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Learn the complete Canva ecosystem through this comprehensive 8-course specialization that transforms beginners into proficient digital content creators. From fundamental design principles to advanced applications like interactive mind maps and web pages, you'll build expertise across social media visuals, promotional videos, presentations, and storyboards. This hands-on program bridges creative design with strategic marketing, equipping you with practical skills to create professional content for any business need while maintaining brand consistency and maximizing engagement across all digital platforms.
Syllabus
- Course 1: Craft Canva Tiles
- Course 2: Design Engaging Social Media Visuals Fast
- Course 3: Create Viral Content: Track & Revise
- Course 4: Get Started with Canva
- Course 5: Use Canva to Create Social Media Visuals for Business
- Course 6: Use Canva to Create Social Media Marketing Designs
- Course 7: How to create presentations using Canva
- Course 8: Create a Promotional Video using Canva
- Course 9: Use Canva to Create Desktop and Mobile-friendly Web Pages.
- Course 10: Use Canva to Create an Interactive Mind Map
- Course 11: Create a Storyboard in Canva
Courses
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By the end of this project, you will create a sample social media graphic for business. The graphic is shareable across your business’ social media platforms. You will be able to incorporate the color palette from your business style guide, in order to create brand recognition as part of your social media marketing strategy. This course will include an introduction to Canva, how to determine your canvas size for a social media post, incorporate images specific to your business into a social media post, and prepare a post for your social media channels. Note: This course works best for learners who are based in the North America region. We’re currently working on providing the same experience in other regions.
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By the end of this project, you will create an interactive mind map that is shareable across teams, business organizations, or with an audience, you want to market to. You will be able to incorporate a color scheme, images, and other design elements that will draw your audience in. This course will include an introduction to mind maps in Canva, a use for Canva that isn’t a widely known use, but is very useful when building ideas and strategies and effectively communicating them. You will also learn how to add interactive features to your mind map in order to create a useful tool for all. Note: This course works best for learners who are based in the North America region. We’re currently working on providing the same experience in other regions.
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By the end of this project, you will be able to create a ready to publish Desktop friendly and Mobile-friendly webpages with the help of the Canva graphic design tool. These simple webpages can be independently published with help of Canva URL or URL shorteners. This course will include introduction to Canva, how to design Desktop and Mobile friendly webpages and linking these pages to Socail media channels and prepare these simple webpages for publishing or can be shared with the help of Canva URLs or URL shorteners. Note: This course works best for learners who are based in the North America region. We’re currently working on providing the same experience in other regions.
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By the end of this project, you will create six social media visuals(Facebook Cover, Facebook Post, YouTube Thumbnail, YouTube Channel Art, Instagram Post and Twitter Header) for your business. These visuals are shareable across other social media channels. This course will include an introduction to Canva, how to create social media visuals from scratch by keeping one business theme in mind and prepare them for publishing. Note: This course works best for learners who are based in the North America region. We’re currently working on providing the same experience in other regions.
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In this 1-hour long project-based course, you will learn how to create a script and then create a Promotional Video around it and make the video appealing using video backgrounds, images and animations. By the end of this project, you will be confident in creating an eye-catching and professional Promotional Video in Canva which you can use to Market on Social Media Platforms. The same skills can be used in creating Promotional Video in any industry like real estate, finance, healthcare or for any other business. We will be using Canva for this purpose and we will create a Promotional Video slide by slide. We will begin by creating video slides around the Customer’s pain points and introduce our Solutions. We will then persuade our target customers through USPs and Testimonials and finish the video with a Call to Action. No prior experience in video creation or graphic design or scriptwriting is needed. Note: This course works best for learners who are based in the North America region. We’re currently working on providing the same experience in other regions.
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In this 1 hour long project-based course, you will learn to use Canva which is an online graphic tool that is used to create designs for various categories. This course includes Canva introduction, exploration of Canva Dashboard, and then you will learn to create animated videos using the Canva platform. So we are going to create an animated COVID19 prevention video on Canva from the scratch. By the end of this project, you will be able to create amazing animated videos from the scratch using the Canva Platform and you will also learn how you can use different sections like text, images, elements, videos, and audio present on the Canva's dashboard to create your designs. Note: This course works best for learners who are based in the North America region. We’re currently working on providing the same experience in other regions.
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By the end of this project, you will learn how to create a Storyboard from scratch using the free version of Canva. A storyboard is a graphic organizer that consists of illustrations or images displayed in sequence for the purpose of pre-visualising a motion picture, animation, motion graphic or interactive media sequence. You will be able to incorporate a color scheme, images, and other design elements for aesthetically pleasing and value added business marketing collateral. We can use Canva to complete this project because it provides all the tools you need to create an organized and visually appealing product while offering a variety of options for sharing and collaboration. You will learn how to plan and organize your ideas and utilize graphic design tools as you create a Storyboard template for your next visual experience. Note: This course works best for learners who are based in the North America region. We’re currently working on providing the same experience in other regions.
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In this project you will learn how to make presentations using Canva. Canva is a free web design service where you have a wide variety of tools to design all kinds of media you need. Canva is a great option for those looking for an easy-to-use platform to create presentations for corporate, school, and college classes. Canva has many elements that are free and gives you a lot of freedom when it comes to designing. Canva is an extremely useful tool for those who are just starting out and even becomes a very good tool for those who have been designing in more advanced programs for years. It is a quick option that does not need to be installed on your computer and as long as you have an internet connection, it will be an accessible tool. Additionally, it offers a number of templates that facilitate the creative process and a presentation platform where you can use any medium, from images to videos.
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Stop the scroll and capture your audience’s attention. Craft Canva Tiles is an intermediate course for marketers and creators who want to produce engaging, on-brand social media content that gets results. You will move beyond theory and learn the essential, hands-on skills needed to pair persuasive copy with eye-catching visuals, turning your ideas into ready-to-publish assets. This course shows you how to write copy with a clear call-to-action, a consistent brand voice, and genuine audience relevance, drawing inspiration from the unique messaging of brands like Oatly and the gentle guidance of Headspace. You will then translate those principles into visuals, learning to use Canva templates to create professional, branded graphics efficiently. We'll look at how Airbnb masters visual storytelling and how Canva itself has built a content empire. The course culminates in a hands-on project where you will design a branded Instagram tile and write the perfect caption, giving you a complete, practical workflow for creating content that is not only beautiful but effective.
Taught by
Abhishek Jha, Chaitra Deshpande, Hurix Digital, LearningMate, Michelle Flores, Monica I. Heredia Rodriguez, Priya Jha and Stacey Shanklin-Langford