Canva, the online graphic design platform, launched canvas for campus today, a new paid subscription for universities and colleges. Subscription gives students, faculty, staff, and campus administrators access to Canva’s full suite of tools, including professional and educational templates like reports, presentations, and other documents, plus millions of images, videos, audio, infographics, and more.
Canva for Campus is now available to all higher education institutions around the world. It has already been available to select schools, including Dartmouth College, Vanderbilt University, and the University of Redlands.
Subscription is essentially a version of Team Canvas, which launched in August 2022. It has the same features as Teams but with a focus on schools and universities. This includes all of your Visual Worksuite, such as Canva Docs, Canva Websites, Canva Whiteboards, and Data Visualization.
With Canva for Campus, students, faculty, staff, and other departments are divided into “teams.” Each team gets 1TB of storage. Team members will be able to brainstorm with the whiteboard collaboration tool, create content like group projects or conferences, as well as provide real-time feedback with text comments or visual stickers, share, edit, and review—all in one place. .
The price of the new subscription varies, depending on the total size of the student body. Canva co-founder and chief product officer Cameron Adams explained to TechCrunch that users only pay for staff accounts and once a certain threshold of staff licenses has been purchased, students get free access. For example, if a college or university has a student population of 5,000 and purchases 60 staff licenses, all of these students get free access.
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“Over the past few years, we have seen Canva become a valued tool at thousands of universities around the world. We are proud to help them achieve their best results and gain the critical skill of visual communication to bring to the workplace,” said Carly Daff, director of equipment and education at Canva. “By launching Canva for Campus, we hope to bring all the staff and students of the university together to achieve their goals.”
Canva is considered a useful tool for both students and companies. In fact, there have been cases where companies include in Work offers who want candidates who have experience with Canva. there is even online courses that teach college students how to use Canva. As of 2022, Canva has over 110 million users each month.
“With this new offering, we are bridging the gap between school and the workplace, creating a natural pathway for students to become advocates and catalysts for adopting Canva in their future workplaces,” the company told TechCrunch.
Features for faculty and staff include the ability to create groups and folders, and access approval workflows and analysis dashboards. Teachers can also share assignments with students through integrations like Canvas, Blackboard, Schoology, BrightSpace, and more.
Canva for Campus is also likely to be beneficial for college and university marketing teams, as the subscription includes “Brand Kits,” where users can upload their brand fonts, colors, and logos to create templates for Branding templates for newsletters, social media posts, and students. registration documents.
Separately, administrators can enable a single sign-on (SSO) authentication method to manage staff and student access. They can also access reports and admin permissions.
Canva for Campus is an extension of canvas For Education, which gives teachers and students free access to premium Canva features, such as educational templates for any subject, grade (K-12), or topic; access to images, fonts, videos and animations; editing functions; and the ability to give feedback on tasks. Teachers can also integrate with classroom tools such as D2L, Moodle, Google Classroom, and Microsoft Teams. The company claims that more than 30 million students and teachers around the world use Canva for Education.
