Canva in the Classroom

Facilitator: Dr. Bruce Ellis (@DrBruceEllis) | https://bit.ly/LLSurpriseCanva

Launched in 2013, Canva is an online design and publishing tool with a mission to empower everyone in the world to design anything and publish anywhere.

Whether you’re a teacher or student, Canva for Education makes it easy to create, collaborate, and communicate visually in the classroom and beyond. It’s 100% free for K12 teachers and their students.

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Pro Features Include

- Access to 100+ million premium stock photos, videos, audio, and graphics to use anywhere and everywhere
- Background Remover will analyze your photo and remove the background in one swipe. Similar to using remove.bg
- Magic Resize lets you create one design and easily resize it to the correct format and dimensions - ideal for social platform or printing.
- Schedule posts ahead of time to communicate at the exact time you want and to the platforms that you use

Features Explore

- LMS Integrations - Integrate Canva in your LMS to make it easy to access and use for class. LMSes include Canvas, Schoology, Google Classroom, D2L, Blackboard, Moodle, and Microsoft Teams. If you happen to be using a different LMS than one in that list, then just shoot them an email and request and LMS integration. Go to LMS Integrations and scroll down to see various templates to help you make your LMS attractive and helpful.
- Social-Emotional Learning Activities - Here you will find worksheets, graphics, and more to help you better support your students well-being.

Education Creators

Education Creators is an exciting new program within Canva that allows teachers around the world to create, publish, and earn from their designs in Canva. It was launched in June 2020 and is now starting to build a marketplace with quality teacher resource templates.

Templates to Use with Students

You will find tons of resources in the Education category of Canva. Expand the Categories (left-hand pane) then then expand Education to view the subcategories.

Group Work templates - A little more than 60 templates available to jump start your creativity with your lessons so students can start working as a team.

Presentation templates - Almost 100 presentation templates for you to use with your students. Use the filtering feature to find ones most suited to your needs.

Video templates - Have your students use Canva and a video template to create engaging and attractive videos that demonstrate their understanding of your content! Select from such categories as Facebook videos, video message, mobile video, video collage, YouTube video, and Feed ad videos.

Report templates - With 800+ report templates, you and your students will be able to design a report that is as attractive as it is informative. Use the search feature (near the top) to narrow down which report template you might want to use.