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Canva Education

We have a Canva Education account. This has lots of useful templates that you can use for your slides and worksheets. Check it out here:

https://www.canva.com/templates/

Canva Image Search tips

Canva has so many images to search from that it can be overwhelming. This video shows a quick tip on how to find more of the images you want.

Image search canva.mov

Adding your favourite colour palette to your slide or worksheet

If you have a favourite colour palette and would like to personalize a template for your class you can do it like this:

Changing the colour palette.mov

Adding a timer

If you would like a timer on a slide you can add it by pressing a number 1-9 when you are presenting. You can also add music to the timer.

You can find the help page here: https://www.canva.com/help/set-timer/

Magic Shortcuts when presenting in Canva

If you want to brighten up a presentation you can press certain letters to show different animations.

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Image Background Remover

Removing the background from an image could be a bit fiddly. Canva has made it easy! Removing backgrounds makes your images stand out.

To do it you need to:

Canva Mail Merge to bulk create labels

You can now import your google sheets or excel documents into canva to mail merge. This could be useful for creating labels for books, cubbies. or certificates. Here is a link to a tiktok tutorial to show you how.

Avery the adhesive labels also allow you to import your canva designs. You can do this by going to https://www.avery.com/templates.

Here you can select the sticker sheet and import your labels.

Canva Droptober

Here are a few additions that can support teachers.

Dream Lab

Canva are working with Leonardo ai to create better ai images.

The tool means you have more options than magic draw.

By adding your prompt and clicking the smart button you have

different options for your image.

dream lab smart function.mov

Magic write

Canva are updating magic write to act more like the chatgpt function.

magic write.mov

Elementary Work Kits

They have added a few new work kits. click on the link

above to explore.

There are exit cards, feelings check ins, brainstorm

digital workbooks and station rotations that you might

want to check out.

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Canva Create Uncharted

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Interesting Points to note:

You will able to have all your workflow in one place. So you can have your teacher presentation and worksheets all in one stream they don't need to be saved separately.

Canva Sheets: Canva will have more data opportunities that will link directly to it's charts feature.

Canva code: Canva will use AI to create your code for you in the exmaple you can do this for creating revision tools including games and flash cards.

Design with Ai: Improving it's Ai tools

Magic Studio Ai tool: You can bulk create an item and then use features to alter them, ie translate the document into multiple languages.

Canva Projects

Organising your Canva presentations and slides is becoming more of a necessity now we are using it a lot more. If all your presentations are all filed under 'Recent Designs' and you are finding it difficult to find your resources, this post is for you.

Canva project organisation.mp4

Canva Quizzes

Canva has added a quiz option to their slides. You can paste in some text and it will create a multiple choice question for you. You can also choose from the elements tab different kind of quizzes including polls. The video is below.

Creating Engaging Quizzes 🎉.mp4

Canva Suite +

When you are making your Canva slides you might have noticed there is now an + sign. This sign shows that you now can add all your documnets in one place. This can be useful if you are making a presentation but also want your worksheets, data all in the same place. See it in action here.

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