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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
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