A tutorial, in education, is a method of transferring knowledge and may be used as a part of a learning process. More interactive and specific than a book or a lecture, a tutorial seeks to teach by example and supply the information to complete a certain task.

Education

In documentation and instructional design, tutorials are teaching-level documents that help the learner progress in skill and confidence.^[7] Tutorials can take the form of a screen recording , a written document (either online or downloadable), interactive tutorial, or an audio file, where a person will give step by step instructions on how to do something.

Tutorials usually have the following characteristics:

• A presentation of the viewusually explaining and showing the user the user interface
• A demonstration of a process, using examples to show how a workflow or process is completed; often broken up into discrete modules or sections.
• Some method of reviewthat reinforces or tests understanding of the content in the related module or section.
• A transition to additional modules or sectionsthat builds on the instructions already provided. Tutorials can be linear or branching.