Canva

GETTING SET UP

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Canva Basics

Learn how to create and edit templates

ADVANCED CANVA TIPS

How to design even faster

What can I use canva for?

Canva for DRAG and Drop assignments

WHY DRag and Drops?

  • This assignment has you lock a background and students can manipulate the foreground -- it's essentially the equivalent of tech manipulatives

  • Great for hooking students with new concepts, providing application of new material, or spiral review.

  • Have students group, classify, compare, contrast, label, or make predictions

  • Because it's Google Slides, it integrates with Schoology

templates

Templates in Canva

Visit these templates if you want to make edits in Canva, and then transfer to Google Slides

Templates in Google Slides

Visit these templates if you want to steal the background directly and move on to editing the manipulatives

Example Drag and Drops

Silk Road Cause and Effect Sort

History

Drag and Drop Cause and Effects

AP Style Crash Course

Journalism

Skill Rules & Practice



Tranfering Canva presentations to Google Slides presentations

Download as .pptx To Drive

BENEFITS: Quickest option. Great for easy transfer of slides.

CHALLENGES: All text and images will still be moveable, but some of your fonts and spacing will have changed. This isn't a great choice for drag and drops because students can manipulate the background

download as .pngs & save as background in google slides

BENEFITS: This locks the background, so it's best for drag and drop assignments. It also will copy everything you created in Canva exactly as you made it.

CHALLENGES: More time consuming

CANVA FOR STUDENTS

How to integrate Schoology and Canva

Add Canva to Schoology

  • Follow the instructions in the video to integrate your Canva and Schoology accounts.

  • Using this method, it'll allow you to push out templates to students, and have them submit right in Schoology.

  • Add Schoology rubrics and sync right to PowerSchool.

  • The video will walk through a student perspective, too!

What kinds of assignments work well as canva assignments?

Visit the Project Planning Page for more ideas

Anything where you want students to visually represent their learning -- individually or in collaboration with each other

  • Mind mapping

  • Infographics

  • Videos

  • Social media campaigns

  • Body biographies

  • Book covers

  • Comic strips/visual storyboarding

  • Group mind mapping