Canva is launching a new paid plan for universities and colleges

Canva, the online graphic design platform, today launched Canva for Campus, a new paid subscription for universities and colleges. Subscription gives students, faculty, staff, and campus administrators access to the full Canva tool suite, including professional and educational templates such as reports, presentations, and other documents, as well as millions of images, videos, audio files, infographics, and more.

Canva for Campus is now available to all higher education institutions worldwide. It was already available to select schools, including Dartmouth College, Vanderbilt University, and the University of Redlands.

Subscription is essentially a Teams version of Canva released in August 2022. It has the same features as Teams, but targets schools and universities. This includes the full visual toolset such as B. Canva Docs, Canva Websites, Canva Whiteboards and Data Visualization.

With Canva for Campus, students, faculty, staff, and other departments are organized into “teams.” Each team gets 1 TB of storage space. Team members can brainstorm with the whiteboard collaboration tool, create content such as group projects or conferences, and provide real-time feedback, share, edit and review with text annotations or visual stickers – all in one place.

New subscription prices vary based on the overall size of the student body. Cameron Adams, co-founder and chief product officer at Canva, told TechCrunch that users only pay for Team accounts, and students get free access once a certain limit of Team licenses are purchased. For example, if a college or university has 5,000 students and they purchase 60 employee licenses, all those students will have free access.

“Over the past few years, we’ve seen Canva become a valuable resource in thousands of universities around the world. We are proud to help them achieve their best results and gain essential visual communication skills to get them into the workplace,” said Carly Daff, Director of Equipment and Education at Canva. “By launching Canva for Campus, we hope to bring all of the university’s staff and students together to achieve their goals.”

Canva is considered a useful tool for both students and businesses. There are even instances where companies mention in job postings that they are looking for candidates with Canva experience. There are even online courses that teach students how to use Canva. By 2022, Canva will have more than 110 million monthly users.

“With this new offering, we are bridging the gap between school and work, creating a natural path for students to become advocates and catalysts for Canva adoption in their future workplaces,” the company told TechCrunch.

Features for faculty and staff include the ability to create groups and folders and access approval workflows and analytics dashboards. Teachers can also share assignments with students through integrations such as Canvas, Blackboard, Schoology, BrightSpace, and more.

Canva for Campus is also likely to be useful for college and university marketing teams as the plan includes “Brand Kits” where users can upload their fonts, colors, and brand logos to create mockup templates. students. registration documents.

Separately, administrators can enable a single sign-on (SSO) authentication method to manage employee and student access. You can also access reports and administrative permissions.

Canva for Campus is an educational extension to Canva that gives teachers and students free access to premium Canva features such as: B. Education templates for any subject, grade (K-12) or subject; Access images, fonts, videos and animations; editing functions; and the ability to provide feedback on tasks. Teachers can also integrate tools into the classroom, such as D2L, Moodle, Google Classroom, and Microsoft Teams. The company claims that more than 30 million students and educators around the world use Canva for Education.