I bet you didn't know you can do THIS in Canva

Welcome back to another episode of the Edumagic podcast. This episode is brought to you by my TPT store, where you can find resources to help you during your college career as an education major. Today's episode is titled a few things you might not know that you can do in canva. In this episode, we will check some of my favorite features of Canva for Edu, which include canva presentations, worksheets, infographics, and a QR code creator.

So first and foremost, let's head on over to canva.com, and you can create an educator account.

Back in 2014, when I first started teaching, I was looking for a poster creation tool online. My colleague Brittany Groff showed me Canva. There's so much you can do here. When I got into Canva more deeply that semester, I found there's a lot you can do within it, from creating posts for social media to designing flyers and infographics.

If you're a practicing teacher, if you go to Canva for education, you can create a free educator account. It is phenomenal. You can see with Canva for EDU. You can have

• assignments

• a class with classwork

• plan out your content

• it includes a lot of different templates just for teachers

So I will walk you through a few of my favorite options here within Canva.

Presentations

• Designing your presentations is already done. All you have to do is worry about adding in your content.

• Add each slide individually

• Or you can add all of them

• Add in your elements like shapes and graphics, photos, and videos.

• You can search with the search feature and filter out content.

• Change up the background of the design.

QR codes

So instead of going to a QR code creator, downloading the QR code image, and uploading it here into Canva, you can click on QR in Canva. To create a QR code in canva:

• Select the QR code on the left side

• Type in your favorite website

• Click generate code

Now we have a code that goes to our favorite website.

Character creation

You can also create and customize the character. This feature could be a neat project for students to develop their characters in a book they wrote. Or create a historical figure using these characters. You can customize

• clothes

• facial expression

• skin tone

• hair color

Create an infographic in Canva

So instead of reading a research article and then writing a paper on it, I have my students read the research article and then create an infographic. They can download their infographic as a JPEG or PNG as a PDF. If they have any movie elements on their infographic, they can download them as MP4.

You can start from scratch or create from a template. Then edit the design as you see fit with charts, graphics, and graphs. You can also edit the text in the infographic to make it your own.

Create digital portfolio headers

My students started using Google classroom headers for their digital portfolio headers. So they customize the content, the text, and some of the backgrounds. Then they downloaded it and uploaded it as a header image into Weebly or Wix.

Instead of just thinking, that's just for Google classroom. You can use it for your digital portfolio, making some excellent visuals for your projects.

Canva for worksheets

You can edit the worksheet for your own needs. Create a canva worksheet and print them or use them in a PDF editor of your choice. Then you can have students interact with the worksheet digital using tools like

• TeacherMade

• Class Kick