Written by Jo Muirhead, Canva Learning Consultant, Wasserman
Jo Muirhead is Australia’s Canva Learning Consultant. She supports Australian Canva for Schooling Systems in integrating Canva into teaching, learning, and school practice. With over 20 years of experience in education and technology integration, Jo conducts free virtual and in-person workshops, helping schools improve administrative workflow, reduce teacher workload, enhance creativity, and build students’ digital literacy skills. Connect with Jo here.
Canva Education is more than just a design platform: it is a comprehensive educational resource that supports learners and educators at every stage. From primary students creating their first presentations, to teachers designing and assigning interactive content, to school administrators curating public-facing materials, Canva provides a user-friendly environment where creativity and learning flourish. Its drag-and-drop interface and vast library of free educational templates (more than 150,000!) make design and content creation accessible to all, regardless of their prior experience and ability level.
One of the greatest strengths of Canva Education is its intuitive design software, which empowers students to explore, create, and demonstrate understanding in meaningful and purposeful ways. The platform provides an accessible starting point with extensive room for growth, ensuring that every learner and teacher can engage with confidence. While beginners can quickly experience success, advanced users can dive deeper into Canva’s evolving tools to innovate, create complex projects, and bring ambitious ideas and goals to life. In this way, Canva supports both immediate engagement and long-term development, fostering creativity that grows with the user.
Canva Education also integrates safe and intuitive AI tools that help students generate ideas, experiment with concepts, and explore creative solutions in a safe and supportive environment. Examples of how AI can be used in education can be seen here.
What sets Canva apart is its commitment to responsible AI use. Read here.
The platform equips educators and students resources and tools to ensure AI complements human creativity, rather than replacing it. This ethical approach allows students to develop digital literacy, critical thinking, and creative problem-solving skills while understanding how to use technology responsibly. Explore Canva’s AI ethics and guidance here.
For educators, Canva Education provides a flexible space to create, customise, and differentiate learning experiences; assign and collect work; give timely feedback and track student progress. With resources spanning all year levels and key learning areas, Canva can be seamlessly embedded into curriculum planning and delivery. It supports everything from early years storytelling and visual literacy, to secondary STEM projects, multimodal assessment, and cross-curricular creative tasks, helping teachers enhance lessons, foster engagement, and develop essential contemporary skills. Check out some classroom recipes here.
In transforming the way students learn and create, Canva Education equips educators with the tools to empower learners with 21st-century skills. Its intuitive design software, safe AI functionality, and seamless curriculum integration make it a highly valuable platform for teaching and learning. By supporting creativity, innovation, and ethical digital practice, Canva Education equips educators to inspire and develop the creative potential of every student.
Jo is speaking at the Brisbane AI in the Classroom Conference on ‘Canva Magic‘. View the Full Conference Program Here.