefits. Our team is actively working to resolve this issue as quickly as possible and we appreciate your patience and understanding. Once it has been resolved, we will provide an update directly here.