7 Ways Schools can Use the Canva Graphic Tools to a Benefit

Canva is a free web-based graphic design tool with millions of pre-built templates, photos and illustrations. It remains one of the best and easiest online graphic tools, with its easy drag and drop structure.

Graphic design is one of the digital content creations, which is a key component of digital literacy schools should be pursuing in this turn of the century.

Creating one’s contents, especially in the area of graphic design, has a lot of advantage:

ü Saving of cost: Schools can save the cost of hiring graphic designers for their graphic works, just by designing their own graphic.

ü Learn new skills: As part of digital content creation, when schools start designing their own graphics, it helps both teachers and students to develop a lifetime skill, without going for extra training.

ü Promote brands: Instead of going to ‘copy and paste’ contents from online spaces- contents that represent the brands of the original creators, schools can personalize their brands when they design their logo themselves.

ü Engage a class in a thrilling way: The power of graphics over texts ensures that when teachers and students have mastered graphic design, classroom engagement becomes more thrilling and interactive.

ü Self-publish: With some pre-built Canva templates like E-book cover and a combination of others, schools can easily publish and sell e-books without going through a third-party.

ü Market advantage: It’s very easy to beat your competitors for the market when you create a personalized brand of graphic.

ü The list is endless.

Below are 7 major areas schools can employ the Canva graphic tool to an advantage:

1.    Create e-certificate

With Canva, schools can design their own e-certificate, which can as well be printed out as a hard copy. With the certificate, classroom awards, general school certificate for staff and students etc can easily be designed by both staff and students, with a personalized touch, thereby saving cost.

2.    Ebook covers

Schools have always been advised to create additional wealth by producing their own e-book. But one challenge stands out: how to create e-book without going through the hassles of a third-party.

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3.    Class presentation

Canva has one of the best presentation tools with thousands of pre-built template to meet your preference. Teachers need to make use of these powerful presentations in the classroom deliveries to engage the students appropriately for maximum result.

4.    School logo

For branding purposes, every organization should create a personalized logo for their business outfit. Less is not expected of schools.

There is no need spending money hiring a graphic designer to design a school logo for your school, or going to the ridiculous extent of plagiarizing others’ contents. You can design a logo that is personalized to your brand using the Canva graphic design tools.

5.    Social media posts

Canva offers a lot of social media templates- headers for Social media platforms as well as social media postings. Hence, as a school, you’ve got an appropriate graphic for every social media postings in your school social media engagement.

6.    Infographic

The power of infographic in information presentation cannot be over-emphasized. But do you know that with Canva, your teachers and students can easily create infographics with high marketing effects.

      

7.    Website banner embedding

For schools running a blog, embedding a hyperlink to an affiliate site or to a very special site is always something desirable. And the best way to do this is through banner links. Over these years, creating an affiliate banner has been an exclusive right of tech gurus. But I tell you, with Canva, you can save cost and do it yourself.

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