With the first snow falling around our office windows right at the beginning of December, we’re dropping a handful of great news from our headquarters. Here’s a peephole into what we’ve been up to during November.

Switching on the tech solution for discounts with BDG tokens earned by learning, expanding reach in the Turkish locale, enabling user discussions on lectures, attending a valuable SEO event — have a read about all the great achievements that have been making BitDegree a better place to learn!

BDG tokens to pay for courses: switched ON

The process of generating more value from the gamified learning on BitDegree is getting momentum. If you happened to scratch your head thinking, ‘what’s the use of collecting those BDG tokens when I complete lessons?’, then finally, we’ve got good news for you. We made it possible to use BDG tokens earned from learning for paying up to 50% for the courses on BitDegree. Now completing lessons, solving daily challenges, improving your profile on the BitDegree platform has gained a new meaning, which is also practical. It pays to learn whatever skills you need!

Unbeatable price tags on all courses

Fostering the Thanksgiving spirit in November, it’s nice to share and make our product more available to a broader range of students. That’s what Black Friday has been invented for, right? It feels good when offering the best possible prices for enrolling in courses on BitDegree! And just in case you didn’t manage to jump into that train, we’ve extended the most fabulous offer (all courses under $5!) for 7 more days into December — the Cyber Week!

Community discussions on each lecture enabled

Want to praise the lecturer for the on-spot examples and tips? Or, in contrast, let him and fellow students know you couldn’t quite follow the unclear explanations? Want to elaborate on some issues involved or help other learners by answering their questions? Now you can do all this and more since our dev team has enabled discussions on every single lesson of any course on BitDegree. Let’s fuel the learning community with more communication!

Spreading into realms where students speak Turkish

BitDegree localization processes have shifted to a higher gear, and now our tutorials are available to a broad community in Turkey. Hopefully, in the globalized world, there will be more and more students who are able to absorb the coding theory in English. However, since there are challenging concepts that need to be understood well right from the beginning, we’re facilitating this process by translating our valuable material into different languages. So, all Turkish-speaking students have received a great present! Our Vietnamese and Chinese colleagues are busy to bring the same good into their environment.

Sharing valuable SEO tools with a broader audience

Members of the BitDegree’s SEO team attended a Tesonet’s SEO event. We shared valuable experience about our researched and developed data correlation model and also presented a handy CRM/Brand visibility tracking tool to enhance the capacity of Google Sheets for SEO purposes. It might all sound a bit serious, but it actually was a data-heavy presentation with cheerful elements included to make the audience engaged in the note-taking process! And, of course, we carefully listened to other presenters talking on how to combine data with user experience. We’ll apply the gained knowledge in taking even more professional care of our users so that we can help them find the relevant information quickly and keep our page fresh.

How have you been doing so far this year? Since we’ve moved into the last month of the last quarter, we’ve got no time for drinking lemonade lazily. Don’t forget to enjoy the festive times, though! Until next time.