Other forms: tutorials
A tutorial is a small teaching session with close guidance, or a how-to lesson online. A weekly tutorial, book a tutorial, watch a tutorial.
The university sense is a session of one to three students with a tutor, which is the format Oxford and Cambridge are built around and the most expensive way to teach anybody. The internet sense has almost overtaken it. Note tutor; and that the Latin tutor means a protector or guardian.
1nountutorialA small teaching session with close guidance.
“Each week she meets her professor and two other students for a tutorial.”
2nounlessonA how-to lesson, especially online.
“I learned how to fix my bike by watching a video tutorial.”
tutorial is a lesson.
Tutor plus -ial, from Latin tutor, a guardian, from tueri, to watch over. Tuition and tutelage come from the same watching.
Latin
tūtor — watcher, protector, defender
English, today
tutorial
The adjective is from tutor + -ial, ultimately from Latin tūtor (“watcher, protector, defender”). The noun is transferred from the adjective.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA