canva is a popular program for creating
professional grade graphic designs and
other creativity projects
but to make the most out of it you used
to need the pro version
luckily last year canva released canva
for education
which is completely free for educators
and students
includes thousands of pre-created
education templates
allows you to create individual and
collaborative assignments
and syncs with learning management
systems i have to admit i haven't been
this excited about an edtech platform in
a while
and in this video i'm excited to show
you what it's all about
my name is sam carey and this is my
youtube channel for the new edtech
classroom
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before showing you how to access your
free canva for education account let's
look at some of the different templates
that are available in canva
so you can get a sense of how resource
rich it is
first canva has loads of digital
worksheets that you can assign to
students
as with all the templates you'll find on
canva the content varies across
grades and subject areas for example
there are science worksheets art
analysis worksheets
writing brainstorms drag and drop
worksheets and much more
canva also has online whiteboard
templates and students can collaborate
together on these templates without ever
leaving the canva interface
there are also group project templates
such as this one to support a small
group with creating a graphic design
project or animated presentation
templates for projects
such as this one about cloud formations
you might want to assign an infographic
template for students to show what
they've learned using a graphic design
or have students use one of the video
templates to create
an about me project and i'll be showing
all these templates and how to use them
in this video
in addition to templates for student
work there's also a ton of material for
teacher created content
for example with a canva for education
account you'll have access to free
templates you could use as an
alternative to google slides or
powerpoints
as well as pre-created bitmoji scenes
banners for your learning management
system
and even lesson planning templates all
these templates are fully customizable
and you could always just build your own
entirely from scratch if you prefer to
do it that way
the templates i just showed still only
scratch the surface of what's available
in canva for free with an education
account
now that i've given you a brief overview
let's look quickly at how you can get a
free canva for education account you'll
want to go to canva.com
edu hyphen signup and then click on the
get verified button
where you'll be asked to enter your name
and email as well as the name of your
organization
if you already have a canva account log
into that account
first and then go to canva for education
and your account will be upgraded after
you get verified
that way you'll keep all of your
existing designs and they'll be there
ready for you to use in your new
education account
regardless of the learning management
system you use the first thing you'll
want to do is create a class in canva so
that you can send students assignments
you'll see here that i already have one
team or class created
and to create another one go up to the
settings cog click on
billings and teams and click create a
new class
to toggle back and forth between the
classes you create click on your icon
scroll down to switch team and choose
a different class you might want to do
this if you teach different courses or
different grade levels to keep your
classes totally separate from one
another
if you're obsessive about keeping
everything neat and tidy like i am
now to set up your class click on the
class name at the bottom left hand side
of the screen
on the designs tab you can customize
your banner by changing the class name
and since canva is a graphics design
program you can of course also design
your own banner within canva if you'd
like
to add students to your class you'll
want to go over to the people tab
here you'll see that you currently have
the option to import your class roster
from google classroom
or to manually enter your students
information
note that other lms integrations will be
coming
soon
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once you sync your roster or manually
add student names
it's important to note that students
won't actually be signed up for a canva
account
until you send them an invitation which
they will need to accept
because of this it might be a good idea
to send those invitations in class and
have students accept them
in class before launching into creating
canva assignments
you might want to check out the learn
tab where you can find
tutorials specific to canva for
education as well as tutorials about how
to design in canva that could be helpful
to show students
now let's look at how to do some basic
editing of a canva template and then
look at how to assign that template to
students i'll start by showing you a
worksheet template such as this
getting to know a character one first
notice that the entire worksheet is
fully editable
if you click on a text box you'll see an
edit tab
show up above where you can customize
different elements of the text
such as the font and color and you can
also
edit the copy as needed by clicking on
the template
you can change the document color too if
you'd like to replace the shapes or
symbols with different ones
you can click on any element to delete
it and then
choose a different one from the elements
tab on the left hand side of the screen
i'd also recommend that you lock certain
elements on the worksheet
