Using CANVA For Your Online Course Business

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You’ve probably heard about Canva – but do you know how to use it to benefit your online education business?

I’m going to show you some ways to use Canva that will blow your mind AND gift you a free lead magnet template that you can edit and use as your own!

What is Canva?

Canva is a free graphic design platform that allows you to easily create your own graphics, gifs, videos and presentations for social media, your website, or your online course. It’s super easy to use with its drag and drop editor giving you the ability to be a graphic designer without actually being a graphic designer!

Canva Templates

Canva has more than 400,000 templates making it efficient for your or your team to create, with all the tools you need to maintain your brand.

• Presentations / slides templates
  • • including Talking Presentations and Mobile-First Presentations
• Social media templates
  • • Instagram Posts templates
    • Instagram Stories templates
    • Instagram Story Highlights templates
    • Instagram Reels templates
    • Instagram Ads templates
    • Facebook Posts templates
    • Facebook Covers templates
    • Facebook Ads templates
    • Facebook Event Covers templates
    • WhatsApp Status templates
    • TikTok Videos templates
    • Youtube Thumbnails templates
    • Youtube Intros templates
    • Youtube Channel Art templates
    • Twitter Posts templates
    • Pinterest Pins templates
    • Linkedin Banners templates
• Infographic templates
• Video templates
  • • Facebook Videos templates
    • Video Messages templates
    • Mobile Video templates
    • Youtube Videos templates
    • Youtube Video Ads templates
    • Video Collages templates
    • Linkedin Video Ads templates
    • Twitch Screens templates
    • Twitch Backgrounds templates
• Education templates
  • • Classroom Kit templates
    • Lesson plan templates
    • Worksheet templates
    • Bookmark templates
    • Certificate templates
    • Class Schedule templates
    • Graph templates
    • Mind Map templates
• Marketing templates
  • • Logo templates
    • Flyer templates
    • Business Card templates
    • Notebook templates
    • Blog Banner templates
    • Label templates
    • Gift Certificate templates
    • Email Header templates
    • Sticker templates
    • Ticket templates
    • Coupon templates
    • Email Newsletter templates
    • Book Cover templates
    • Zoom Virtual Background templates
• Office templates
  • • Report templates
    • Planner templates
    • Letterhead templates
    • Graphic Organizer templates
    • Invoice templates
    • Checklist templates
    • Wall Calendar templates

and Canva even has free photos and icons to use in your designs, and print-on-demand!

Stock Photos, Icons, and Graphics

Canva has over 1 million stock photographs to choose from that you can use in all of your designs.

Aside from thousands of high-quality, premium images, you can stay within the Canva editor while choosing your image. You can easily switch between images and colours and immediately view your changes.

Canva also has thousands of background images and textures that can easily hold text and other design elements on top of them.

With Canva’s image licensing agreement you can:

• • • Use their content in a Canva design, for a wide range of personal and commercial uses.
    • Use their content in marketing or social media, or even sell merchandise with your design on it.

With Canva’s image licensing agreement you can not:

• • • Resell, redistribute, or take credit for unaltered media provided through Canva.

Schedule Social Media Posts Right From Canva!

With the Canva Pro plan, you can easily post to a variety of social media channels, and even schedule future posts.

• Facebook Groups and Pages
• Instagram Business Account
• Twitter
• LinkedIn
• Pinterest
• Slack
• Tumblr

You can connect multiple social media accounts to your Canva account, and track all of your posts in one place – on your calendar within Canva!

Canva Branding Kit

On Canva’s Pro plan you have the ability to create different branding kits so that you can keep designs on-brand across your team.

In your branding kit you can upload your logo, specify brand fonts as well as your colour palette. This really helps to keep your designs consistent.

The Coolest Features

Canva has a couple of super cool features which I love.

The first is their Background Remover Tool which gives you the ability to remove the background from images. This means you can take the focal point of the image and add it to another image.

The second coolest feature is the Magic Resize – literally allowing you to create one image and transform it, with the click of your mouse, into a variety of image sizes.

The third coolest feature is frames. Frames allow you to easily crop images into shapes. You simply upload the image you want to use, or choose one from Canva’s image library, then drag it into the frame.

And one of my favourites? It’s the ability to animate any design.. like this FREE LEAD MAGNET TEMPLATE I made just for you!

Download your FREE LEAD MAGNET TEMPLATE to edit in Canva!

What’s the cost of Canva?

The great thing about Canva is that you can sign up for the free plan which has good functionality, but if you want to kick it up a notch then I’d suggest the Pro plan. At the time of publishing this blog post the cost is just $149.99 CAD for an annual plan – well worth it for the ease and functionality of Canva Pro!

Download your FREE LEAD MAGNET TEMPLATE to edit in Canva!