Creating Linkable Tutorials The Highlights

The Highlights

Your Tutorial Must Meet a Need You must create a tutorial about something people really want Get ideas from questions people ask in various places like comments or social media

You must create a tutorial about something people really want

Get ideas from questions people ask in various places like comments or social media

Use The Three T's Tell them what you're going to tell them Tell them Tell them what you told them

Tell them what you're going to tell them

Tell them

Tell them what you told them

Address Learning Modalities Everybody learns differently Your tutorial will be more effective if you address different learning methods: Visual Auditory Kinesthetic (hands on)

Everybody learns differently

Your tutorial will be more effective if you address different learning methods:

Visual

Auditory

Kinesthetic (hands on)

Taking Steps Help your reader prepare to go through the steps with proper set up Number the steps Keep pictures, video, and other media within related steps

Help your reader prepare to go through the steps with proper set up

Number the steps

Keep pictures, video, and other media within related steps

Test Runs Take a test run of your tutorial—make sure it works Have others test it and get feedback

Take a test run of your tutorial—make sure it works

Have others test it and get feedback

Durations Keep it under 45 minutes For long tutorials, break them up into parts

Keep it under 45 minutes

For long tutorials, break them up into parts