Rebecca Johnson--Sandi Connelly teaches a large general education biology class at RIT and was looking for a way to add variety to her assignments. She decided to ask students to make brief videos that explained some aspect of the content they’d been learning. Video assignments are not common in STEM classes; students are unlikely to have much prior experience on which to base their work. Connelly provided both a broad set of guidelines for these video assignments, and then a more specific articulation of an assignment related to particular course content.