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, as part of a larger interactive lesson. Here’s an example video from the Zero to Geo series on YouTube:

To embed a YouTube video like this, first add an “IFrame” block to your document. Then set the iframe URL to:

Finally, set the “init data” to the YouTube video ID — that’s the string like 2hBWCCAiCzQ that you see in the URL of the YouTube video like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2hBWCCAiCzQ.

Here’s a TED video:

To embed a TED video, add an “IFrame” block, and set the iframe URL to:

Then set the “init data” to the TED video ID from the URL, like:

Yeah, the above is specifically for YouTube. If you want to embed video from other places, you can fork the YouTube embed source on Glitch, or you can email me — I’ll help out!