Using Scribe to Create Tutorials Easily
Making a Librarian's Job A Lot Easier
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Creating Professional Looking Tutorials
As a teaching librarian, I often get asked questions about how to perform a task or use software to complete a task. Especially when questions are asked over a virtual platform, it is often much easier to use visuals to demonstrate a process; which patrons and students find very helpful.
However, these can often take a bit of time depending on the complexity of the task. I found software that has proven to be very helpful in the time reduction required to make step-by-step tutorials with screenshots.
Scribe
Scribe lets you take a screen recording of the process of doing a task, generates screenshots, and then prompts the different steps. You then edit it to suit your needs for the steps.
Scribe has a free and paid version. There are more neat features included in the paid version, however, the free version is very robust and you can create a tutorial easily within just a few minutes.
Google Sheets Tutorial
I created a tutorial that teaches readers how to use data validation to create a dropdown menu in Google Sheets took less than a minute to get all of the screenshots I needed. Then in less than 10-minutes, my tutorial was edited and ready to be published.
Features
Free Version:
Unlimited Scribe Viewers
Unlimited Scribe projects
Ability to collaborate
Create linked or embed code to share on web platforms
Google SSO
Export to PDF files
Paid Version:
All features of the free version plus:
Branding guides and advanced editing capabilities
Export to different file types and platforms
Engagement insights
Advanced image editing capabilities
Game Changer For Librarians
This software is a total game-changer. Taking screenshots, uploading and downloading the images, writing the steps can take quite a bit of time. The same tutorial could have easily taken me forty-five minutes without Scribe. Many types of librarians would find this very helpful in their instruction and reference toolbelts.