This is where Canva comes in. With ready-to-use templates for just about anything you would need, it’s easy to add some spice to the classroom—all while saving time.
Here are 10 Canva templates you can use for your classroom.
1. Education Presentation
Making a presentation but couldn’t get past Slide #1? Canva is here to save you the trouble of creating one from scratch.
Just look up “education presentation” from your Canva home page, and you’ll see hundreds of templates for different subjects. There is one for English, geography, and even art! You can also find templates for introducing yourself and explaining the class syllabus.
All the templates are fully customizable, so you can sprinkle a touch of your personality into your presentations. It’s also easy to share the presentation with the class via links, social media, and messaging apps like WhatsApp and iMessage.
If you want to take it up a notch, you can also turn your presentations into a video in Canva.
2. Lesson Plan
It’s hard to think about what topics to cover for your lesson when you’re staring at a plain and boring word document. Bring your lesson plan to life with one of Canva’s over 700 templates.
These fully customizable Lesson Plan templates make it easy for you to outline the objectives, enumerate the points of discussion, and include potential questions for quizzes. There are also templates available for planning out your lesson plan for the whole week, so it will be easier to see what topics need to be covered.
Once you’re happy with how your lesson plan looks, you can download it as a PDF for printing.
3. Class Schedule
There are better ways of presenting your class schedule than putting it in an Excel file or a document with a plain table. One way is using Canva’s 2,308 class schedule templates.
The templates organize your class schedule into a colorful matrix to make it more visually appealing, especially if you’re using it as your laptop wallpaper. After editing the template, you can then share it with your students.
4. Worksheet
Worksheets available online and in books can begin to get boring after having been reused for several years. Sometimes, they don’t even fit your course objectives, but since they can’t be edited, you end up remaking them from top to bottom.
Canva has the solution for you. With its ready-to-use but customizable worksheet templates, you can change the wordings and layout to adapt to your classroom exercise. There’s a template for a coloring activity, letter tracing, and writing prompt, to name a few.
Similar to the lesson plan templates, you can also download this as a PDF for printing or just share it online.
5. Zoom Virtual Background
When online learning became the norm during the height of the pandemic, you probably scrambled to clean your house (or a corner of your house) to make it presentable for your online classes. Luckily, backgrounds became a mainstream thing, and even Canva has plenty of them available.
Just look up Zoom backgrounds and pick a template that suits your class. You can also edit it however you see fit.
6. Google Classroom Header
Tired of looking at the default header that you have in your Google Classroom? You can switch it up a notch with Canva’s 1600+ templates.
These templates are already formatted to fit your Google Classroom perfectly, and they’re easy to customize to your liking. Plus, they give your online space a more personal touch.
7. Classroom Poster
You probably already know the profound effects a classroom’s design has on how your students learn. When they’re somewhere with a welcoming atmosphere, they are more encouraged to study and listen.
To help you build this kind of atmosphere in your classroom, you can simply hop onto Canva and search for Classroom Posters on the homepage. This will bring up hundreds of templates that you can print and keep in your room, from class rules and motivational posters to visual memory aids and course outlines.
8. Classroom Announcement
It’s easier to notice classroom announcements when they’re printed with colorful backgrounds and giant texts. But creating one on the spot can be quite time-consuming for the not-so-creative educators.
No worries, though, because you can make a flyer for any occasion using Canva. It has almost 800 templates to help you get that announcement out right away, and all you really need to do is change the wording and add some of your personal touches.
9. Flashcard
While flashcards look like they’re simple to make, they can actually take up a substantial amount of time in your day. You have to make sure each one is the same size as the others. After that, look for matching photos so they all look coherent.
Of course, you can always look for printable ones online. But why go through the trouble when you can just get some from Canva? There are multiple flashcard templates on the platform that you can go ahead and download for printing right away.
10. Certificate
Learning is better with awards and recognition. But while you want to reward your excellent students with fun prizes for a job well done, it might not always be within your budget.
Thankfully, Canva has a cheaper alternative that will only cost you a few cents: certificates. You can find almost 10,000 certificate templates on the platform, and each one is readily customizable to fit the kind of awards you have in mind. Feel free to add other elements to the template, like drawings of gold medals and rainbows.
These certificate templates can also come in handy for more formal events like graduation or seminars.
Make Classroom Documents More Creative With Canva
Canva has multiple ways to help you with making learning fun and personalized. Get your creative juices flowing, and make sure to share your templates with other educators who need a little help revitalizing their own classes.
