Canva

Canva is a graphic-design tool website, and it uses a drag-and-drop feature and provides access to over a million photographs, graphics and fonts. Canva can be used either by designers or non-designers and either professional or non-professional. Editing in Canva can be done in web and after that users can print the media design and graphics. In Canva, users can design their own designation for presentation, poster documents and etc by using more thousands of beautiful layouts that have been provided. Users also can publish their designs anywhere to reach the audience.

Canva provided some free features for their users such as:

       · Graph.

Users can create beautiful and custom graphs specially to present their data. By using Canva, users can present the data as visually-stunning graph and can design their own professional-quality graphs without the need to hire a graphic designer. Users just need to type in their labels and values or copy and paste them to the Canva.

· Photo Editing.

Do you want to create awesome designs from scratch in as little as a few minutes? So, use Canva. Because provided all the needs and it will help to make your work easy by turn the ideas into stunning ideas. Just make a simply search for the best graphics, photos, and fonts and then use Canva’s drag and drop tool to create a design.

       · Print.

Canva allow users to print and delivered the stunning designs that created by them to their doorstep. Canva provided high quality print products that guaranteed to look as good on paper as they are on users’ screen or maybe even better. Then, with a click of a button, users’ design can be sent to print and delivered right to their doorstep.

What do you think about Canva? Is it good enough to be one of your learning tools? Did you know that Canva has lots of benefits in teaching and learning, but now I will just said 3 benefits of Canva in teaching and learning and the benefits are:

     1. Inspire creativity through intuitive graphic design. Canva provide teachers or lecturers and students with a simple new way to design. Its drag and drop functionality enable them to create presentations, posters, one-page documents, and social media posts.

   2. Teach meaningful communication through graphic design creation. “Canva provides teachers or lecturers and students with the tools they need to bring their stories to life.” (Richard Byrne)

     3. Innovate and collaborate with everyone in the class. Students can create designs to be shared with the entire class. They can provide view-only access or give classmates or their teacher or lecturer and opportunity to collaborate on the same design.

    So, are you interested to use Canva? But you don’t know how to use it? Okay, let me guide you to use Canva. Here the guidelines that will guide you.

              i.        Open your Google or Mozilla Firefox or any web, then search for “Canva”.

             ii.        Go to the Canva.

           iii.        Click “Sign Up” and register for an account.

            iv.        Return to Canva and login.

             v.        Choose any graphic to your interest

§  Click on Blog Graphic.

§  Choose a Canva layout among the images or click “upload” on the bottom left to edit any image you want.

§  Change colour, background or add icons, text, images, lines, shapes over the components on the left side.

§  Click “Share” on the top right to share you blog graphic either with others to view or edit your design or on social media OR click “Download” on the top right to download your design.

Therefore, hope my review and information are useful for you guys. Thank you! 😊