Time-Saving Tech Tips for teachers using Canva

In this edition of Time Saving Tech Tips, we're exploring advanced Canva techniques to help you streamline your workflow and unlock its full potential in your classroom.

Template power: Your Starting Point

Explore the template library

Canva boasts an extensive collection of over 70k pre-designed templates for a variety of educational purposes, everything from worksheets and presentations to posters and infographics. 

Customise with ease

Templates provide a solid foundation, but you can also personalise them. Add your own content and adjust the colours and fonts to incorporate your school’s branding. 

Resize Designs with Magic Resize

Resize your creations

Do you need that same design in different sizes

for various uses? Canva's "Magic Resize" tool

allows you to easily adapt your creations for

different formats– from social media posts to

printed material– without needing to redesign

from the ground up.

NO TEMPLATE? 

Use Magic Design

Effortless creations

Add more than four words to the design search box and Magic Design will use your text as a prompt to create a new design. Whether you're presentations, posters, or social media posts, Magic Design can help you bring your ideas to life in just a few clicks.

Make it on-brand

Magic Design can use your Brand Kit, to produce the design to your custom brand. 

Design Accessibility: Create Inclusive Designs

With Canva's Design Accessibility tool, you don't need to be an accessibility expert. Easily identify and fix accessibility issues in your designs, like colour contrast typography, and alternative text, to create more inclusive content.

Transform Content with Magic Switch

Transform your Canva Docs into polished presentations with Magic Switch. The document becomes a detailed prompt for AI to build slides. Already have content in a PDF format, such as a syllabus? Upload it to Canva, convert it into a Canva Doc, and then transform it into a presentation.

Canva for Google Workspace

The Canva add-on boosts efficiency in your daily tasks by eliminating the need to switch between platforms.

Google Drive

See your Canva designs in Google Drive to preview and edit and rreate new Canva designs in a snap, right from Google Drive.

Google Calendar

Share designs with guests through the calendar invite, plus create new designs without ever leaving your calendar.

Gmail

Insert or attach Canva designs to your emails. Create new designs and control sharing access straight from your inbox.

Google Editors

Turn Canva links into smart chips to preview designs anywhere. Control your design’s sharing access from any doc, sheet, or slide.