Create and personalize lesson plans, infographics, posters, video, and more. 100% free for teachers and students. Everyone on campus can create and communicate in any format, from docs, to presentations, to video, to websites and whiteboards. Stay on-brand across departments and teams with brand controls. Transform reports, presentations, and documents with branded templates.
Get started using Canva by following the steps below:
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Request a Canva Premium AccountAccept Your Canva Premium Account InviteSign Into Your Canva Premium AccountHow to Enable Canva for Education in Canvas (for Faculty)Support Resources
Request a Canva Premium Account
To request a Canva premium account, please fill out and submit the Request Canva Account form.
Please Note: All content created using FSW Canva licenses must be branded and intended for college-related purposes, as the licenses are funded by the college.
The only exception is for faculty and instructional designers creating course content, which does not require branding or OMSC approval.
To request access to the course content team, please email marketing@fsw.edu.
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Accept your Canva Premium Account Invite
Open Outlook and find the Canva email invitation. Select "Accept Invitation."
If an Ad-Block error occurs, (1) check the "Don't warn me again about this site". Then (2) select "Proceed."
Select "Sign up with your work email."
(1) Ensure the email listed is correct (FSW email). (2) Then select "Continue."
- Please note, it will be the username@fsw.edu email and NOT the firstname.lastname@fsw.edu email.
(1) Ensure the username listed is correct (Portal username). Then (2) select "Create account using SSO."
Sign in using your secure Portal login.
Please note: you might skip this part if you are already logged into the portal in another tab.
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Sign Into Your Canva Premium Account
Open Google Chrome and navigate to https://www.canva.com/
Select "Log in" from the top right corner.
Select "Continue another way."
Select "Continue with work email."
(1) Enter your work email into the type field, and then (2) click "Continue."
- Please note, it will be the username@fsw.edu email and NOT the firstname.lastname@fsw.edu email.
Select "Log in with SSO."
Sign in using your secure Portal login.
Please note: you might skip this part if you are already logged into the portal in another tab.
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How to Enable Canva for Education in Canvas (for Faculty)
Please visit the Canva for Education Teacher Setup Guide and Using Canva on Canvas (for teachers) guides for more information on how to setup and use Canva within your Canvas courses.
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Support Resources
If you receive an error when opening Canva for Education from Canvas, please visit the Error when opening Canva for Education from LMS guide for troubleshooting steps.
Please find additional ideas, tutorials, tips, and tricks for utilizing Canvas for Education in the Teach with Canva guide.
You can also enroll in the FSW Canva Toolkit course within Canvas to explore Canva for Campus access.
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