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Tech Tip Tuesday: Canva

11/09/2021

Tech TipTuesday: Canva11/09/2021

What is Canva for Education?

Canva for Education is a powerful design tool, allowing you and your students to create visually stunning designs for any subject or age level. You and your students can create your own designs from scratch, or choose from the library of over 60,000 high quality, educational templates.

Unleash creativity with Pro features, FREE for educators

Create lessons, learning materials and activities in minutes with the easy to use platform. Canva for Education includes:


  • Millions of premium images


  • Premium fonts, graphics, videos and animations


  • Remove the background from an image in a click


  • Upload school logos and fonts


  • Add Bitmoji and gifs to personalize your work


  • Edit PDFs for FREE

Create a class & invite students | Teach with Canva | Canva

Editing PDFs for FREE in Canva for Education

How To Edit PDF Files in Canva Free - Easy Drag and Drop

Save time with ready-to-use templates

Access thousands of high-quality, educational templates for every subject, grade, and ability. From Science and Math, to English, Social Studies and more - Canva is for everyone.

Discover worksheets, lesson plans, presentations, posters, reports, and more, all ready to customize.

Find learning templates | Teach with Canva | Canva

Easy to use format for creating voice and video over your lesson!

Teach lessons with Canva | Teach with Canva | Canva

Connecting Canva for Education to your Canvas Course Page Connecting Canva for Education to your Canvas Course Page

Connect Canva to LMS

To do that, the first step is to enable LMS integration in your Canva account first:


  1. Sign in to your Canva for Education account, or sign up here.
  2. Once logged in, from the top corner of the homepage, click the ⚙ gear icon to go to your Account Settings.
  3. From the side menu below your class name, click Billing & Teams.
  4. Under LMS Integrations, toggle the slider next to Enable LTI Integration. It should turn purple.
  5. Copy your consumer key and your shared secret from this page. You will need them in setting up Canva in your LMS.

Enable the Canva for Education tab on Canvas

Sign in to your Canvas account.



  1. Go to the page of the course where you want to add Canva to.
  2. From the sidebar, click Settings, and select the Apps tab.
  3. Look for Canva for Education, and click Add App.
  4. Copy and paste your Consumer key and Shared secret on the form from when you enabled LMS integration in your account.
  5. Click Add App to finish.

Easy to Integrate Google Classroom with Canva

Sam Kary has a video and website that explains ALLLL the ways you can integrate Google Classroom with Canva. There are so many things you can do that this video walks through all the ways you can use Canva with Google Classroom so it's a longer video, but just know that you can Create assignments and link them directly to Google Classroom using the direct links or you can import and sync your Google Classroom classes into the Canva platform.
How to Use Canva Education with Google Classroom

How to Use Canva Education with Google Classroom

Last year Canva released an exciting update, an education-specific wing of their creativity platform called Canva Education, which also integrates with Google Classroom.Canva Education isn't just 100% free for teachers and students, it's also replete with thousands of education-specific templates for you to take and use in your classroom.

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