Git & GitHub Mastery · Step 5 of 8
Issues, Projects & GitHub Actions
Learn to track bugs, organize work with Project boards, and automate your repo with GitHub Actions — hands-on, in one course.
What you’ll walk away with
- Create and manage Issues to track bugs and tasks in a real repository
- Set up Project boards to organize and visualize work in progress
- Write a basic GitHub Actions workflow to automate events in your repo
- Combine Issues, Projects, and Actions together in a hands-on repository exercise
- Recognize how automation and tracking tools reduce manual oversight of repo activity
Questions people ask before they start
Do I need prior GitHub experience to take this course?
You should be comfortable with basic Git and GitHub usage (repos, commits, pushes). This course focuses specifically on Issues, Projects, and Actions, not Git fundamentals.
Will I actually build something, or is this just theory?
The final lesson, 'Hands-On: Organize and Automate a Real Repository,' has you apply Issues, Projects, and a GitHub Actions workflow together in a real repo, not just watch demos.
What exactly will I learn about GitHub Actions?
The course covers 'GitHub Actions: The Basics of Automation' — the fundamentals of setting up automation tied to repository events. It's an introduction, not an advanced CI/CD deep dive.
Is this course about coding with AI, or just GitHub tooling?
This specific course focuses on GitHub's own tracking and automation features — Issues, Project boards, and Actions — as part of AI University's broader curriculum on building software safely.
How is work organized in this course?
There's one module, 'Beyond Code: Tracking and Automating Work,' with four lessons progressing from Issues, to Project boards, to GitHub Actions basics, ending in a hands-on exercise.
Who is this course for?
Developers or teams who want to move beyond just writing code and start tracking bugs, organizing tasks on boards, and automating repetitive repo tasks with GitHub Actions.