Teacher essentials

Learn essential Canva tools to create engaging teaching resources, lesson plans, and activities. Use AI-powered tools to save time, track progress, and give meaningful feedback.

Teacher essentials

1h 4m

7 lessons

Beginner

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Learn essential Canva tools to create engaging teaching resources, lesson plans, and activities. Use AI-powered tools to save time, track progress, and give meaningful feedback.

Teacher essentials

Learn essential Canva tools to create engaging teaching resources, lesson plans, and activities. Use AI-powered tools to save time, track progress, and give meaningful feedback.

Start course

Welcome to the Teacher essentials course. This course will equip you with all the essential skills needed to facilitate engaging learning with Canva.
Welcome to Teacher Essentials
Video
Get familiar with the main areas of Canva Education and know where to find your classes, projects, resources and creation tools.
Navigating your Canva Education homepage
Guide
Create and manage classes, invite students and keep track of classroom activity and student work in one place.
Set up and manage your Classroom
Guide
Canva Tips: Creating a class
Cheatsheet
Discover ready-to-use resources, adapt them for your students and create new activities with AI and Canva tools.
Find, create and adapt teaching resources
Guide
Canva Tips: Create an activity with AI
Cheatsheet
Present content, assign individual activities and run collaborative learning experiences with your class.
Delivering lessons and assignments
Guide
Canva Tips: 6 ways to use Live Learning
Cheatsheet
Present content, assign individual activities and run collaborative learning experiences with your class.
Review student work and give feedback
Guide
Provide feedback on student work
Activity
Congratulations on reaching the end of Teacher Essentials! It's time to test your knowledge and gain your certification. Start transforming your classroom with Canva.
Congratulations on completing Teacher Essentials
Video

Test

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Take this 20-question test and earn a certification - perfect for your CV and LinkedIn.

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What you’ll learn

Navigate your Canva Education homepage and classroom
Find, create, and adapt teaching resources
Deliver lessons and activities in different ways
Review student work and provide feedback

Earn a certificate

157,160 learners

1h 4m

7 lessons

Beginner

Key skills

Student learning

Collaboration and teamwork

Teaching and learning

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Last updated 12 Aug, 2026

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The Course covers every essential component of Canva for educators. It provides easy-to-follow videos and hands-on activities, enabling educators to feel more confident using Canva for their own projects and, more importantly, with their students.

Alyssa, Instructional Design Coach

Frequently asked questions

First, we recommend completing all the course material associated with the certification. This might include tutorial videos, activities, and cheat sheets.
Once you’re ready, start the test at the top of this page. You’ll be asked a series of questions. If you get them all right, you'll be awarded a certificate.
There is no expiry date on our certifications. However, we update the course content and test questions regularly to reflect new updates to Canva, so it’s a good idea to come back and re-test every 12 months or so.
Feel free to try the test again. We don’t limit the number of times you can attempt it.
Please log in to your Canva account to take the test. If you don’t have an account, it’s free to create one. You can do that at canva.com
Yes. At the end of the test, you can add your credential to your LinkedIn profile and share your achievement on social media.
The certification is digital-only for now. You’ll receive an email to access your certification at any time.
Canva certifications are a great way to showcase your skills and proficiency with our platform! While our training courses are not accredited by any external party, Canva itself is a globally recognized company, and our products are used by millions of people all around the world. Earning a Canva certification can help demonstrate your expertise in visual communication and familiarity with one of the most popular design tools available today. It’s a fantastic addition to your professional portfolio!
The name displayed on the certificate is the same as your Canva account name. This can be changed by going to your account settings and clicking Edit next to the name field: www.canva.com/settings/your-account
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