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So if you're like me and you do a lot of training sessions or you do a lot of
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professional learning I'm going to show you a great tool that's available on any
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version of Windows and it's called Steps Recorder. Steps Recorder is going to make
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your life a lot easier especially if you like to share screenshots or use
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tutorials. The first thing you have to do is go to the search menu inside Windows
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go ahead and type in Steps Recorder. You should see this app that should
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automatically be preloaded on your version of Windows. Once you launch it
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you'll see this little menu that pops up right at the top. Now when I hit record
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what Steps Recorder will do is it will take a snapshot of each step that I take
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This is great if you're trying to visually model how to do certain
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processes. So for this one I'm going to show you maybe a few different features
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of the Edge browser and how to open a new in private window. So I'm going to
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hit start record. Okay this pops up just like that. You'll notice that when I
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click on those areas you'll see a red dot. Each time I do that Steps Recorder
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is actually taking a snapshot. So let me show you if I click on the collection
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part over here this pops up. Let's go ahead and we'll click on our favorites
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and now let's go over to our ellipse. Let's click on new in private window
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This will pop up and I'll go and add that link to CNN that I had previously
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favorited. Okay so I just did really quick three four little step process
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Let's go ahead and hit stop record. Stop recording and now you'll notice that it
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this window pops up and you'll be able to see each step that I was able to do
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And you'll notice that the window that I was interacting with is highlighted in
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green. This again is great if you're trying to create handouts you can very
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easily take each snapshot copy and paste it to Word document to a Canva document
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to a Google document. Any type of media that you would like to share. So this
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will not only give me a step and a highlighted section it also gives you
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brief directions in terms of what was done as well as a time stamp and a date
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If I go all the way up to the top what's kind of cool is this will allow you to
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review the steps in a slideshow. It's a little bit tough to see now but it
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basically is just showing one step to the other to the other. It does give you
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the option to manually hit preview or next. So kind of a cool feature there as
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well that you're looking at. Now there is an option to save it. Now I typically
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haven't done much with this. When you hit save it saves it as a zip file. I'll show
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you why when I open this as a zip file it just kind of appears as an HTML
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document. Now you can go to websites and convert this to like a PDF if you would
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like but I typically just keep it open and copy and paste each of these
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snapshots to a help document or to maybe a PowerPoint presentation that I'm
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using. So I hope this video has been helpful for you. Again if you're looking
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to make really quick and easy handouts from any device with Windows go ahead
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and try Steps Recorder
