Canva Digital Skills
Unlock your visual creativity with Canva. You'll master colour palettes, layout, typography, and branded templates to craft stunning flyers, social media content, slide decks, and digital media for school and modern digital marketing.
Prerequisite: No Prior Knowledge Needed
🟢 No Prior Knowledge — Anyone can start without previous experience.
Core Areas Covered
Practical Capstone Project
A 3-piece mini brand pack (social post + flyer + simple presentation).
What You'll Master
Apply visual design principles (colour theory, alignment, typography)
Produce polished social media graphics, flyers, and banners
Build cohesive brand guidelines and reusable design assets
Per-Hour Syllabus & Course Curriculum
Instructional Pacing
8 Hours Recommended (5 hrs minimum accelerated)
Flexible teaching units with hands-on labs and tangible milestones
Workspace layout, template library, elements panel, uploading images.
Explore templates and upload a personal image into a project.
Navigate Canva and start a design from a template or blank canvas.
Alignment, spacing, colour choices, typography basics.
Clean up a messy sample design by fixing alignment/spacing/colour.
Apply basic design principles to improve a layout.
Platform size/format conventions, designing an Instagram post.
Design one complete Instagram post from a brief.
Create a properly-sized, on-brief social media post.
Multi-slide carousel structure and storytelling across slides.
Design a 3–4 slide carousel post.
Design a cohesive multi-slide social carousel.
Building a slide deck in Canva, consistent styling across slides.
Create a short 4–5 slide presentation.
Produce a visually consistent short presentation.
Hierarchy and readability for print/display pieces.
Design one flyer or poster from a sample brief.
Design a clear, readable flyer or poster.
Building a simple brand kit (colours, fonts, logo placement).
Create a brand kit and apply it across two of the earlier designs.
Keep a set of designs visually consistent using a brand kit.
Export formats (PNG/PDF/MP4), sharing and collaboration features.
Export all capstone pieces correctly and share a project link.
Export and share Canva designs in the right format for their purpose.
Flexible Course Pacing & Extension Guidelines
⏱ Extend if: Learner wants to cover Canva video/animation features in depth — add 2–3 hrs, new total 10–11 hrs.
Hour blocks are modular teaching units. Sessions can be merged into 90–120 min deep-dives or split into shorter focused sessions for younger learners while preserving every learning outcome.
Equipment & Prerequisites
Free Canva account
Laptop, desktop computer, or tablet with internet access
Live Online Tuition
₦4,500/hr
$3.39 USD/hr for international learners
✓ Free Know Your Instructor (KYI) session before payment