Screencasts are an easy, fun alternative to the legal research guide. They give professors a new tool to assess students’ learning, and they give law students the opportunity to exercise their professional and technological skills, demonstrate relatively in-depth substantive knowledge, create relevant course content, and produce a digital sample of work that could be a unique addition to a résumé. This article describes a screencast assignment in two advanced legal research classes, practical suggestions to ensure the assignment is a success, and the pedagogical and practice-oriented benefits of this type of assignment for law students.