Publish lessons on Canva
Engage your students by using Ready-to-teach lessons or by building a new lesson with your favorite learning resources.
Using Ready-to-teach lessons
- Search for a subject topic on Home, or select Education in Templates.
- Select See all, or select Resource Type, then Lessons to see all available lessons.
- Select a lesson to preview its grade, subject, and designs.
- Select Use lesson. Canva saves the lesson to Projects, along with its Teacher answer keys.
- Open the lesson's folder to view or edit the Teacher answer keys.
Creating a lesson from scratch
- From Home, select Projects.
- At the top right corner, select Add new, then select Lesson.
If you want to turn a folder into a lesson, select More in the folder, then select Turn into a lesson.
If you’re looking for inspiration, you can browse ready-to-use templates by selecting the Subject, Grade, or Resource type. You can also filter templates by subject, topic, color, grade, or Resource type.
Editing lessons
To change the lesson name or banner, select More, then Rename or Banner. To edit the description, select the Description field.
- Select an activity to edit its contents.
- Select Add an activity to your lesson
- Open the Activity Experience dropdown and select Solo work to let students work on their own copy of an activity and submit it back to you. Select Resource to switch back.
- Drag an activity to a new position to rearrange it.
- To remove an activity, select More on the activity, then Remove from folder. To delete the design, select Move to trash.
- Select Open Lesson to see your lesson sequence.
In the Editor
- Find your activities in the Navigation menu.
- Select the one you want to edit or present. You don't need to leave the editor.
Previewing lessons
View or take the lesson as a student would.
- Open the lesson you want to view as a student.
- Open any activity.
- In the editor, select View as student. A banner shows: You’re viewing this lesson as a student.
- Go through the lesson and activities as a student would, to preview the experience or take the lesson. If you make edits, Canva creates a new copy of the activity, so the original stays the same.
- When you’re done, select Back to editing in the banner to return to your teacher or creator view.
Collaborate with other teachers on building a lesson.
- In the lesson, select Share.
- Add the names of the people you want to share the lesson with.
- To send them a link to the lesson, select Copy link.
Assign a lesson
Deliver the lesson to your students.
- In the lesson, select Assign lesson.
- Select Create a class. Enter the class name and select Create a class. Add your students, then select Create a class.
- Search for the class or the names of the students you want to assign the lesson to.
- To notify your students of the assignment, turn on the toggle.
- Add a message (optional).
- Select Assign.
- A pop-up message confirms the lesson is assigned. Select Copy link to copy the link to your clipboard, then send it to your students.
Tracking lesson completion
In the lesson’s Reporting tab, you can track your student's progress. The summary will show how many have Not started, are In progress, and have Completed the lesson.
Check out this page to see how students can complete lessons.
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