Did you know you can make a recording of your Canva desktop directly from Canva without having
to buy any expensive screen recording software? In this tutorial I'm going to show you exactly
how to do that. I'll also show you how to share some comments on your design with a colleague
and also how to add some handy presenter notes. Once completed I'll walk you through the various
options you have to share your recording. Hi and welcome to my Channel where you'll find
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Right so today I'd like to share a presentation I put together with one of my colleagues.
Rather than send her a bit of a wordy email I'm just going to make a quick recording
and share my thoughts with her. So from my recent designs I'm going to click on the
presentation I created. This is actually one of Canva's own presentation templates
which I'm just going to use for the sake of this tutorial. Before I start my recording
I just want to ask my colleague a couple of questions. I'm sure you're already
aware of this but you can add comments to any graphic by selecting the graphic,
clicking on this little comment bubble here and adding your comments in this text box
Now all you need to do is click on the purple comment button. You can see my comment right
here. I'll go through that again in the next slide. Click on it once to select it,
I'm going to add my comment into the comment bubble. And you may already be aware of this but
this is a brand new feature, you can assign a task to a colleague within your team by tagging your
colleague in the message. And here's how you do it, "Hi Emma do you think this font works okay?"
Now I need to check this box here to assign this task to Emma, click on Comment.
Canva will then send Emma an email invitation asking them to view my design.
I just love that! Okay so I've finished adding my comments.
Now I know my colleague is really busy so I want to ensure I get straight to the point when I'm
recording my screen. To help me do that I'm going to go to the bottom of my Canva desktop and click
on this little section that says "Notes". I can add my notes here to help me stop waffling
Or it will help me remember what I need to say. These notes will appear on your screen when you
come to record it, so I'll show you what that looks like in just a few minutes. Okay I think
I'm done now so I'm going to start recording my screen. So I'm going to go right to the top
RH corner of my Canva desktop and click on these three little dots here which will bring up a menu.
I need to look out for the Present and Record icon which is right here and then click on it.
I'm then going to click on this "Go to Recording Studio".
You'll see that I'm prompted to set up my camera and microphone.
At the moment you can only use your Facetime camera, there's no other option.
But I can select my microphone by clicking on this downward arrow here to bring up a short menu.
And I'm going to select 'external microphone'. And now all I need to do is click on the purple button
to start my recording. You can see that my face appears in the bottom LH corner of the screen.
At the moment there's no choice to move that around. Hopefully at some point Canva might
consider changing this but at the moment you're stuck with the bottom LH corner. I've got a handy
timer button in the top LH corner of my screen to help me keep track of the time I've spent.
I don't need to worry if I get stuck at some point and can't remember what i'm going to say
because all I need to do is click on the Pause button. When I'm ready I can click on Resume to
pick up where I left off. To select a new page I can either use these side arrows right here
or I can click on the thumbnails underneath the presentation.
Going back one step you'll see that my handy little notes that I created earlier
appear on the RH side of my screen. These notes will not be viewable in your recording,
the only thing that will be recorded appears within this red frame right here.
The comments that I added for my colleague also don't appear within the recording. Okay so I've
finished my recording, now and I want to end it. So I'm just going to click on End Recording
Canva will then upload my recording which may take a few minutes depending on the duration of
your video. So make sure you keep this window open whilst it's uploading your recording
Hooray! My recording link is ready. Now I have various options: I can completely discard this
recording if I'm not happy with it by clicking on this red button here. You'll see within this box
here there is a link to the recording so to share the recording all I need to do is click on Copy
Link. And what I love about this is the person you're sharing the link with doesn't need to
have a Canva account. So you can share it with a client for example or a friend for some feedback.
Alternatively I can Save and Exit this recording or I can simply download the recording as an MP4
file. So at the minute I'm just going to save and exit it. And this will take me back onto
my Canva desktop. In the top RH corner you'll see that I still have the option
to copy a link to my recording, to download the recording or to delete it completely.
I think what I'm going to do is copy the link and share it with my colleague.
Do not worry at all if you accidentally close this window down, you have not lost
your recording. Even if you refresh this page and you click back into your recording
it will still be there. To access it all you need to do is click on the three
little dots again and click on Present and Record. And here it is. So now I think I'm
going to download this recording just to make sure I don't lose it. You can check
on the progress of your download in the bottom right hand corner of your screen
So that's all there is to presenting and recording in Canva. If you'd like to learn more about how to
create fantastic presentations in Canva please do check out my playlist. You'll find a tutorial
about how to create a presentation in Canva and then convert it to a PowerPoint presentation.
You'll also find a tutorial about how to add media such as video and music to a Canva presentation.
I'll leave the link to the playlist on my end screen which is coming up in just a few seconds.
Thank you so much for watching and I really look forward to seeing you in the next video.