TF Live Webcast - How to make a tutorial September 1st, 2018

 Welcome to Ten Forums Live Webcast - How to make a tutorial on September 1st, 2018

Fellow geeks, Ten Forums & Windows 10 enthusiasts and Insiders:

This is an open invitation to TF Live Webcast - How to make a tutorial on September 1st, 2018. Come and meet your fellow TF members and Windows Insiders in a live chat. This time the topic is how to make a tutorial.

At the moment I am writing this, we have 2,188 tutorials on Ten Forums. The index shows over 3,000, but that is because some tutorials are listed several times with different title to make it easier to search one to cater your needs.

One member alone has made over 2,100 of these tutorials, our own admin and tutorial guru @Brink. I've made some 60 tutorials, a few other members have made one each.

As it is, Ten Forums is the best available source for Windows 10 tutorials, thanks to Brink.

However, quite often we can see that our members are posting some excellent tips to show how to do something specific in Windows 10. It would benefit not only our members, but all Windows 10 users in general if we could make these tips and tricks to a tutorial.

This time the TF Live Webcast will focus on tutorials. We will work together to learn how to make an understandable, easy to read tutorial.

Join us and learn how you could help fellow Windows 10 users and Insiders by creating a tutorial to show something other users would like to read.

TF Live Webcast will start on Saturday, 1st of September 2018 at 19:00 (7 PM) UTC. Please check the start time in your time zone here: Event Time Announcer - TenForums Live - How to make a tutorial

It will show you the start time in your local time zone at right, under "Converted time", in 12 or 24 hour clock depending on your location:



Link to join the webcast will be posted in this thread half an hour before the webcast starts. You will not need any email, Ten Forums or other account to join, you can be completely anonymous if you so prefer. It would be nice if you used the Ten Forums username to join, but if you do not want to reveal your identity, please choose any name you prefer to join.

See you aspiring tutorial writers on Saturday!

Kari

By the way geeks, if you are interested to learn how to make easy to read tutorials, you might want to start from this I wrote for our sister site Seven Forums years ago: https://www.sevenforums.com/tutorial...tutorials.html

It shows how to use BB Code to format your tutorial submissions. Although written to Seven Forums, most of it will still apply here on Ten Forums.

Kari

Thanks, Kari. If I can fit it in/remember it, I'll be there.

Is it really only a 30 minute session? Are you sure you can pound the instructions into my head in that short a time?

Wynona said:

Is it really only a 30 minute session? Are you sure you can pound the instructions into my head in that short a time?

No, I made a mistake. The time in your local time zone link should have said 1 hour 30 minutes. Link (and screenshot) is fixed now.

Kari said:

No, I made a mistake. The time in your local time zone link should have said 1 hour 30 minutes. Link (and screenshot) is fixed now.

Thanks, Kari. I feel better now.

I noticed that quite a many guests are reading this thread now. Did you know that you don't have to be a member of Ten Forums to join our live webcasts? Just click the link posted here half an hour we start to join completely anonymous.

Of course we would like you to join us, but if you really prefer not to do that, you can still follow and join our webcasts.

I try to schedule my time accordingly!

Hey all,

On a related note to this TF Session, I have just tried to use the Steps Recorder application built into Windows and as a simple guide, I decided to show how to use the compact VHD option in Hyper-V (this will be talked about more in the TF session).

I simply started the Recorder, did all the normal steps and stopped the Steps Recorder

I saved it - it saves as an mht web file in a zip file and looks like as below (I extracted mht file)

Microsoft OneDrive - Access files anywhere. Create docs with free Office Online.

I then opened file up in MS Word and did a bit of formatting and tidying up as follows

Microsoft OneDrive - Access files anywhere. Create docs with free Office Online.

No more laborious cut and paste with snipping tool for me!

cereberus said:

Hey all,

On a related note to this TF Session, I have just tried to use the Steps Recorder application built into Windows and as a simple guide, I decided to show how to use the compact VHD option in Hyper-V (this will be talked about more in the TF session).

I simply started the Recorder, did all the normal steps and stopped the Steps Recorder

I saved it - it saves as an mht web file in a zip file and looks like as below (I extracted mht file)

Microsoft OneDrive - Access files anywhere. Create docs with free Office Online.

I then opened file up in MS Word and did a bit of formatting and tidying up as follows

Microsoft OneDrive - Access files anywhere. Create docs with free Office Online.

No more laborious cut and paste with snipping tool for me!

Devil's Advocate here . . . what happens if you mess up the steps while using Steps Recorder?

Wynona said:

Devil's Advocate here . . . what happens if you mess up the steps while using Steps Recorder?

Be it a tutorial, a reply to help another member or an email you are composing to help your friend, mistakes happens. Step recorder is in fact a pretty good idea, kudos to @Martin.

Although I have only written a few tutorials, it has happened that I have left out one critical step and one screenshot. First member to leave a reply has then said "this did not work".

Windows Step Recorder is pretty reliable tool, I think I will start using it more now after reading about Martin's tip.

Kari