Purpose: Canva is an online platform for creating graphic designs, presentations, websites, video projects, and more. Canva for Education is a designed specifically for teachers and students with education-specific templates including posters, lesson plans, presentations, flyers, whiteboards and more.
License: PGCPS teachers, staff and students will have access to Canva for Education. This license includes all* of Canva’s premium features for free.
*based on what the district has enabled/disabled
Access: As of June 2024, all users will have to use Clever or SSO to sign in. More details are below.
Canva for Education will be available through Clever starting on June 3, 2024.
Sign into Clever
Select the Canva for Education icon
For teachers, Clever will roster your existing students so you can create Canva assignments.
Go to Canva.com
Select Log In
Select Continue with Google
Enter your full PGCPS email address
Click Next
Enter your PGCPS username and password then click Login
If prompted, follow the on-screen prompts for 2-Step Verification
Click Continue
Clever users, the next time you log out and log back into Canva, you’ll be joined to the new school team.
Non-Clever (most of Central Office) users will be added to Staff & Admin group.
Your pre-existing content will be accessible by switching between teams; you can copy designs to your new school team by following these steps.
Please read the Canva teacher’s guide, even if you’ve used Canva before – there are a few differences between our new organization-wide version of Canva and versions you may have used in the past.