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Canva for Education

What is Canva for Education?

Canva is a dynamic online platform for visual communication, design, and publishing. Canva for Education empowers you to craft captivating lessons and student activities, both in-person and online. Explore an array of templates tailored for various subjects, grades, and topics, and take full advantage of Canva's premium features.

Canva foundations

Canva Foundations

Master Canva Basics! Start here to navigate, create, and design like a pro with our foundational video series.
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Canva Brand Kit set up

Canva Brand Kit set up 

Setting up the branding toolkit for your school's Canva team is a great way to manage your school's visual identity efficiently, helping to ensure that all content aligns with your chosen branding guidelines. 

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Canva offers:

  • a vast selection of educational templates ready for use in any subject, grade, or topic
  • tools to create lessons and activities with images, fonts, videos, animations, and editing capabilities
  • the ability to connect with and inspire students no matter their location, with options to share, review, and provide real-time feedback on their work
  • seamless integration with essential classroom tools like Google Classroom and Microsoft Teams.

Single sign-on for teachers

Watch how to access Canva for Education with a single click.
 

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Single sign-on for students

Share this video with students to show them how they can access Canva for Education with a single click via their student portal.

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Canva for Education FAQs

Canva for Education includes all the features of Canva Pro such as millions of premium images, fonts, graphics, videos, and animations, plus photo background remover and more. 

It also includes a host of education features such as thousands of education-focused templates, a simple workflow for teachers to manage student work, and integrations with Google Classroom and Microsoft Teams.

You can only link your Google Drive to one Canva account. If you have already linked your DoE Google Drive to another account you will need to unlink it or close that account to enable Google Drive connection. (Note this does not apply to Google Classroom.)

For information on how you can use and share Canva content take a peek at their license agreements information.

Canva for Education has all the features of Canva Pro and more, but remember Canva for Education can only be used for Education purposes! If you had a Canva Pro Account before the switch to SSO you will still be able to toggle to this account with SSO, simply click on the Team switcher in the top right of your screen! If you choose to end your Pro subscription your designs will remain, but will be watermarked. Sharing or opening these within your new Education team will return all functionality for you!

You will need to remove the student from your class and you can do this by

  1. Select the ⚙ Account settings gear at the top right of the home page
  2. Select classes from the menu on the left
  3. Select the class from which you wish to remove the student
  4. Select the three dots next to their name and select ‘Remove from class’*

*Please note students will still be part the school's Canva team.

You will still be able to access your Canva classes when you move schools, but it is best practice to assign another teacher as an administrator and then remove yourself from the class.

  1. Select the ⚙ Account settings gear at the top right of the home page
  2. Click the People tab, then invite the new teacher using their @det.nsw.edu.au email account to the Canva team or class
  3. Note: An invitation will be sent to their department email account
  4. Request they open their departmental email (@det.nsw.edu.au) and accept the invitation (it may have gone into your junk folder)
  5. Repeat the above process for all Canva teams or classes you have
  6. Then to make the teacher an administrator of the class, follow the steps below
    1. Select the ⚙ Account settings gear at the top right of the home page
    2. Click the People tab
    3. Locate the  new teachers @det.nsw.edu.au user in the list of members and change it from being a member to an administrator using the drop down menu next to the username

Compare the different features available in the student account and the teacher account with this handy guide.