so that students can't easily delete
them on accident
or move them around you can do that by
clicking on any part of the template
such as this text box and then clicking
the lock icon once you've finished
customizing your template
go up to the three dot menu on the top
right hand side of the screen
and there you'll see the two main ways
to turn this template into separate
worksheets for
individual students directly through
canva
or through your learning management
system
if you use google classroom click on the
icon and then choose the class to which
you want to send
the assignment and then choose create
assignment
click go and that will open up the
assignment portal where you can give
your assignment a name
instructions and a due date as well as
assign it to a topic
then when a student goes to google
classroom to open up the assignment and
clicks on the link
they'll be prompted to use the template
that you assigned
another option would be to assign this
template directly through
canva by clicking assignment you'll be
prompted to write an assignment
description
then just make sure you've chosen the
correct class
and then click publish now when students
log into canva
they'll see the template show up under
their course dashboard
after student completes an activity they
just need to click send to teacher to
submit it
there they can leave you a message and
when they are ready to turn their
assignment in
click send back on the teacher side you
can see submitted work by clicking on
the classwork tab
there you'll be able to see the work
that students turned in as well as give
them feedback
and then when a student returns to canva
they can also click on the classwork tab
to be able to see
all of their returned work as well as
read the feedback you gave them
we just looked at how to assign canva
templates to individual students
but you can also assign templates for
your entire class to work on at once
or assign templates to small groups of
students
just like all of the other templates any
template you choose for group work is
also
fully editable so you can customize it
to fit the needs of a particular
assignment
as i mentioned there are two main ways
to assign group work in canva
one is to have all the students in your
class join the document at the same time
and another is to send separate copies
of assignments to small groups
first let's look at how to assign a
single template for your entire class to
work on
all together if you want all students to
collaborate
on a single editable document you'll
need to share it differently than the
way i showed with a template
instead of going up to the three dots
click on the purple share button and
then click
copy link next if you're using google
classroom
go to google classroom and open the
assignment editor
give your assignment a name and
description and then click on the link
icon and paste the link to the editable
canva assignment that you just copied
another option would be to simply paste
the link for the assignment wherever you
want students to access it
be that through a zoom or google me chat
or on a slide or powerpoint
or in a different learning management
system then when students click on the
link they'll be taken
directly to the editable page where they
can begin working on their activity
and all contribute together you can see
here for example now that numerous
students are in
that they're all able to drag elements
around and contribute to the board
at the same time if rather than
assigning a template to your entire
class
you wanted to assign separate templates
to small groups you can do that too
to create separate templates for
separate groups you'll want to start by
creating a copy of the template by going
up to file
make a copy then repeat the process of
copying and pasting the shareable link
this time however you'll only want to
share the link with the specific members
of a group
you can do this through the chat if
you're teaching on zoom or google meet
or you can share the links with only a
select group of students in your
learning management system
for example in google classroom when in
the assignment editor
you'll just want to select the names of
the students in that group from the drop
down menu
and then paste the link in now when
students open up the link for their
specific group template
they'll only see the template that was
assigned to their group and each group
member will be able to work
on that individual template together now
that we've learned how to create
worksheet templates and assign them to
individual students
as well as learn how to assign online
whiteboards or group work templates to
your entire class or to small groups
let's look at some ways you can use
canva for creativity projects
like graphic designs and video
presentations
is primarily known for being a graphic
design program and there are many
different graphic design templates to
help kickstart ideas for how you can use
graphic design
with your students luckily you don't
personally need to be a graphic design
expert to do graphic design projects
with students
in fact it might be best to let the
experts do the talking
remember that you can go to the learn
tab to find tutorials about how to
design in canva
here click on graphic design basics and
you'll see tutorials about the
importance of proximity in graphic
design
alignment fonts using opposites the
color wheel
and much more one way you could use
graphic design would be to have students
research a famous person
and then make a poster with that
person's image and have them include
text indicating that person's key
accomplishments
students could also make persuasive
