diff --git a/doc/Doxyfile.in b/doc/Doxyfile.in
index 5a0dc8225d..0a0b6a5f6b 100644
--- a/doc/Doxyfile.in
+++ b/doc/Doxyfile.in
@@ -983,7 +983,8 @@ WARN_LOGFILE           =
 
 INPUT                  = @top_srcdir@/src \
                          @top_srcdir@/mesh_handle \
-                         @top_srcdir@/test
+                         @top_srcdir@/test \
+                         @top_srcdir@/tutorials/mesh_handle
 
 # This tag can be used to specify the character encoding of the source files
 # that Doxygen parses. Internally Doxygen uses the UTF-8 encoding. Doxygen uses
diff --git a/scripts/configure_for_rtd.sh b/scripts/configure_for_rtd.sh
index c728d4ee62..af4001e252 100755
--- a/scripts/configure_for_rtd.sh
+++ b/scripts/configure_for_rtd.sh
@@ -44,7 +44,8 @@ if [ "$READTHEDOCS" = "True" ]; then
     fi
     echo "Configuring Doxygen for ReadTheDocs: Excluding source files."
     # Exclude source files from documentation
-    echo "EXCLUDE_PATTERNS += *.c *.cc *.cpp *.cxx" >> "$DOXYFILE_PATH"
+    echo "EXCLUDE_PATTERNS += */src/*.c */src/*.cc */src/*.cpp */src/*.cxx" >> "$DOXYFILE_PATH"
+    echo "EXCLUDE_PATTERNS += */test/*.c */test/*.cc */test/*.cpp */test/*.cxx" >> "$DOXYFILE_PATH"
 fi
 
 cmake .. -DT8CODE_BUILD_DOCUMENTATION=ON -DT8CODE_BUILD_DOCUMENTATION_SPHINX=ON -DT8CODE_ENABLE_MPI=OFF
diff --git a/tutorials/mesh_handle/t8_mesh_element_data.cxx b/tutorials/mesh_handle/t8_mesh_element_data.cxx
index 03249f0002..bda3186d1d 100644
--- a/tutorials/mesh_handle/t8_mesh_element_data.cxx
+++ b/tutorials/mesh_handle/t8_mesh_element_data.cxx
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@
 #include <memory>
 #include <span>
 
-/* The data that we want to store for each element.
+/** The data that we want to store for each element.
  * In this example we want to store the element's level and volume. */
 struct data_per_element_type
 {
@@ -139,8 +139,8 @@ exchange_ghost_data_mesh (TMeshClass &mesh)
  *                  and  T8_VTK_VECTOR - 3 doubles per element
  * \tparam TMeshClass     The mesh handle class.
  * \param [in] mesh       The mesh handle.
- * \param [in] fileprefix The prefix of the files where the vtk will be stored.
- *             The master file is then fileprefix.pvtu and the process with rank r writes in the file fileprefix_r.vtu
+ * \param [in] prefix The prefix of the files where the vtk will be stored.
+ *             The master file is then prefix.pvtu and the process with rank r writes in the file prefix_r.vtu
  */
 template <t8_mesh_handle::T8MeshType TMeshClass>
 static void