A trick many lecturers are utilizing to hack Google Slides is to position a clear rectangle on Google Slides. Why you would possibly ask? Placing a transparent rectangle over Google Slides offers you extra management over the slides when in presentation mode. Simply go to the shapes menu and put a rectangle over your Google Slide. Set the fill and border to clear. As simple as that’s, it’s tedious. After you’ve executed it just a few occasions you’ll want for a quicker manner! Now there’s!!

Clear Rectangle Google Slides

I coded it! It is tremendous simple to make use of and collects NO person information! Install all of my Google Workspace Add-ons at alicekeeler.com/codedbyalice. Clear Rectangle by AliceKeeler shortly provides a clear rectangle over the present Google Slide or over all of the slides.

How Does This Help Me?

You could also be pondering, this appears dumb. I actually thought so the primary time somebody advised to me to place a transparent rectangle on a Google Slide.

Invisible Button

When you click on the Slideshow button in Google Slides to current the content material of your slides you lose entry to the Speaker Notes. You are in presentation mode. If you wish to hyperlink out to a different useful resource you will have to have some form of button or hyperlink in your slide. By including a transparent rectangle over your slide you primarily flip the complete slide right into a button. Use Control Okay to hyperlink to an exterior useful resource.

Control Navigation

When going by a Google Slides presentation you may click on on the slide to go to the subsequent slide. However, what in case you do NOT need college students/customers to go to the subsequent slide. If you could have a alternative board or select your personal journey you wish to have extra management over how the presentation is navigated. The trick for that is to hyperlink the clear rectangle again to the identical slide. So when the slide is clicked the person is hyperlinked proper again to the place they already are.

This forces them to make use of buttons you’ve positioned over the clear rectangle to navigate by the selection board.

In ANY Google Slides use the Extensions menu to pick out Clear Rectangle by AliceKeeler.

One Big Rectangle

Add a transparent rectangle that covers the complete Google Slide. Use Control Okay to hyperlink the clear rectangle to any useful resource.

Per Slide

The first possibility provides the rectangle solely to the present slide. To shortly add a transparent rectangle to ALL your slides merely select “Per Slide.” You’ll nonetheless have to undergo and manually hyperlink every clear rectangle. What do you wish to occur when the person clicks on the slide?

Home Button

AFTER including a transparent rectangle to every slide you will have buttons on high of the clear rectangle to navigate the presentation. Use “Home Button” so as to add a button to the navigate to the primary slide.

No Advance Slide

Do you wish to forestall the person from mechanically advancing to the subsequent slide? Use the “No Advance Slide” possibility. This will mechanically place a transparent rectangle over all of the slides and every rectangle will mechanically be linked to the identical slide.

Bottom Edge

If your need is to create a button on the slide however not impair your means to click on on the slide to advance to the subsequent slide, use “Bottom Edge.” This creates a 90% clear rectangle over the slide. The backside 10% won’t be coated. You might want to manually hyperlink the clear rectangle utilizing Control Okay.

Bottom Edge All

If you need the 90% rectangle on all of the slides, select “Bottom Edge All.”

Create Table of Contents

Want a slide that mechanically creates navigation to the opposite slides? Choose “Table of Contents” to mechanically add a slide to the highest that has a button linking to every slide.

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Transparent Rectangle Google Slides