Tech Tuesday

Canva for Education is here!

I’m pleased to share that we’ve recently launched Canva for Education district-wide! Canva makes it easy to create, collaborate, and communicate visually - in the classroom and beyond. If you’ve never heard of Canva for Education, you can learn more about the tool here.

With Canva for Education, you can create education presentations, lesson plans, worksheets, reports, posters, and more. You can empower your students through authentic assessments and tasks, enabling them to create beautiful, real-world deliverables quickly and easily. You can use Canva for student assignments and enable real-time collaboration on Canva projects.

Everyone with a district email address will receive all the benefits of Canva for Education, including all of Canva’s “pro” features, at no cost and with no validation or application required. If you are new to Canva and do not already have an account created with your WPS Google account, you can log in to our new Canva district team with your district credentials at www.canva.com. You can also access Canva through Google by:

clicking on the waffle (Google apps launcher) in the upper right-hand corner of any Gmail, Google Drive, or Calendar screen
after clicking on the waffle, scroll down through the apps until you see the Canva icon
click the Canva icon
log in with your WPS Google account.

If you already have a Canva account with your WPS Google account please follow the directions in this slideshow. This is very important so your accounts can be linked. Once you complete these steps you can log in using the steps above.

Please take some time to review this teacher onboarding guide from the team at Canva. We encourage everyone to review these materials, as there are some aspects of the district Canva platform that will differ from what you may be used to if you’ve already used Canva. If you already have a Canva account under your district email address it’s especially important to pay attention to the pages that have to do with logging in, switching teams, and copying files. You can view just those pages in Canva’s Login Instructions, here.

If you have any questions about Canva, getting started, or would like to learn more about using Canva in the classroom, you can contact me. Also, feel free to reach out to Heather Fox. She'd be glad to help you and/or your students get started. If you are a secret Canva poweruser and would be willing to share your skills, please reach out to me! There are also lots of great resources available from the Canva Design School.