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Canva is a graphic design platform that allows users to create social media graphics, presentations, posters and other visual content.

Website: canva.com
Cost: Free and Premium plans
Availability: Online and iPad app

Rankings in the previous surveys: 

2022: 9 2021: 13 2020: 18 2019: 34 2018: 22 2017: 37 2016: 57 2015: 81
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Comments on Canva in 2023

“a graphic design tool that enables teachers and students to create illustrations, posters, presentations, and other materials for collaborative work.” Nosenko Olena, K12 teacher, Ukraine

“I love working with Canva because it helps with the creative process. Students as well as adults have more access to create quality work. It allows people to create posters, booklets, fliers, and all forms of various presentation materials.” Holly Lang, Elementary teacher, US

“Canva has become an essential tool for nurturing my creativity, and here’s why: Its intuitive interface and user-friendly features make it incredibly easy to use. Whether I’m working on professional projects or simply exploring my creative side for personal enjoyment, Canva provides a seamless and enjoyable experience. I am consistently amazed by the vast array of design options and templates that allow me to bring my ideas to life with minimal effort. Canva sparks my imagination and empowers me to create visually stunning content that captivates both myself and others. It has become an indispensable companion for unleashing my creativity across various aspects of my life, merging work and personal fun seamlessly.” Customer Service Manager, Mexico

“I create anything for learning assets. PPT Slide, Banner and Twibbonize because my friend teacher love twibbonize so much!” Luqman Darwis, Marketer and Part Time as Photographer Lecturer for High School, Indonesia

“Everything made possible. I love doing posters and invitations here. I can also do business since it’s easy to use and free access to use the templates avaiable.” Diana Cayaban, teacher, Philippines

Previous comments on Canva

“Great platform which help me to make my lessons colourful , easy, interesting, fun etc. a lot of different instruments which can make things better” Katerina, K12 teacher, Ukraine, 2022

“Canva is a graphic design tool that I used throughout the year to make student worksheets, posters, graphic organizers, and communication for parents. It has an option for students to use as well, but I mainly used it for myself in order to get comfortable with it. There are a ton of free options available to help customize classroom content.” Teacher, USA, 2022

“It seems I’m doing something in Canva almost every day. I keep discovering useful new things that it can do like editing PDFs, exporting designs to PowerPoint, create & edit videos and more.” Mike Taylor, Learning & Design Consultant, USA, 2022

“I advise my students to use Canva for learning activities (creating infographics) and assignments (e-portfolio). This is b/c of student recommendations over the years based on its user-friendly design. I also see that they are expanding the free features regularly.” Karen Caldwell, University educator and consultant, Canada, 2022

“My use of the graphic design website Canva has evolved over the years. I started by using it to create graphics and printable signs for classes. Now I also use it to create presentations (which can include embedded content, slides, videos, etc.). As I just revisited Canva features, I discovered even more things I wasn’t even aware that Canva can do.”  Bonni Stachowiak, Producer and host of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast, USA, 2022

“Graphic design made easy. That’s Canva. In my post “Easy Decor for LMS”, I demonstrate how I make buttons, about me’s, and other graphics in my Learning Management System to jazz up my course shells. I also utilize the Canva for Education account so students can make and submit creative projects.” Lauran Kerr-Heraly, History Professor, USA, 2022

“Another tool to rapidly create good looking one sheets, flyers, and mini presentations.” Mary Nunaley, elearning experience designer, USA, 2021

“I have two different Canva Pro accounts (personal and work), because it has that much benefit. For each context, I can have our various logos, color scheme(s), and photos/graphics uploaded and saved.” Bonni Stachowiak, HE educator, USA, 2021

“Helps tremendously to make up for the fact that we aren’t large enough to have a marketing team.” Jan Walters, CLO, USA, 2021

“Best tool for creating graphic displays using templates and thousands of free photos. Aligns the sizing of any image to match all social media tools.” CoachCarole, Author, Teacher, Course designer, Genealogist, Australia, 2021

“Makes our learning events flyers and catalogs a lot easier to make.” Roberto Galvez, Corporate Services Director, Indonesia, 2021

“The Canva tool provides many opportunities in education, it is easy to use, the contents are very beautiful and very applicable, students are happy to make posters and logos in this tool.” Regina Vukasović, Biology and Chemistry teacher, Croatia, 2021

“We use Canva to create shareable images such as infographics, slides and posters for use within the team and outside it. We like the fact that we can keep our look consistent across the team.” OU Learning Design team, UK, 2021

“We live in a visual world and when you need graphic design, Canva is the place to start. There are a lot of options for design tools out there but none that can top Canva for its combination of usability, breadth of content types, and great looking designs.” Mike Taylor, USA, 2020

“Sophisticated software tool for creating graphics eg flyers, headers, logos” Coach Carole, Learning Designer, Australia, 2020

“For Grafic-Dummies like me a great tool to create nice grafics, slides and so on” Kathrin Quilling, Digital Lerning Specialist, Germany, 2020

“Provides a user friendly interface for creating a variety of visual content.” Science Teacher, USA, 2020

“design tool for creating learning materials and lesson boards, Marie-Louise Kok, Digital Learning Specialist, Netherlands, 2020

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