Canva is a new service that makes it easy to create beautiful slides, flyers, posters, infographics, and photo collages. Creating these graphics on Canva is a drag-and-drop process. Start by selecting a template then dragging and dropping into place background designs, pictures, clip art, and text boxes. Canva offers a huge library of clip art and photographs to use in your designs. You can also upload your own images to use in your graphics. Your completed Canva projects can be downloaded as PDF and PNG files. You can also simply link to your online graphic.

Canva is currently in beta. You will have to sign up and wait for an invitation. My invitation arrived after 48 hours.

Applications for Education
Canva could be used in many types of student projects. Students could use Canva to design covers for slidedecks or covers for reports. Students could use Canva to create infographics. Creating flyers to advertise a school event is also a possible use of Canva by students.

H/T to Terri Eichholz.