Tibetan reaches a keyboard by two roads. Wylie, a transliteration devised by Turrell Wylie in 1959, spells each Tibetan letter with Latin letters, ka, kha, ga, nga, so that anyone who can type English can type Tibetan and let the computer convert it. The native layouts put the Tibetan letters themselves on the keys. Both are worth knowing, and neither is taught anywhere.
The typing tutor teaches the first road, and it is open now. Ten units take a learner from the thirty consonants through the vowels, the suffixes and prefixes, the superscripts and subscripts and the stacks, to real words, sentences and paragraphs, with a placement test for anyone who already knows some, a review of what has been missed, and a record of progress kept on the device. Beside the lessons is a free-write studio: type Wylie, see Tibetan, and copy, download or print what you wrote.
The tutor is bodyig, a Terma Heritage Foundation project, brought into Genla whole. Its Wylie conversion is jsewts, the Buddhist Digital Resource Center’s transliterator, so what it produces is what the scholarly world uses.