Canva Training for Schools

Empower your school community with practical, hands-on Canva training designed to inspire creativity, enhance learning, and support curriculum goals. Flexible options are available for educators, administrators, and students.

Upcoming training

Custom training

Canva Training for Educators & Administrators

Equip your staff to harness Canva’s full potential for teaching, learning, and school communications, guided by educators with deep understanding of classroom and school contexts.

Why Bring Canva Training to Your School?

Canva is an all-in-one visual communication platform that equips you with the tools to create engaging and impactful educational content.

Curriculum-Aligned

Curriculum-aligned and practical training with clear and precise learning outcomes.

Develop Creative Skills

Staff develop digital literacy, creative design skills, and confidence in using technology effectively.

Ready-to-Use Resources

Provides ready-to-use ideas, templates, and resources for teaching, communication, and administration.

Build Staff Confidence

Builds confidence for all staff. Supporting teaching, learning, and the wider school initiatives.

Expert-Led Training

Delivered by experienced educators who bridge pedagogy and tech, ensuring skills can be applied quickly.

Workshop Options

Open Webinars

Publicly scheduled sessions you can book individually: no school-wide booking required
Ideal for educators seeking flexible CPD or schools without bespoke training
A range of topics and dates to fit your schedule
Price: £50

Upcoming training

Twilight Webinar for your School

Short 45-minute, focused online session for staff CPD or introducing Canva
Perfect for staff meeting slots
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Half-Day Inset

Keynote presentation + 2 interactive workshops
1 or 2 Canopy Trainers
Hands-on practice with practical classroom strategies
Bespoke packages available

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Full-Day Inset

Keynote presentation + 4 interactive workshops
1 or 2 Canopy Trainers
Deep-dive hands-on sessions on multiple topics
Option: Canva Launch Day for whole-school introduction

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Canva Launch Day

Intensive full-day experience to embed Canva across your school
Combines inspiration, training, and practical application

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Bespoke Packages

Customised training for subject-specific needs, e.g., Canva for Science
Price: On enquiry

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Popular Canva Workshops for Educators

Canopy's support helps build your confidence to create impactful and engaging learning experiences for your students.

Beyond the Template: Creating from Scratch

Move past templates and unleash your creativity with core design principles. This advanced session focuses on typography, colour theory, and layout, empowering you to create unique and impactful designs from a blank canvas.

Building a Visual Brand for Your School

Create a cohesive visual brand for your school's communications. This session guides you through setting up a Brand Kit in Canva, ensuring all your newsletters, social media graphics, and posters are professional, consistent, and on-brand.

Supercharge Revision with Canva

Transform revision and boost student success with engaging resources. Learn how to guide students in creating personalised flashcards, infographics, and revision timetables that support memory, retrieval, and a more effective learning process.

Engage, Explain, Inspire: Quick Video Creation

Bring lessons and school stories to life with quick, engaging videos. This session shows you how to record and edit explainer clips, add captions for accessibility, and repurpose existing slides into a memorable video format for teaching and communication.

Lesson Builder: Design, Structure, and Assign

Design complete, multi-part lessons that blend different learning formats. This session teaches you how to combine presentations, Docs, and Whiteboards into a single project, making it simple to create and assign rich, blended learning experiences for your students.

Interactive Learning: Crafting Collaborative Projects

Turn passive learning into active collaboration with Canva's powerful team features. Learn how to set up collaborative projects where students work together in real-time on presentations, videos, and digital portfolios, fostering engagement and teamwork.

Multipage Websites for Educators & Admins

Turn Canva into your go-to tool for simple school websites or student micro-sites. This session shows you how to create sites for classroom resources, community communication, and club pages, with simple sharing settings and no prior web design experience required.

Design for Everyone: Canva AI for Accessibility

Harness Canva AI to create inclusive and accessible learning resources effortlessly. Discover how to use accessibility checks, Magic Write, AI voiceovers, and more to ensure your lessons and materials are engaging and accessible for every learner.

Canva Code for Interactive Widgets

Transform teaching and simplify classroom tasks with interactive widgets. This session explores how to use Canva Code to build tools such as student group work creators and progress trackers that streamline activities and enhance student engagement.

Canva Student-Focused Training

Give your students the chance to unlock creativity, develop digital skills, and enhance subject knowledge. Led by qualified teachers who understand both curriculum and classroom needs.

Why Bring Canva Training to Your Students?

Curriculum-Aligned

Curriculum-aligned and practical training with clear learning outcomes.

Develop Creative Skills

Students develop digital literacy, creativity, and communication skills.

Ready-to-Use Resources

Teachers gain ready-to-use ideas and classroom resources.

Build Student Confidence

Builds confidence for all learners: from KS1 explorers to KS4 exam-preppers.

Expert-Led Training

Delivered by experienced educators who bridge pedagogy and technology.

Workshop Options

To book Canva Student-Focused training, please ensure your school has an authenticated Canva domain and single sign-on enabled. In some circumstances, AI tools might need to be activated for the participating student groups.

Half-Day Workshops

Hands-on project-based session
1 or 2 Canopy Trainers
Option to combine workshops for multi-subject learning

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Full-Day Workshops

Includes 4 interactive workshops of your choice
1 or 2 Canopy Trainers
Hands-on practice and creative challenges
Perfect for whole-school initiatives or themed creative days

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Bespoke Student Packages

Custom sessions for subject-specific projects, exam prep, or cross-curricular creativity.
Price: On enquiry

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Popular Canva Workshops for Students

Subject-Specific Workshops (KS1–KS4)

Mini Beasts Explorer (KS1/KS2)

Take students on a digital exploration of the natural world. Students will use Canva to research insects and habitats, creating illustrated posters or mini e-books. The finished products can be shared with peers, serving as a class field guide.

Infographics: Science & Humanities

Help students visualise complex knowledge and big ideas. They will create flowcharts for scientific processes, timelines for history, or annotated maps for geography. Finished infographics can be shared in presentations or project portfolios.

Graphic Novels: Literacy & Languages

Bring storytelling to life with Canva’s comic tools. Students choose templates, add characters, and write speech bubbles to practice dialogue or retell stories. Projects can be published digitally or printed for classroom displays.

Skills-Based Workshops

Subject-Specific Workshops (KS1–KS4)

Using Canva for Creative Revision

Transform how students revise and consolidate learning. They design personalised resources like flashcards, infographics, and revision timetables. Export digitally or print, helping to improve memory and retrieval with visual materials.

Design Your Digital Portfolio (KS3/KS4)

Encourage students to showcase their learning journey. They collect work samples into multi-page documents, adding reflections and personal branding. Portfolios can be exported as PDFs or published as interactive websites, giving students ownership.

Supercharge Presentations with Canva AI

Help students use AI responsibly to enhance their project work. They will use Magic Write to draft slide outlines and add AI-generated visuals. Students then deliver concise 2-3 slide “mini talks” that are engaging and polished.

Skills-Based Workshops

Creative Projects

Engage, Explain, Inspire: Quick Video Creation

Bring lessons and stories to life with Canva video. Students will learn to create short, engaging videos by recording and editing clips, adding captions, and repurposing existing materials to produce memorable, professional-looking projects.

Classroom & Club Event Pages (KS3/KS4)

Students use Canva to create engaging multipage websites for classroom or club activities. They design event pages with photos and key information, learning to present content visually and publish it digitally or in print.

Creative Storytelling Projects

Students design zines, comics, or illustrated short stories, incorporating artwork, photos, and graphics. Finished projects can be shared digitally or printed, combining creativity with communication and design skills.