This is perfect!! I've seen other escape rooms that are WAY too complicated to design. I teach elementary and pre-k Spanish, I'm so excited! Thank you for sharing!!!
I understand how to make a transparent shape and insert a link but why do you put a huge transparent shape over the whole slide? I apologize if you've already answered this above, I didn't catch it.
I figured out that putting the big transparent shape over the slide trick before viewing this video, but I'm still having an issue with the fact that if a student scrolls on their mousepad, the slide will advance to the next slide. This is similar to the spacebar thing that I had NOT discovered yet:( Any workarounds that anyone knows of? Wouldn't it be great if Google came up with a feature that would disable a user advancing slides unless they clicked on something specific?
Couldn't you just create each slide in its own slide show and link each next slide into a small arrow? The coolest would be if you could program that arrow to not appear for about 2 minutes or so. I bet you could rig that in 'animate'.
Wonderful video! But how can you prevent students just from clicking on the slides, so that they can quickly move forward and backwards in the presentation/escape room?
I have a question about your exit ticket. Along my activity the kids will have solved riddles and collected 8 letters. At the end they will unscramble the letters to make a word and word is what is get them "out" of the room. I do not want them to put their answer on a Google form. Can they put their answer on the last slide someshow and send it to me. I would of course have to assign a copy to each kid. Does this make sense. In your video, I couldn't see what your exit ticket would look like when you clicked on it.
You can add an extra slide at the end of the form and make a copy for each student just like you suggested. The reason I like using Google Forms is because it is easy to see their responses by just clicking through. If you make a copy for each student with the last page being the answer form, you will need to reopen the slide show for each student that you grade. I usually send my assignments out to over 100 students so I go through the Google Form. Whatever works for you is best though!
@@christinasnyder6298 The reason I am saying I'd rather not do a Google form right now is because I will be doing this with rising second graders who have little to no experience with the forms. Plus I may be doing remote learning with brand new students as you probably know. 😊
Thank you! Just one question. When I finished mine and put it in Present mode- if the kids hit there space bar it just goes to the next slide. Is there any way to prevent that?
@@christinasnyder6298 I GOT IT!!!!! When you put the transparent shape over the slide- link it to that specific slide!!! Then when they click around it does not go anywhere until they click the right shape to go on!!! It works! Thanks again
@@jessicagualario329 That prevents the clicking, but does it prevent the space bar? The transparent shape is the KEY to making good Google Slides presentations!
@@christinasnyder6298 If you select every slide aside from perhaps the introduction slide, and hide them, you can still use links to get them to navigate the "hidden" slides but then they shouldn't be able to just automatically proceed.
Loved the insight on how to use google slides for escape rooms. Thank you for posting. I have one critique though, I play a saxophone and it is not a member of the woodwind family, it is part of the brass family. Perhaps swap it out for a clarinet.
@@christinasnyder6298 OK. Had to look that one up. We were always seated next to the trumpets with the tubas right behind us. My band director would send brass to go do something and we were part of that group. Interesting to know that he had us labeled wrong. Eight years in band and I never knew my saxophone is consider to be a woodwind. Thank you for the clarification, I learned something new today and not just how to do escape rooms for my math class.
