Exciting news, educators! Canva has changed the way their educational plans work, and now it is super easy for any teacher to sign up for a FREE Canva account! An education account gets you access to all of the premium features, including my favorites, like premium elements and the life-saving “resize” option for your creations.
The education plan also provides opportunities to use Canva with students, allowing you to assign creations to students, accept them for feedback, and have students collaborate. Canva also integrates with Google Classroom, Microsoft Teams, Schoology, Canvas (the LMS closest to my heart), and more!
Canva for Education features:
- Thousands of templates
- Premium images, videos, and animations
- Premium fonts
- Ability to upload school logos & fonts
- Ability to add Bitmojis and GIFs
- Share assignments with students & have students turn them in (with or without an LMS)
- Group activities with real-time collaboration
- Roster students manually, or via a link, Clever, or Google Classroom
- COPPA & FERPA compliant
- 100% free
If you haven’t used Canva yet, it allows you to create professional-looking designs with pre-made templates and simple drag-and-drop editing. Create flyers, posters, presentations, handouts, certificates, logos, and so much more. To get ideas for having students use Canva to demonstrate their learning, check out my FREE PDF resource, “25 Ideas for Using Canva to Make Learning Visible”. Additionally, learn how to use Canva by visiting “Canva How-to for Teachers & Students” [Coming Soon!]. Here you will find student-friendly how-to videos, as well as videos that walk teachers through assigning Canva creations to students with or without an LMS. Don’t forget to grab your copy of the “Canva Cheat Sheet for Students” to help scaffold your students’ use of this great tool!
Related posts & resources:
- “25 Ideas for Using Canva to Make Learning Visible” (FREE PDF)
- “Canva Cheat Sheet for Students”
- [Coming Soon!] “Providing Student Choice when Demonstrating Mastery”