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Visual Design Essentials with Canva

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This hands-on Canva course is designed for beginners looking to create stunning visuals without any prior design experience. Over two engaging days, learners will explore Canva’s powerful features—customizable templates, drag-and-drop elements, animations, layering, and collaboration tools. Ideal for students, small business owners, content creators, and professionals, this course empowers users to design social media posts, flyers, resumes, and more with confidence and creativity.

Intended audience

Canva, Visual Design, Typography, Layout Design, Layering, Animation, Poster Creation, Template Customization

Prerequisites

Open to All

Assessment & certification

Assessment fee: Included — no extra fee
Assessment mode: Online proctored
Assessment type: MCQ
Certificate provider: Canva, Visual Design, Typography, Layout Design, Layering, Animation, Poster Creation, Template Customization

Syllabus

Week 1: Module 1: Introduction to Canva and Mastering the Basics
Week 2: Introduction to Canva
Week 3: What is Canva and its uses
Week 4: Navigating Canva’s interface
Week 5: Getting Started with Templates
Week 6: Choosing and customizing templates
Week 7: Practice activity: Birthday Invitation design
Week 8: Adding Elements and Photos
Week 9: Using icons, shapes, and photos
Week 10: Personalization with filters and effects
Week 11: Activity: Thank You Card with photo
Week 12: Simple Design Project
Week 13: Instagram post or motivational poster
Week 14: Module 2: Advanced Features and Creative Projects
Week 15: Design Principles
Week 16: Alignment, color, font usage
Week 17: Activity: Redesign a flyer
Week 18: Backgrounds and Layers
Week 19: Custom backgrounds, layering objects
Week 20: Activity: Sale poster design
Week 21: Text Effects and Animation
Week 22: Shadow, curve, outline effects
Week 23: Basic animation & export as video
Week 24: Collaboration & Exporting
Week 25: Sharing designs, choosing file formats
Week 26: Final Project
Week 27: Choose: Resume, Event Flyer, or Business Social Media Post

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