Canva for Schools and Districts
Empower teachers, students, and staff to collaborate and communicate visually with Canva Education, 100% free for k-12 Schools. Unlock Canva Education for your district today.
Yes, it's 100% free. Canva believes in equal opportunity for all students. Making Canva Education 100% free for primary and secondary schools and districts is our way of giving back.
Discover the full potential of Canva for your School
Ideate, create, review, and collaborate with ease between teachers, students, and staff members – all in one place. Get your entire school system collaborating together quickly.
You’re in control with Canva. Manage or restrict permissions as you need. Log in fast and securely with single sign-on (SSO). Canva Education is FERPA and COPPA compliant, a signatory of the US National Data Privacy Agreement, and will provide a GDPR-compliant Data Processing Addendum.
Easily connect work back to your LMS. Create engaging assignments with Canva, then share and review student assignments from your LMS. Canva supports integration with many popular student information systems and data integration tools, including Canvas, Google Classroom, Schoology, Classlink, PowerSchool, Infinite Campus, Aeries, Skyward, Global Grid for Learning, and more(opens in a new tab or window).
Access thousands of high-quality, educational resources to personalize for your students. Quickly craft compelling visual content for administrative or educational needs with Docs, Presentations, Video, Websites, Social Media, Whiteboards, and Print.
Why Canva for Schools & Districts?
- Universal access to premium features across your school or district, with single sign-on and data protection.
- Easily engage students with Canva’s Visual Suite in every lesson and project.
- Fully customizable settings and controls for peace of mind.
- Streamline workflows and encourage collaboration at all levels.
- Free professional learning resources and customer support for your school.
There are multiple ways you can register for Canva Education, all 100% free.
Choose from the flexible setup options below to get you started quickly. If you are part of a large institution with over 10,000 users, or you’re not sure which setup best suits your needs, contact us(opens in a new tab or window) to discuss a rollout.
Option 1
Sign up now with Google
For institutions with up to 10,000 users, skip the application process and sign up for Canva Education the same day using your school or district’s existing Google Workspace for Education. By signing up through Google, your school district will be set up with a single team in Canva—bringing all your schools together in one place.
Sign up through Google
Option 2
Apply for access
For institutions of any size using a SAML identity provider other than Google Workspace or institutions with 10,000+ users using Google Workspace for Education, submit your application to unlock Canva Education. This includes schools, districts, or systems with existing rostering solutions. We’ll review your application and get you set up.
Apply now
A time-saving, all-in-one tool, 100% free
Canva supports everyone in your school, from administrators, to teachers, to students.
A seamless fit in your learning ecosystem
Get everyone in the institution onto Canva’s top-tier education offering, with a domain-wide rollout of premium features, management controls, and data protections. Support seamless collaboration and visual communication for students, teachers, and staff. Enjoy the convenience and security of a single sign-on (SSO) and integrations with your favorite tools.
What are people saying about Canva Education?
Join thousands of schools across the globe who love Canva Education
“I consider myself a creative person outside of school. I love painting, arts and crafts. But at school, my creativity comes through technology. Implementing lessons in Canva is far more enjoyable as a teacher than showing them in different platforms.”
Liz Johnson
Assistant Principal, Wirreanda Public School
Watch on-demand webinar to learn how it works
Watch our on-demand webinar at your own convenience to learn more about Canva Education and how it could benefit your school organization.
Bring learning to life with Canva
Everyone in your school or district can create presentations, posters, videos, digital whiteboards, newsletters, teacher portals, marketing collateral, parent communication websites, and so much more, all in Canva.
K-12 teachers
Customize content to engage students in every lesson, class, or project. Design visual docs, perfect presentations, brainstorm on whiteboards, and much more.
Schools & Districts
Make your daily tasks a breeze with fast workflows, knowledge sharing, and collaboration between any department.
Students
Achieve personal and academic goals and stand out in the classroom with creative tools and build critical skills in design, digital communication, data visualisation, and more.
