Workshop & Stations
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The Workshop
Twenty-two interactive Stations for building teaching content — diagrams, charts, code, science, music, and more — then taking what you make straight onto the live board, into questions, into labs, or out as files you own.
Any subject. Interactive. In minutes.
The big idea
The Workshop is where teaching materials get made. Not as static slides you rebuild every year — as interactive pieces you can adjust, reuse, and carry into the rest of TeachForge.
Each Station is focused — Mermaid for flowcharts, TikZ for precise STEM figures, Chart Builder for data stories, Science for live diagrams, and so on — but they all share the same working rhythm. Learn one Station and the others feel familiar.
A Station on its own is useful. The Workshop becomes powerful when what you build moves into the lesson: onto the Whiteboard, into Quest Ladder, into a Virtual Lab, or out as SVG and files you can use elsewhere.
What you can build
Twenty-two Stations, grouped the way teachers actually browse:
| Area | Stations |
|---|---|
| Content & presentation | Markdown & LaTeX, Mermaid, Maps & Timelines, TikZ, D3 Visualiser, SVG Editor, HTML / CSS / JS |
| Data | Data, Statistics, Graph & Network, Chart Builder |
| Computation & logic | Maths Visualiser, Logic Sandbox, Code Sandbox, 3D Visualiser |
| Discovery, design & art | Science, Engineering, Anatomy & Physiology, Clinical Health, Music, Audio & Storytelling, Design |
Many Stations also offer parametric packages — visuals driven by sliders, toggles, and presets — so one authored piece can become many classroom versions without rewriting everything from scratch.
One way of working across every Station
Wherever you open a Station, you get the same core toolkit:
Editor and live preview
Build on one side, see the result update on the other.
Templates to start from
Open a ready example, then reshape it for your lesson.
Zoom, pan, full screen
Inspect the preview properly before you send it live.
Share and embed
Pass a link, drop an embed, or keep working in My Creations.
Save it. Open it again somewhere else.
Your work is not trapped inside one browser tab. Save a Station project — including parametric packages as JSON — to your own computer, then open it later on another machine or in another session.
Build in a Station
Create the diagram, chart, scene, or interactive package you need.
Download the project file
Keep the JSON (or Station source) on your device — the structure, controls, and values travel with it.
Open it again and compile the same result
Load the file in the matching Station elsewhere. The preview rebuilds from the same package — same controls, same visual logic, ready to teach.
That is the point of portable Workshop work: author once, reopen anywhere you have TeachForge, and keep the teaching object intact.
Export the preview — two ways you will use it
When the live preview looks right, export it for the job in front of you. Most Stations support clear output paths for both screen teaching and files you keep.
SVG — sharp and reusable
Vector output that stays crisp on the board, in documents, on websites, and anywhere else you need a clean diagram that scales.
PNG — ready for slides and shares
A fixed image when you need something quick for a deck, a handout pipeline, or a place that wants a simple picture file.
You also choose an output width for exports and Whiteboard sends, so the captured preview matches how you intend to use it — without fighting the on-page zoom while you edit.
Send it to the Whiteboard
One click takes the current Station output onto the live board. It arrives as an object you can move, resize, and teach with — and you can open it again to re-edit when the lesson needs a different version.
That is the Workshop’s shortest path into the room: build the visual, send it, keep teaching.
Build it into Quest Ladder questions
Workshop output is not only for display. Quest Ladder questions and explanations can carry rich formats — including TikZ, SVG, charts, D3, HTML, and more — so the figure you authored becomes part of the assessment itself.
Same visual, many question versions
Especially with parametric packages, controls can feed question variables so learners meet related-but-different examples.
Explain with the real figure
Put the diagram beside the prompt, the worked idea, or the follow-up — not a fuzzy screenshot from somewhere else.
Carry it into Virtual Lab
Virtual Lab is where interactive explorations live. Workshop craft feeds that surface too: the visuals and interactive pieces you build in Stations can become part of lab experiences learners open, explore, and return to.
Author in the Workshop. Teach on the board. Practise in Quest Ladder. Explore in Virtual Lab. Same body of work, different moments in the learning journey.
It also stands on its own
You do not have to keep every figure inside TeachForge. Build something excellent in a Station, export SVG or PNG, and use it in your own worksheets, LMS, slides, handouts, or another platform entirely.
The Workshop is connected to the rest of The Forge — Whiteboard, Quest Ladder, Virtual Lab, and shared libraries — and it is still a complete toolkit for making assets you simply own.
Independent making
Templates, catalogues, editors, preview, export — finish a teaching visual without leaving the Station.
Connected teaching
Send to Whiteboard, drop into questions, reuse in labs, share with other educators.
AI when you want a draft
Every Station can call on AI to help start or refine work. You stay in charge of what gets used with learners.
Copy the prompt
Generate a prompt, paste it into the chat tool you already use, then bring the draft back into the Station.
Use your own GPU
Point TeachForge at a local model endpoint in your settings and generate on hardware you control.
Use your own API key
Add your provider key in settings and run generation against your own account and quota.
AI can be wrong. That is why drafts land in your editor for review — not straight in front of a class.
How the Workshop feeds everything else
Author in a Station
Make the interactive piece — code, controls, catalogue object, or free build.
Keep or export
Save the project file, export SVG/PNG, share, or embed.
Teach live
Send to Whiteboard and adjust in the moment.
Assess and explore
Reuse the same craft inside Quest Ladder and Virtual Lab.