Tip #5: Video Self-Checks

One thing that I stumbled on and then my students praised was the idea of self-checks embedded in the tutorials I create. This sounds like common sense right. Last year, I would forget and students would get bent out of shape. :-) They said that the self-checks really helped. I try to put self-checks in after a minute or two of the tutorial or after each small subsection. I also try to put in a "you should have learned" section at the end of tutorials. Students say this helps because if they don't feel like they understand something from the "you should have learned" they know they should go back and rewatch.