posters about a topic they are studying
such as this one about animal testing
or this one about uniting against
bullying
when teaching students how to make
graphic design projects it would be most
important to teach them how to customize
the text by clicking on a text box
and filling in their information
changing the font type by clicking on
the drop down menu
as well as changing the font color
you'll also want to show students how to
change the image background by clicking
on photos
searching for an image they want
clicking on the image to add it
and then right clicking and selecting
replace background
you could also have students make
infographics to show the process
of photosynthesis to show the life cycle
of a butterfly
or to show the different states of
matter
when showing students how to design
infographics you'll definitely want to
show them how to use
elements which allow students to add a
wide
range of icons to their graphic designs
for example students can use stickers to
add decorative designs such as this
leaf or shapes such as this arrow
amongst many other options in addition
to static elements
students can also add animated stickers
to add some flair to their designs
for example there's this exploding
firework sticker or this clapping hand
sticker
and you can see that there are many
additional stickers for students to
choose from
although you might be more familiar with
using canva for graphic design
it's also an awesome program for doing
short video projects with students
for example you could use one of these
templates to have students make an about
me video
video projects in canva are composed of
different slides
that can be animated to give it a video
effect
as with the graphic design templates the
text on a slide is fully editable
so students can replace the preset name
with their own
then you could have students go to
uploads to upload
video or image files that they can use
in their videos
to replace the current media they just
need to drag and drop their image
or video in in addition to images
students can also add video clips by
searching
for what they're looking for on the
videos tab and then
also just dragging and dropping a video
in after students finish
editing all the information on the
remaining slides
they can click play at the top to
preview the video
notice how the slides elements appear as
animations to give it a video like
effect and how the actual video on the
second slide
plays automatically to change the way
the slides
animate click on the animations icon to
access the menu
there you can preview what different
options will look like and then hit play
again to see them in action
lastly to make these videos even more
engaging they can also find
audio clips to play in the background on
the audio tab
click to preview the audio and then
double click on it
to add audio to the video then
click the play button again to preview
what the tracks will sound like
as a video background
canva clearly has loads of templates for
students to show what they've learned
creatively
and in addition to student projects
canva also has a wide array of templates
for teachers
from bitmoji scenes to zoom backgrounds
and learning management system
decorations
for example you can customize any of
these pre-created presentations
as a way to mix up the way you present
material to students
the presentations are very similar to
google slides or powerpoint
presentations
but the templates already include
education-specific content that you can
easily fill in
with your own information bitmoji scenes
are also easy to create in canva
just search for bitmoji and you'll see
numerous pre-created bitmoji scenes
show up as well as a mostly blank one if
you want to fully customize it on your
own
you can even connect your bitmoji
directly to canva by clicking on more
selecting bitmoji and then going through
the process of connecting your account
note that this does require you to have
a snapchat account
which you can set up for free once
you've synced your account you'll see
your bitmojis show up directly in canva
to bring one in just click and drag it
and resize it as necessary
if you don't have a snapchat account you
can also just upload a bitmoji directly
from your computer
as i mentioned canva also has these
editable zoom backgrounds
and these class dojo templates that you
can use too
lastly let's take a look at some of the
templates you can use to decorate your
learning management system
whether that's microsoft teams schoology
canvas or google classroom
for example if you type in google
classroom banner
you'll see that several pre-created
banner templates show up
and of course you can also create your
own from scratch
just like all the other templates this
template is fully editable
so here i'll change the font i'll delete
some of these elements
then go over to the elements on the left
hand side of the screen
to add some different ones and lastly
i'll also bring in
my bitmoji then all i need to do is
download the banner
and then go back to google classroom
once there
i'll just click on the class i created
the banner for
and select upload photo then i'll choose
the image from my computer and be sure
to drag the crop tool to cover the
entire image
and then click select class theme canva
for education clearly has a huge archive
of templates that would be useful for
any grade level
in any subject area and best of all it's
completely free for educators
so there's really no reason not to check
it out if you have any questions about
how to use canva
be sure to ask those in the comments
below
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