Creates a transparent rectangle over the slide. Saves many steps in having to create this manually. You can hyperlink the rectangle to act as a button.
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Teachers! Stop the accidental slide advance and create interactive presentations in seconds!

You use Google Slides™ to create amazing things: Escape Rooms, Choice Boards, Interactive Kiosks, and Tutorials. But there is one big problem. When a student clicks anywhere on the slide, it automatically jumps to the next slide.

Clear Rectangle by AliceKeeler solves this. This Add-on instantly generates a transparent layer over your slide. It creates a giant "hotspot" for hyperlinks.

FEATURES INCLUDED:

✅ One Big Rectangle: Creates a full-screen transparent shape. It prompts you to paste a URL. Leave it blank  or paste a link to turn the whole slide into a button.

⛔ Bottom Edge: Covers the top 90% of the slide with a transparent rectangle, leaving the bottom 10% open. Prompts for URL to hyperlink. Perfect for easy access to built in Slides™ tools. 

⏩ No Advance Slide: Automatically hyperlinks the clear rectangle to the current slide. This stops the slide from advancing when clicked. It now asks if you want to apply this to just the current slide or ALL slides at once!

📑 Link Summary Slide: Lose track of your links? This feature scans your entire presentation for external websites and generates a new slide at the end with a list of every resource you used.

🏠 Home Button: Adds a clear rectangle plus a "Home" icon that links back to the first slide.

📖 Table of Contents: Generates a new slide listing your slide titles for easy navigation.

🪁 Bulk Actions: Apply these settings to a single slide or the entire presentation instantly.

🔐 BECOME A PREMIUM MEMBER While these tools are free to use, AliceKeeler Premium Membership supports the development of this and other Add-ons for educators. Get help with this Add-on, access exclusive Premium-only Add-ons, and support a teacher-developer! Join today at http://alicekeeler.com/membership

PRIVACY PROMISE Collects NO USER DATA. COPPA and FERPA compliant. No PII is collected or sold.

Check out more of Alice's Add-ons at http://alicekeeler.com/codedbyalice
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Cammie Marks
August 3, 2023
At first I didn't understand why I would want to add a clear rectangle on top of Google Slides but now I use it in almost all presentations. Great idea and a time saver.
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Hung Carle
May 28, 2023
Holy cow I needed this. Adding rectangles with transparency to slides is something I do a lot and it is so tedious. this saved me a lot of time.
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Beata Mcanally
March 10, 2023
I have been adding a clear rectangle over my slides for years to keep my students from accidentally moving things on the slide. This saves me a lot of time.
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