The TigYog docs

or, How to TigYog

You want to write courses on TigYog? This TigYog course teaches you how. (Yes, it’s all very meta.)

What is TigYog?

TigYog is a new kind of online course. Here’s the idea, and why you should consider using TigYog for your course.

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Questions and responses 🤔

TigYog’s bread-and-butter: multiple-choice questions, with customized responses. You can craft all kinds of interactive tutorials and fiction by combining these two features. Here’s how.

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Chapters and pre-selling 📖

A TigYog course/book is made up of chapters. Here’s how to create them, link to them, etc. You can also announce chapters before you’ve written them, enabling you to pre-sell your course.

Getting paid 💸

You can charge for your TigYog content. Here’s how it works.

Images 🖼️

A picture can be worth a thousand words. Here’s how to add and configure them.

Iframes: custom interactive widgets 👩‍💻

TigYog’s built-in buttons aren’t interactive enough for you? Try the custom iframe block. You can use it to build any kind of interactivity you can imagine.

Video embeds 📽️

TigYog exists to combat the scourge of “video playlist” courses. But that doesn’t mean video is bad. You can embed videos in your TigYog chapter — here’s how.

Code blocks

You can embed code blocks in your chapters, so learners can run your code, or edit it and play around. Learn how to embed a Python REPL in your TigYog chapter.

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Newsletters 🗞️

Readers can subscribe for updates on your course. You can email your subscribers whenever you like, e.g. to tell them that a new chapter is out.

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Custom domains 🕸️

Soon you will be able to put your course on your own domain, like geometry.org. It just takes a dash of DNS.

`## Markdown`

TigYog has an interactive WYSIWYG editor, which we think works nicely for creating interactive content. But if you’re importing pre-existing content, or you prefer using plaintext, you might want to write your content in TigYog-Flavored Markdown. This feature is still in the works — stay tuned.

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Publish using CLI 🤓

TigYog has an official CLI that lets you write your course in Markdown, log in with a CLI, and deploy using git. This is an alternative to the WYSIWYG editor built into the TigYog website. You might want it if you prefer developer tooling, or you need more advanced collaboration or version control.

Embedding TigYog within other content

TigYog is primarily a standalone platform for online courses. However, you can also embed TigYog content in other platforms, or on your own site. Here are some examples and tips.