School teams on Canva

Canva for Education helps your school community collaborate, communicate, and share learning materials in one place using school teams. In this article, you’ll learn how to create a school team, invite members, make your team discoverable, and join an existing team.

A school team is a shared Canva space where teachers and students at the same school can work together.

If you teach kindergarten to grade 12 (K-12) and you’re verified for Canva Education, to create or joina a school team.

With a school team, you can:

• Invite teachers and students to join your team.
• Create classes to group students for your classroom.
• Share learning materials using class folders.
• Let students join multiple classes.

Note: School teams do not officially represent your school. If you want to use Canva for Education across your whole school, contact Canva for help.

School teams have three roles with different permissions:

• Admin: Has full control over the school team. Admins can manage members, create classes, access Brand (team logos, colours, and fonts), and mark content as a favourite for the team. Teachers who create the school team become admins.
• Teacher: Can create and edit designs, manage their own classes, and access most team features. Teachers can share folders and make content findable within the team.
• Student: Can create designs, join classes, and work on shared projects. Students can’t create classes and don’t see Brand on their Homepage.

School teams have three roles with different permissions:

• Admin: Has full control over the school team. Admins can manage members, create classes, access Brand (team logos, colours, and fonts), and mark content as a favourite for the team. Teachers who create the school team become admins.
• Teacher: Can create and edit designs, manage their own classes, and access most team features. Teachers can share folders and make content findable within the team.
• Student: Can create designs, join classes, and work on shared projects. Students can’t create classes and don’t see Brand on their Homepage.

School teams are created when you sign up for Canva Education as a verified teacher. Once you’re approved, your school team is automatically created and you’ll become a team admin.

Tip: Use your school email address during sign-up to make it easier for students and co-teachers to find and join your team.

1. Go to the Canva Education sign-up page .
2. Select Get verified as a teacher.
3. Complete the teacher verification process.
4. Once approved, your school team will be created automatically

After your school team is created, you can:

• Invite teachers and students to join your team.
• Create classes and organise students.
• Share learning materials through class folders.

You can make your school team publicly discoverable so other teachers and students at your school can find and request to join it.

1. From the
   Homepage, go to
   Settings.
2. Select Controls.
3. Under Team access, click the dropdown and select ‘Anyone can request to join’.
4. Add your school team details.
5. Select Confirm.

Once your School team is discoverable, teachers and students can search for your school and request to join.

Tip: Your School team is private by default. Only make it discoverable if you want others at your school to find and join your team.

As the team owner, you'll get email notifications when someone wants to join your School team. You can accept or decline membership requests. You can also add another admin to help approve or reject requests.

You can join your school’s existing team. Use your school email address so teachers can find you more easily.

Before you start: If you're using a personal email address, switch it to your school email address first.

To access Canva Education, you’ll need to complete teacher verification.

• Go to the teacher verification page: https://www.canva.com/edu-signup/
• Follow the prompts to complete verification.

• If your school has teams associated with your email domain, you may see options to join them.
• If no teams appear, ask your school team admin (or another teacher) to send you an invite link to join.

• If the expected team doesn’t appear, confirm your school email address is correct and matches the team’s domain.
• If the team is set to Invite only, ask a colleague at your school to invite you.

No. Only admins and teachers can create classes in a school team. Students can join classes they’re invited to.

Brand is visible to admins and teachers on the Homepage. Students can still access Brand resources shared with them but won't see Brand on their Homepage.

You can join a school team when you upgrade to Canva for Education. You can also request to join (if the team allows requests), or ask a team admin to invite you.

You can connect one account per social media platform to your school team. If you already connected more than one account, you can keep using them. You won’t be able to connect any more accounts.