Interactive Decision Tree
Section 02Design

Three starter templates to design from.

Choose a template to try out building your own interactive decision tree. Each link opens a Google Slides presentation and will prompt you to make a copy before editing.

Using the templates

How to edit the PowerPoint Escape Room

The core mechanic

Every answer is a text box with an invisible shape on top.

Each “button” consist of a textbox with a transparent shape sitting on top of it. That transparent shape is the clickable link. This means you can freely edit answer choices without breaking the links, and you can swap which answer is “correct or incorrect” by simply dragging the shapes over different answers. No hyperlink editing required.

Edit Mode vs Ready to Play: how to slide the transparent link box aside to edit text
  1. 1 Click the answer area. You’ll select a transparent shape. This is the clickable link.
  2. 2 Drag the shape to the side to uncover the text box underneath.
  3. 3 Click the text box and type your question or answer text.
  4. 4 Drag the transparent shape back to cover the text box exactly as it was.
  5. 5 Repeat for each answer. Never delete the transparent shapes - they carry the hyperlinks.
Swapping correct & wrong answers Each question slide has two transparent shapes: one linked to the correct path, one linked to the wrong path. To switch which answer is “correct,” just drag the shapes and swap their positions. No hyperlink editing needed.
How the slides connect

Every question follows the same structure.

You don’t need to re-link slides when you change your content - the structure is already built. Just update the text. Here’s the path a student takes through each question:

Slide flow map showing checkpoint and wrong answer routing Question 2 answer shapes correct Why correct explanation slide Next question or clue slide wrong Why wrong explanation slide Reflection Q 2 answer shapes correct → back to Q Original Q again student now answers correctly wrong → retry reflection correct path wrong path loop back
Each slide has a name - use it to verify your links Every slide in the template is labeled. When you hover over any hyperlink in edit mode, the destination slide’s name appears. So you can confirm exactly where each link will go without having to run multiple tests. Just don’t delete the slide name located below each slide.
The final challenge

How to customize the Final Challenge

After completing all checkpoints, students land on the Final Challenge. Students need to fill in the blanks of the final question to complete the challenge. They will click each key in order, left to right, to spell out the word. Each key is hyperlinked. Here’s how it works:

Final challenge keyboard diagram
  1. 1 In the template you have only one final challenge slide that contains:
    1. A textbox for the final answer
    2. A full alphabet keyboard
    3. One “correct answer” link off to the side
  2. 2 Every letter button is linked as “incorrect”
  3. 3 To start, drag the hidden “answer” link over the first correct letter in the sequence.
  4. 4 Duplicate the initial slide
  5. 5 Reveal the correctly guessed letter in the final answer box
  6. 6 Move the hidden “answer” link to the next correct letter in the sequence
  7. 7 Repeat this process for each missing letter in the final answer
  8. 8 Do not create a keyboard slide for the final letter.
    1. The final correct letter is filled in on the “success” slide