MANILA, PHILIPPINES — Canva for Education is offering an authentic learning experience tailored to the needs of a classroom by empowering teachers and students to create and collaborate online through visuals.
It is entirely free. The user-friendly intuitive platform also includes add-ons such as education-specific content, the ability to create captivating videos, plus every ingredient to bring designs to life with Giphys, over 2 million images, 800,000 icons, and illustrations, 700+ fonts, YouTube integrations, and QR codes.
Yani Hornilla-Donato, Canva’s Manila country manager, said the estimated 27 million students expected to enroll this academic year in the Philippines will benefit from Canva for Education.
“Our goal is to help teachers create engaging classroom content, simply. With a plethora of classroom-friendly templates, relevant to specific learning goals, teachers can create eBooks and eBook covers, beautiful presentations for their subjects, class schedules, worksheets, handouts, online test papers, and posters; the options are only limited by your imagination,” said Hornilla-Donato.
Canva for Education also includes an all-new collaboration space, a review workflow, access to content from Google Drive, Dropbox, Folders, version history, and SSO with Clever and Google.
“We have truly tailored this product to ensure it meets the needs and requirements of schools worldwide, serving as a ‘one-stop-shop’ for creating and collaborating in the classroom,” Hornilla-Donato added.
In a webinar hosted by Canva, in partnership with the Department of Education (DepEd), Mark Anthony Sy, DepEd EdTech coordinator, highlighted the value of equipping educators with tools to empower them in the classroom.
“We have discovered how much Canva for Education can help our teachers be more imaginative in designing materials to engage and motivate their students in the classroom. As a department, we want to empower our educators with tools that will inspire them and help them go beyond limits in their respective classes.”
The webinar also paved the way for Canva and DepEd to launch a Facebook Community for Filipino Teachers that serves as a space for professional support and training as teachers learn and adapt to the modalities of virtual and distance teaching.
Canva and DepEd will hold another Canva for Education webinar for Filipino teachers on June 15, live on DepEd Tech’s Facebook page.
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