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Graph & Network Station
Build force-directed graphs and network views — explore structure, communities, simulations, and algorithm steppers — then reuse one network across many classroom versions.
AI can draft. You decide what the class sees.
What Graph & Network is
Graph & Network is a Station for relationship diagrams that move. Build force-directed graphs, study centrality and communities, run epidemic-style simulations, and step algorithms such as BFS, DFS, and Dijkstra on networks learners can see.
That matters in computing and systems teaching because structure is hard to imagine from an adjacency list alone. Show the graph living, colouring, and expanding — then ask what the metrics mean.
Why teachers use Graph & Network
Social and trade nets
Explore who connects to whom with a layout the class can discuss.
Centrality lessons
Degree, betweenness, closeness, and eigenvector highlights on the same graph.
Communities
Louvain, Leiden, and ensemble colouring to make clusters visible.
Algorithm steppers
Watch BFS, DFS, or Dijkstra expand a frontier instead of only writing pseudocode.
On TeachForge, Graph & Network is a Workshop Station — built to move from structure to live teaching without leaving the platform.
Inside the Graph & Network Station
Like the rest of the Workshop, you shape the network on one side and watch the canvas respond on the other.
- Explore, Analyse, Simulate, Step, and Temporal tabs with catalogue sub-modes
- Force-directed canvas for live layout and inspection
- Network JSON for nodes, edges, and weights — including Advanced JSON control
- Metrics and community colouring that recompute as the graph changes
- Epidemic and temporal contact views for dynamic network stories
- Templates, export, share, embed, and Whiteboard send
How a network becomes a teaching view
Load a template, catalogue package, or network JSON
Start from a teaching-ready graph or your own structure.
Run layout, metrics, communities, simulation, or steppers
The canvas colouring and expansion follow the controls.
Export, save, or send it live
Take it to the board, into a question, or out as a file you own.
One network. Every version of it.
Graph & Network supports parametric catalogue packages across explore, analyse, simulate, step, and temporal modes — plus saved network JSON — so the same teaching graph can reopen with new weights, highlights, or algorithm settings.
Change it while you teach
Retune layout, recolour communities, or restart a stepper mid-lesson.
Keep the structure, vary the question
The same node set can host centrality today and epidemic spread tomorrow.
Make algorithms visible
Steppers turn abstract traversal into something the room can watch.
Stay close to assessment
Save the network package and reuse it inside questions and labs.
Prefer editing the raw network JSON? That path stays. Catalogue packages are there when you want a classroom instrument quickly.
Ready-made networks to start from
Open a catalogue mode or template, then adapt it:
| Area | What you can open |
|---|---|
| Explore | Social; Trade; Knowledge graph; Collaboration |
| Analyse & simulate | Centrality highlight; Degree distribution; Epidemic spread |
| Step & temporal | BFS traversal; Contact events |
| Templates | Social Network; Trade Network; Knowledge Graph; Collaboration Network; Temporal Contacts |
AI help, your way
Need a first draft? Use AI as an assistant — then review, edit, and approve before anything reaches learners.
Copy the prompt
Generate a ready-made prompt and paste it into the chat tool you already use.
Use your own GPU
Connect a local model endpoint in your settings and run generation on hardware you control.
Use your own API key
Add your provider key in settings, choose the model, and generate with your own account.
AI can be wrong. That is exactly why a teacher stays in the loop.
Take the network where teaching happens
- Whiteboard — put it on the live board and adjust it in front of the class
- Quest Ladder — drop it into questions and explanations
- Virtual Lab — reuse it inside interactive lab work
- Community — share what you built, and build on what other educators shared