I recently completed an online course that allowed me access to the instructor's GitHub repositories which were used as the scaffolding for each of the projects. I'm attempting to create my own project using the same boilerplates, however I'd like to store the changes in my own repository. How do I transfer a cloned repository into my github account so that when I make changes, they are recognized in my account only? Thank you.
If you simply want your own repo from his template, just create a repo in GitHub web interface and then push to it by adding the repo as remote with git remote add or git remote set-url and then pushing.
If you want your repo to be a fork of his repo, go to his repo, press the Fork button and then again as described before.