CANVA

What Is It And How To Use Canva?

Canva is an online design tool where you can create communication content: posters, social media images, infographics, presentations, and even videos. It has, broadly speaking, three types of uses:

For whatever someone wants to create; collages, letters, party invitations, calendars, photo editing, etc. You can create a free account with just an email and have access to thousands of templates to let your imagination run wild. Professionally, for large or small companies that want to create a unified image for all their communications. They will have access to business cards, logos, menus, YouTube videos and more. Many of the business features require a subscription. In regards of education, it is an excellent tool for teachers and students, since it facilitates the creation of high quality resources in an easy way. It has been such a successful option that every day more teachers choose it to make their classes more didactic. To sum up, Canva is easy to use and very well suited to all types of users. As we want to highlight the benefits of teaching use, we are going to focus on the features of Canva for Education.

What is Canva for Education Good for?

The features of Canva for Education are quite complete and similar to those of traditional Canva. You have thousands of templates at your disposal to create schedules, infographics, weekly planners, posters, presentations and much more. These templates are free to use, so just put in the information you need and share it with your students. All these templates can also be filtered by school years, which is very useful if you are looking for new ideas for your class. You will find exercises from all subjects in eye-catching designs, which will surely catch the attention of your students. If you want to design your own resources you can also do it. Handling the design tools is very intuitive and you don't need to be an expert to create exceptional presentations, posters or activities. It also give you the best tips for creating creative and engaging slideshows. 

In addition, among the specific functions for teachers is the possibility of working online or on the same design with the students. So, for example, students can leave comments, doubts or answer questions in a presentation that you created or, who knows, maybe you can invite them to create a group presentation or infographic, to encourage them to work as a team from home. Lastly, Canva for education is associated with Google Classroom, so any designs you create can be added to any quizzes, forms, or assignments you have in your Google Classroom.