Connect Canva to Canvas (for school administrators)

After you get Canva Education for your school, you can connect it to Canvas so teachers and students can create and submit Canva designs directly from their courses. This guide covers how to set up LTI 1.3 or LTI 1.1 integration.

Before you connect Canva to Canvas, enable learning management system (LMS) integration in Canva.

If you haven’t done this yet, see Connecting Canva to LMS.

Before setting up the LMS integration, make sure you’re in the right team first.

• For single schools or districts, Canva teams, check if you’re in the school or district team.
• For multi-school deployments, an organisation admin configures the LMS at the organisation level.

Learn how to check and switch between multiple teams.

Use these steps to set up Canva's LTI 1.3 integration for your school or district.

1. Sign in to your Canvas account. Note that you need to have Admin access to set up LTI 1.3.

2. Select Admin from the side menu.

3. Under the Admin section, click your School or District.

4. From the admin side panel, click Developer Keys.

5. Click + Developer Key, and then on + LTI Key.

6. Enter the following:

• Key Name (1): Canva Education
• Redirect URLs (2): Paste the Target Link URL from your Canva Settings page (see article on enabling LMS integration).

7. Choose one of the following options to complete the configuration:

• Option A: Paste JSON method (recommended)

  1. In the Method dropdown, select Paste JSON.

  2. Return to your LMS Settings page on Canva, then select Show JSON code
  3. Copy the JSON code, then paste it into the LTI 1.3 Configuration field in Canvas.
  4. Select Save.
  5. Continue to the "Complete the setup" section.

• Option B: Manual configuration

  1. Enter the following details:
     • Title (3): Canva Education
     • Description (4): Students get their own copy, and submit back to SpeedGrader.
     • Target Link URL (5): Paste the Target Link URL from your Canva Settings page (see article on enabling LMS integration).
     • OpenID Connect Initiation URL (6): Paste the OpenID Connect Initiation URL from your Canva Settings page (see article on enabling LMS integration).
     • JWK method (7): Select Public JWK URL (8) and paste the Public JWK URL from your Canva Settings page (see article on enabling LMS integration).

8. Select LTI Advantage Services to expand it and select the following toggles:

9. Select Additional Settings and enter the following:

• Domain: https://www.canva.com
• Icon URL: https://static.canva.com/static/images/canva_logo.png
• Custom fields: (one per line)
  • canvas_domain=$Canvas.api.domain
  • canvas_assignment_id=$Canvas.assignment.id
  • canvas_user_id=$Canvas.user.id
• Privacy Level: Select Public

10. Under Placements, remove existing placements and add Course Navigation, Editor Button, Assignment Selection, and Homework Submission.

11. Click the Editor Button placement button to expand it and enter the following:

• Target Link URL: Paste the Target Link URL from your Canva Settings page (see article on enabling LMS integration).
• Icon URL: https://static.canva.com/static/images/canva_logo.png
• Text: Canva Education
• Selection Height: 500
• Selection Width: 800

12. Click the Assignment Selection placement button to expand it and enter the following:

• Target Link URL: Paste the Target Link URL from your Canva Settings page (see article on enabling LMS integration).
• Select Message Type: LtiDeepLinkingRequest
• Icon URL: https://static.canva.com/static/images/canva_logo.png
• Text: Canva Education

13. Click the homework submission placement button to expand it and enter the following:

• Target link URL: Paste the Target Link URL from your Canva Settings page (see article on enabling LMS integration).
• Icon URL: https://static.canva.com/static/images/canva_logo.png
• Add text: Canva Education

14. After a new key is generated, change its state to On.

15. Click on the Edit button or the pencil icon for the new key.

16. Click on the Method dropdown and select Paste JSON.

17. Look for the course_navigation object as shown in the screenshot below:

18. Change "message_type": "LtiResourceLinkRequest" to "message_type": "LtiResourceLinkRequest", "windowTarget": "_blank".

19. Click Save.

After creating your developer key, you'll need to unlock the app before the LTI 1.3 key can be added to your Canvas courses.

1. From the Developer Keys page, click View in Canvas Apps for the developer key you just created.
2. Click Unlock app.
3. Select Unlock to confirm.
4. Wait for the confirmation message "App unlocked successfully."
5. Verify that the app status shows App is unlocked.

Once the app is unlocked, you can continue to add the LTI 1.3 key to your Canvas courses.

1. On your Canva Settings page, click Next Step to proceed to the last step.
2. Enter the following:

• ClientID: Enter or copy and paste the number code from the third column of your LTI key

• Domain: Enter https://[your-canvas-domain] and replace [your-canvas-domain] with the domain of your Canvas instance

2. Select Finish set up.

1. On your Canvas page, go to Admin, then to Settings, and finally to Apps.
2. Click View App Configurations, then select + App.
3. In the prompt that appears, set the configuration type to By ClientID.
4. Paste the number code generated for your developer key (see Step 1 Client ID from the Setting up from Canva Settings section).
5. Click Install and refresh the course page.

1. On your Canvas page, go to the course where you’d like to install the LTI 1.3 app.
2. From the course side panel, click Apps, then on View App Configurations, and finally on + App
3. From the prompt that’ll open, set the configuration type to By ClientID.
4. Paste the number code generated for your developer key (see Step 1 Client ID from the Setting up from Canva Settings section).
5. Click Install and refresh the course page.
6. Repeat the process for all courses you want to install the LTI 1.3 app.

To test that your integration is working, see Testing your Integration page.

1. Sign in to your Canvas account.

2. Click Admin on the left side.

3. From the sidebar, click Settings, and select the Apps tab.

4. Look for Canva Education, and click Add App.

5. Copy and paste your Consumer key and Shared secret on the form from when you enabled LMS integration in your account.

6. Click Add App to finish.

We recommend that you don’t make any changes to the Placement settings or the configuration of the Canva app after you install it. Just add the Consumer key and the Shared secret.