Overview
Canva is a free, web-based graphic design tool. With its pre-designed elements, extensive multi-media library, and ready-made templates, this tool that allows anyone to easily create social media posts, presentations, posters, flyers, infographics, and more.
Canva’s learning curve is extremely gentle; the drag-and-drop functionality and templates make for quick and easy designs that can even be customized. Users can even upload their own media.
Signing up for Canva is simple; users can set up a free account using either an email, Google account, or Facebook login. Canva Free gets you more than 250,000 templates, more than 100 design types, hundreds of thousands of photos and graphics, collaboration, and 5GB of cloud storage.
Pros
- Ease of use
- Unlimited free version
- Creates professional-looking projects
- Templates and royalty-free multi media
Cons
- Basic editing features
- Limited options for exporting
This is my go-to tools for all things visual. I’ve used it to create announcements for social media, certificates for our events, and invitations. The templates drastically cut down on design time but still customize to UCA’s colors and adjust font to my liking. There’s no sense in re-inventing the wheel!
Classroom Application
Design presentations
Use Canva to visually lay out the presentations as a teacher or have your students create their own stunning presentations.
Build student profiles
Have students create learning portfolios so they can see how they’re progressing throughout the year — this can also be a valuable revision and review tool.
Collaborate
With up to 10 members in a project, students can work together, in class and digitally from home, to create a finished body of work.
Chart graphics
Ideal for math and science, Canva can be used to display data in rich charts and graphs to make presenting experiments, and more, visually engaging.
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