Canva Advanced (Full Online)

Step into your creative authority and transform Canva into a powerful professional design tool. This advanced course is built for confident Canva users who are ready to move beyond basic layouts and create high-impact, brand-ready designs with speed, precision, and purpose.

You’ll gain deeper control over design elements, layouts, and visual hierarchy while learning how to work smarter through automation, data-driven visuals, and AI-powered tools. From polished print materials and scroll-stopping social content to dynamic presentations and videos, this course empowers you to design with clarity, consistency, and confidence.

Through guided demonstrations and a hands-on project, you’ll apply advanced techniques to real-world outputs relevant to your role—whether in marketing, training, content creation, or corporate communications—ensuring every design you create is intentional, professional, and scalable.

Topics Covered

• Advanced Design Elements
  • Creating and customizing shapes
  • Applying gradients and border styles
  • Connecting and combining design elements for complex layouts
• Advanced Design & Layout Control
  • Creating custom documents
  • Using rulers, grids, margins, and bleed
  • Working with layers and grouping
  • Resizing designs for multiple platforms
  • Using dynamic and responsive text
• Data Visualization
  • Designing tables, charts, and graphs
  • Importing data from third-party spreadsheets
  • Customizing data-driven visuals for clarity and impact
• Magic Studio & AI Tools
  • Background Remover*
  • Magic Erase*
  • Magic Write
    (*Pro features with available workarounds)
• Advanced Video Creation & Animation
  • Editing video and audio within Canva
  • Synchronizing visuals to music beats*
  • Timing and refining element animations
• Custom Templates & Brand Systems
  • Setting up brand kits (logos, colors, and fonts)
  • Creating reusable brand templates
  • Organizing and linking project folders to templates
• Bulk Creation & Automation
  • Using the Apps panel
  • Bulk design creation for social media and corporate use
  • Importing and syncing data from Google Sheets
• Hands-On Capstone Activity
  • Create one professional design output such as:
    • Event poster for print
    • Social media post or vertical video
    • Branded presentation with multiple layout templates
  • Apply advanced elements, text styles, imagery, and placeholders using prescribed formats

Who This Course Is For

This course is ideal for professionals, students, content creators, and business owners who already use Canva and are ready to design with greater confidence, efficiency, and brand alignment. An active Canva Pro subscription or trial is recommended to fully maximize the advanced tools explored in this course.

Method of teaching

This course provides live instructor-led demonstration and discussions, student engagement and hands on exercises using Zoom, Google Classroom and Canva. When necessary, students will complete exercises after-class to be submitted before the next one.

Prerequisite | Requirements:

Students can use a computer, laptop, or tablet (iPad or Android) for this class. No prior experience with Canva is required, but basic computer skills are necessary. This class will utilize Zoom. Stable internet connection is recommended.

Benefits

1. Includes e-certificate of completion
2. Lifetime Free Refresher  (You may attend again the same course,  free of charge, on a space-available basis.)
3. Alumni discount