Higher Education
Empower everyone in your higher education institution to create, collaborate, and communicate with Canva.
Frequently asked questions
Yes! Canva Education is 100% free, with no paywalls or nasty surprises.
It’s our commitment that Canva will remain 100% free for K-12 (primary and secondary) educators, their students, as well as qualified school districts and institutions.
Canva Education empowers teachers, students, and staff to do their best work with ease with the power of visual communication, 100% free.
Whether you’re learning the skills of the future, creatively engaging the classroom, collaborating on a group assignment, building a newsletter, you can do it with Canva, and unlock everyone’s potential.
With Canva for Schools & Districts, your entire school or district can access all Canva Education has to offer at scale, 100% free. This includes all the benefits of Canva Education plus access to Brand Kits in your own Brand Hub to create consistency, security, centralized account provisioning, tools integrations, and more.
Most of Canva’s premium features are included in Canva Education, as well as dedicated features for educators, such as LMS integrations, the ability to share work and assignments with students, thousands of high quality educational templates, and more.
School districts and institutions can also enjoy enterprise-grade security features, deployment via SSO, onboarding support, and professional development training - all for free.
Canva Education is available for schools, districts and individual educators at the K-12 (primary and secondary) level.
Students can create, collaborate, and communicate visually in the classroom, while teachers and administrators can save time and engage their audiences with ease. Check out our full eligibility guidelines(opens in a new tab or window).
Canva for Schools & Districts is only available for K-12 (primary and secondary) educators, students, and staff at qualified school districts and institutions. Check out our full eligibility guidelines(opens in a new tab or window). Higher education institution can get access to Canva for Campus(opens in a new tab or window).
With Canva for Schools & Districts, everyone in your school can access all Canva Education has to offer at scale.
Technical requirements for Canva for Schools & Districts include:
- Your institution must connect Canva to a SAML 2.0-compatible single sign-on (SSO) provider
- Your institution must have its own email domain(s), from which users will log in to Canva
No problem. Once your school or districts integrates with Canva, users will not only gain access to their new managed school teams, but will also retain access to their pre-existing content, all via a single login.
The benefits of Canva for Schools & Districts are:
- Ensuring all of your teachers, students, and staff have Canva Education, along with its premium features and data protections, all for free
- Enable SSO and district-wide access for all teachers, students, and staff
- Streamlined management and reporting permissions
- Advanced District level controls including:
- Elements control
- Photo control
- Video and music control
- Publish control
- Apps control
- templates control
- Integrations with your LMS and go-to classroom tools, such as Canvas, Schoology, Microsoft Teams, Google Classroom
- Ongoing dedicated strategic support, detailed and personalized reporting, resources and help from the Canva Team
Keen to learn more? Contact us(opens in a new tab or window) to get started.
Our dedicated education and district offerings are FERPA and COPPA compliant, and we are also a signatory of the National Data Privacy Agreement. We are committed to GDPR compliance and offer safe-for-school content.
We’re committed to ensuring students can harness the full potential of Canva while remaining completely safe regarding the content they access in Canva’s library.
Canva uses a multi-layered set of safeguards to ensure the content within our Canva Education platform is safe for school and safe for students. As well as a set of blocked search terms, we also leverage a best-in-class machine learning platform which scans our existing collection of millions of photos and graphics to identify, flag, and remove access to “not safe for school” content for Canva Education users. Our collections are reviewed by human content moderators to ensure compliance with our “not safe for school” definitions.
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Canva provides ongoing strategic support for your entire school or education team, including detailed and personalized reporting, resources, and professional development for teachers, and your school.
Canva integrates with the most popular classroom tools, including Canvas, Google Classroom, Schoology, Classlink, PowerSchool, Infinite Campus, Aeries, Skyward, Global Grid for Learning, and more here(opens in a new tab or window).
K-12 (primary or secondary) teachers, schools, and school systems are eligible for Canva Education(opens in a new tab or window) or Canva for Districts. If you're in higher education,please visit our Canva for Campus page(opens in a new tab or window) to learn more.
