Digital Content Creation with Canva
Create professional graphics, posts and presentations without a design background.
About this course
Create professional graphics, posts and presentations without a design background. Over seven days you will learn the Canva workspace, the basic principles of layout, colour and typography, and how to design content that suits each social platform.
You will set up a brand kit, design presentations and printed materials, animate elements, edit short videos and use Canva's AI features with care. The course ends with a project in which you design a complete monthly content set for a real or sample brand.
What you'll learn
- Navigate the Canva workspace and manage designs, folders and templates
- Apply basic design principles of layout, colour, typography and hierarchy
- Create social media graphics, posts and stories for different platforms
- Build a brand kit and apply it consistently across designs
- Design presentations, documents and printed materials
- Produce simple animations and short videos
- Export, share and collaborate on designs with a team
Curriculum
- Creating an account and exploring the workspace
- Templates, elements and design types
- Organising designs in folders
- Free and paid features compared
- Layout, alignment and white space
- Colour theory and palettes
- Choosing and pairing fonts
- Visual hierarchy
- Uploading and editing photos
- Background removal and photo effects
- Frames, grids and shapes
- Icons, illustrations and stock content
- Sizes for Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn and X
- Feed posts, carousels and stories
- Designing for mobile screens
- Creating reusable post templates
- Setting up logos, colours and fonts
- Brand templates
- Applying brand guidelines
- Keeping a team on brand
- Designing slide decks
- Presenting directly from Canva
- Reports, flyers and brochures
- Preparing files for print
- Animating text and elements
- Editing short videos and reels
- Adding music and voice
- Exporting video formats
- Generating text and images with AI features
- Magic resize and design suggestions
- Responsible use and checking results
- Sharing and commenting
- Team folders and permissions
- Scheduling and publishing content
- Choosing export formats
- Planning a monthly content set
- Designing a complete social campaign
- Portfolio review and feedback
Who it's for
Small business owners, marketing assistants and anyone who needs to produce visual content quickly and consistently.
Before you start
No formal prerequisites. Bring curiosity and a willingness to practise.
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