Canva: Web and Digital Design Projects

Course details

Did you know that you can create professional graphics without having any graphic design experience? Canva is an easy-to-use, cloud-based design platform—the perfect companion for your web and digital design projects. In this course, instructor Heather Severino shows you how to create lightweight, rapid graphics and share social media and online marketing content with Canva.

Discover the flexible Canva user interface for design projects in personal and team-based workspaces. Learn how to craft, customize, and publish social media content, designing from scratch or with built-in Canva templates and sharing posts on your preferred platforms. Explore your options for logo design, presentations, file sharing, and collaborative editing to drive marketing for your brand. Along the way, Heather gives you pointers for creating graphics that can help make your web and digital design projects really shine.

Concepts

Introduction

Using Canva for design projects

Get Familiar with Canva

Getting to know the Canva app interface
Getting familiar with the personal and team workspaces

Create and Publish Social Media Content

Setting up brand logos, colors, and fonts
Discovering social media templates
Creating a team social media template
Customizing a design for a social media platform
Creating multiple designs for various social media platforms
Creating a video
Publishing a Twitter post from Canva
Publishing a Facebook or Instagram post from Canva
Publishing a LinkedIn post from Canva
Scheduling social media content posting from Canva
Managing connected social media accounts

Create Marketing Content

Designing a logo with Canva
Building a Canva presentation
Sharing a Canva design
Co-editing a Canva design
Delivering a presentation
Custom virtual backgrounds for Microsoft Teams or Zoom
Customizing a print product

Conclusion

Getting help
Doing more with Canva