Canva - ¿Qué? ¿Por qué? ¿Cómo?

Introduction

What?

Canva is a free graphic design platform that allows you to easily create invitations, business cards, flyers, lesson plans, Zoom backgrounds, and more using professionally designed templates. Canva is home to thousands of free, professionally designed templates that, thanks to their drag and drop interface, can be customized with just a few clicks. Simply upload your photos to Canva, drop them into the template of your choice, and save the file to your computer.

Canva is a powerful design tool that can be used in education to create projects that not only look great but also help teach students the basics of digital design. This is a free tool that allows students and teachers to work with photo editing, design layout, and more, all within an easy-to-use platform. While this can be used by students to submit projects, it can also teach them how to work more creatively when laying out work. Teachers can also use the platform to create guidance, posters, and more for the classroom and beyond. Canva is well integrated with Google Classroom, making it a very helpful addition for those institutions already using that platform. This guide will lay out all you need to know about Canva for use in education and includes some helpful tips and tricks to get the most out of it all.

Why?

It's Mostly Free

Sure, Canva has its own pro features But it's mostly free. In its free version, you can get almost everything you need to create your own graphic designs and videos. Its free version has stock photos, stock videos, many templates and even graphics and audios for making slideshows or other videos.

Easy To Use

Canva is the easiest tool you can use to make professional graphics for your social media and it's not just limited to the photos, you can create presentations, videos, trailers, infographics, posters, banners, worksheets and even a website. It comes with many templates and you can choose from a wide variety of templates for different kinds of graphics and that, too, for free. Of course, the pro version comes with even more templates but the free version should suffice, I guess. If you want your content to be unique and rare then you can opt for the pro version of Canva since free templates are overly used by many people. The templates make it so easy to just personalise the graphics according to your brand or needs and you are ready to go. No prior designing skills are required.

Keeps Your Progress and Projects Saved

Canva saves progress and the drafts of all your designs. Even if you have just chosen a template to work on, it will save it for future editing. If you abruptly close your ongoing project while still connected to the internet, you will find your drafts waiting for you to continue editing under 'Your Designs' in Canva. Your every step of editing keeps getting saved on Canva and there is little to no risk of losing your unfinished projects.

Stock Media

Canva provides stock images, videos, elements, fonts and even audio. You need not browse all over the internet for copyright-free images, videos, elements or audios, especially when you have little time for designing, because all these are available within the app itself. Sure, you can browse other stock media websites but inbuilt copyright-free graphics just save a lot of time. Also, elements are harder to browse and hence, it's a huge plus point on Canva.

Free Templates

There are tons of free templates on Canva under each category of design. You just need to add your own touch and text to them and you are ready to go. Templates make editing and designing a lot easier and it also saves you from facing the intimidation of blank canvas staring right in your face. Canva claims to have over 50,000 free templates.

How?

Creating an account on Canva is the first step in the process of creating your own designs. To create an account, all you need to do is enter your email address and confirm it by clicking the link they send you. Once you've confirmed your account, it will take you directly to Canva. Once you've created your account on Canva, you can start using the basic features of the software. To add a new design, click Create at the top of your screen. You'll then be led to a search bar where you can type in a topic for which you'd like to create a design. When you've selected one, Canva will give you two options: use an existing template or start from scratch. Selecting start from scratch will take you to the next part of this post. You want to create a professional design, but don't have the time or money to hire a graphic designer. With Canva, you can create professional designs for free. Plus, you don't need any design experience to use Canva. Their simple and intuitive interface makes designing easy.

Canva for Education

Canva for Education empowers everyone to create, collaborate, and communicate in the classroom and beyond. With one platform, you and your students can create and personalize interactive docs, presentations, videos, whiteboards, websites and more. Choose from thousands of ready-made educational templates or start from scratch. And the best part? Canva for Education is 100% free for K to 12 teachers, students, and their entire school system. In this video we’ll show you the basics of Canva homepage and how to navigate it, plus some tips on how to build your Canva skills, stay organized and find help when you need it.

Creating Interactive Lesson Plans

Bel will show us how to use Canva to create Interactive Lesson Plans.

How to Create VIDEOS with Canva

Hadas will show us how to create videos with Canva that will catch your audience's attention! She will be talking about different ways to add animations to your designs and how to edit basic videos with Canva.

Storytelling with Canva

Bel will show us how to use Canva for Storytelling that will catch your audience's attention!

Student Activities and Assignments

This video will show us how to use Canva for Create student activities and assignments.

Creating a Talking Presentation

This video will show us how to use Canva to create a Talking Presentation.

Creating a Class Brainstorms

This video will show us how to use Canva to create a Class Brainstorms.

To Learn More

Canva Learn: Achieve your design goals with Canva's in-depth articles and resources.

Canva Education: Inspiring teachers and engaging students

Teach with Canva: Create, communicate and engage your students with Canva

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