Canva Essentials Courses
Master the basics of Canva to create stunning designs effortlessly
The Canva Essentials Course is designed for beginners, offering an introduction to Canva's core features. Learn how to navigate the interface, customise the editor, and manage files effectively. You’ll work on practical projects such as flyers, Facebook posts, and branded Instagram content. The course focuses on utilising and customising templates, applying text styling, and basic image editing. You’ll also learn how to share projects, design for print, and personalise documents, making this the perfect course to start your Canva journey.
Canva Essentials Courses
Learn Canva basics in one day. Create flyers, social posts, and branded content while mastering templates, text styling, and image editing.
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We currently have no public courses scheduled. Please contact us to register your interest.
We currently have no public courses scheduled. Please contact us to register your interest.
We currently have no public courses scheduled. Please contact us to register your interest.
We currently have no public courses scheduled. Please contact us to register your interest.
We currently have no public courses scheduled. Please contact us to register your interest.
Canva Essentials Course Details
Canva Essentials Course Details
Canva Essentials Course Details
Canva Essentials Course Details
Canva Essentials Course Details
Canva Essentials Course Details
Canva Essentials Course Details
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No prior knowledge is required for this course.
Canva Essentials Learning Outcomes
By the end of the Canva Essentials course, students will confidently navigate Canva’s tools and features. They will be able to create and customise a range of design projects, including flyers and social media posts, and will be proficient in using templates, applying text styling, and editing images to produce professional-quality designs.
Canva Essentials Course Content
- Introduction to Canva
- What is Canva?
- Online or download
- Navigating and searching the interface
- Customising the editor
- Managing files and folders
- Efficient workflow and good organisation
- Quickstart
- Project 1 - Making a flyer
- Using and modifying Canva templates
- Fonts and text styling
- Colours and shapes
- Alignment, position, size, transparency
- Using the Elements panel
- Switching graphics
- Understanding print settings
- Download your design ready for print
- Editing Photos
- Project 2 - Facebook post
- Using the Canva preset documents
- Standard sizes and aspect ratios for social media
- Uploading your own photographs
- Cropping, positioning, rotating
- Editing brightness, contrast and colour
- Applying effects to photographs
- Adding animated stickers
- Correct file formats to use for image posts
- Share directly to Facebook and/or download final artwork
- Canva Brand Kit
- Project 3 - Branded Instagram post
- Design fundamentals - how to capture attention
- Devise a brand style & set up a Canva Brand Kit
- Uploading brand elements
- Implementing your brand style in a project
- Using your logo, fonts, styles and colours
- Using and tweaking brand illustrations and photos
- Layout and design for effective communication
- Choosing the right file format
- Post straight to Instagram and/or download
- Customising
- Project 4 - Header banner for email newsletters
- Making Canva documents from scratch
- Custom document sizes
- Some recommended sizes for email marketing EDMs
- Layers, guides, margins
- Arranging elements front to back
- Setting an image as the background
- Download correct image file types for EDMs
- Connecting a MailChimp account
- Image optimisation ready for email marketing
- Design for Print
- Project 5 - Business Card
- Business card standard sizes
- Modifying a template
- Applying choices from Layouts and Styles
- Pages for card front and back
- Margins, text safe areas and bleed settings
- Readable text sizes and colours
- Download high quality PDF ready for print
- Product Design Mockups
- Project 6 - T-shirt
- Product design presets
- Download and upload technique
- Smart Mockups
- Using Apps within Effects
- Making variations
- Download selected items only
- The role of the mockup
- Introduction to Video & Animation
- Project 7 - Instagram Story
- Social media video requirements
- Effective, efficient video content
- Video size, aspect ratio & duration
- Finding & using Canva stock video
- Sequencing video clips
- Overlay text on video
- Text animation
- Download MP4 video and/or post directly to Instagram
- Add transitions between video segments
- Upload audio
- Add audio track to video
- Fade audio in & out
- Animate Graphic element (the logo)
- Image Effects
- Editing and applying effects to different kinds of images
- Adjusting white balance, light, colour and texture settings
- Applying effects to images with transparent backgrounds
- Making adjustments to photographs
- Editing vector graphics settings
- Applying filters to videos
- Basic Presentation
- An introduction to fast and easy presentations
- Timing and slide animation
- Applying brand styling to a presentation
- Setting transitions between slides
- Adding different kinds of content to slides (text, photos, vectors)
- Timing and autoplay
- Present on screen in Canva
- Download as PDF
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