Canva Tutorial

Canva is a great, free tool for creating digital graphics. I mainly use it for creating invitations to events and cutesy artifacts for teaching like slides and assignment formats. Here is a tutorial: 

1) Open up Canva. You may need to make an account before continuing to "Home." Fun fact-- you get Canva pro free if you are an educator YAY! Use your school email :)

Here you can see what projects you have been working on as well as browse new templates. Let's look through templates - my favorite.

2) As you can see, there are lots of different templates you can use for a variety of purposes. Since most of us are in education, let's look at the education presentations folder.

3) Click customize this template to edit it. You can also star it for later.

4)  Education presentation that you can edit and modify to your liking. You can change the words, colors, sizing, graphics, and bring in even new items from your own computer files or the website's.

5) You can share your work with others to work on at the same time, just like Google Docs. This is really helpful. In this corner you can also save the project in any format you'd like. Your progress automatically saves to your account, again like Google Docs.

Overall, Canva is an accessible and collaborative resource that you can use for a multitude of reasons. This overview was very general in the usage of Canva, but you can get into the nitty gritty with other mediums here, like video editing! The world is your oyster