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CANVA Visual Communication Design for Business Content
Using Canva for Corporate Communications
Level of course:
Beginner-Intermediate
Delivery:
In-Person Learning
Duration:
/ 2 days
Upcoming Course Schedule:
26-27 May 2025
2-3 Oct 2025
Course Overview
Learn to create impactful visuals for corporate communication with Canva. This course teaches essential design skills to elevate your brand and engage your audience.
Join our Canva Visual Communication course and discover the simplicity and power of designing with Canva at a professional level. This two-day course is perfect for professionals who are new to design or those looking to streamline their existing design processes using Canva’s robust features.
Explore the comprehensive features of Canva that make it a powerful tool for enhancing workplace communication. You'll learn how to navigate Canva efficiently, apply design principles for professional and effective designs, and explore generative AI Canva features to make your visual communication tasks easier and more impactful.
You'll learn:
- Effective Visual Communication: Understand how to use visual elements to make internal presentations, EDM, newsletters, reports, and external communications more engaging.
- Harness the power of Generative AI: Explore the various AI tools available on Canva’s Magic Studio to kickstart your creative designing process.
- Collaboration and Productivity: Utilize Canva’s collaboration tools to streamline design processes, enhance team cooperation, and maintain consistency in all corporate communications.
- Social Media and Print Designs: Learn to quickly create professional-looking designs for social media and print, even without a background in design.
Important Notice:This hands-on course will utilize Canva Pro, with all materials and laptops provided for a seamless learning experience.
Who is this course for?
Professionals from all backgrounds enhance their visual communication skills. From Marketing, a business owner, a project manager, or any other role, this course will teach you how to create impactful visuals for your business needs.
Key Takeaways
Course Pre-requisites :
None
Topics
Here's what you get to
learn in this course
Topic 1
Discover how Canva empowers non-designers to create stunning visuals with ease and confidence. You will learn how you can quickly create professional-quality designs for your business or personal projects.
- Why use Canva?
- Exploring the interface of Canva
- Using the basic tools of Canva to create designs from scratch
Topic 2
Ditch the blank canvas and unlock the power of Canva's vast template library. This module will guide you through to find professionally designed templates tailored for every need – from social media graphics and presentations to marketing materials and beyond.
- Finding suitable templates for your design
- Customising ready-made templates to make it your own
- Using AI Magic Design to generate designs
Topic 3
Dive into Canva's vast library of graphic elements and discover the endless possibilities for creating stunning visuals. This module will teach you how to find, customize, and combine different elements to elevate your designs and make them truly unique.
- Creating lines & shapes
- Using the filter to find suitable graphics
- Using picture frames & grids
Topic 4
Transform ordinary images into extraordinary visuals that capture attention and tell your story. This module will teach you how to harness Canva's powerful photo editing tools to enhance, manipulate, and optimize your images for maximum impact.
- How to upload your own photos
- Setting background image
- Using AI Magic Studio tools for photo editing
Topic 5
Transform ordinary text into eye-catching visuals that communicate your message clearly and effectively. In this module, you'll unlock the full potential of Canva's typography and formatting tools to create stunning designs that captivate your audience.
- Generating text with AI Magic Write
- Formatting Type (Fonts, Colour, Size)
- Adding Bullet & Numbered Points
- Additional Text Effects
- Alignment of objects
- Copy Style
- Tranparency
- Hyperlinking objects
- Duplicating objects
Topic 6
Transform static designs into captivating videos and animations that grab attention and leave a lasting impact. This module will demystify Canva's video and animation tools, empowering you to create engaging content that tells your story and connects with your audience.
- How to upload your videos
- Trimming & Cropping your video with AI
- Adding and cleaning up audio with AI
- Animating objects
- Adding transitions
- Generating text with AI Magic Write
- Formatting Type (Fonts, Colour, Size)
- Adding Bullet & Numbered Points
- Additional Text Effects
- Alignment of objects
- Copy Style
- Transparency
- Hyperlinking objects
- Duplicating objects
Topic 7
Learn how to export your Canva creations in the perfect format for every purpose. This module will guide you through the various output options, so you can confidently share your visuals online, in print, or in presentations.
- Downloading your design for web or print
- Publishing to other platforms
Topic 1
Go beyond basic tools and learn the visual design principles to leverage Canva's capabilities to create visually stunning, professional-grade designs that communicate your message effectively and leave a lasting impression.
- Colours
- Typography
- Layout Techniques
Topic 2
Unlock the full potential of Canva for Teams and empower your organization to create a cohesive and impactful brand presence and maintain brand consistency across all your visuals.
- Set up Canva for Teams and manage admin permissions
- Set up a Brand Kit for consistent branding across teams
- Working collaboratively on Canva
Topic 3
Learn to visually articulate the company’s message across various platforms effectively, ensuring that all internal communications are not only informative but also visually compelling and on-brand.
- Design considerations for digital vs print
- Setting up grids and guides
- Colour Profile (RGB vs CMYK)
- Best practices for the layout and visual organization for effective internal newsletters, EDMs, and social media posts
- Creating corporate branded templates and adapting designs for different corporate communications
- Exploring Canva partner apps to enhance workflow
Instructor
Know your course instructor
Liyana Ahmad
Liyana is a graphic designer turned trainer whose mission is to help non-designers learn design in a friendly and relatable manner, through the use of easy, accessible design platforms like Canva. She is an ACTA certified trainer, Adobe Certified Professional in Graphic Design & Illustration Using Adobe Illustrator, and an Adobe Certified Instructor in Creative Cloud Design & Layout Solutions. She is also the only official Canva ambassador in Singapore.
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Funding & Subsidy
* Participant need to meet the attendance and assessment requirements to be eligible for the funding.
| For Singapore Citizens & PR (below 40yrs old) |
For Singapore Citizens (40yrs old and above) |
|
|---|---|---|
| Course Fees | 850 | 850 |
| Funding Support | 425 | 595 |
| Total Fee payable | 425 | 255 |
Assessments
As part of the requirement for SkillsFuture Singapore, there will be an assessment conducted at the end of the course.
Participants are required to attain a minimum of 75% attendance and pass the assessment to receive a digital Certificate of Completion issued by Impress Training along with a WSQ Statement of Attainment.
SkillsFuture Credit
Eligible Singapore Citizens may use their SkillsFuture Credit balance to offset respective course fees. This is only applicable to Self-sponsored Individuals.
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The course was very interesting and Trainer was engaging and helpful.
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Manager, Supreme Court
Very engaging Trainer and knowledgeable in this field, Training was well-structured and many useful tips shared.
Abigail Lee
Marketing Executive, ST Telemedia Global Data Centres Pte Ltd
Well designed course and had great takeaways and backed by research.
Nigel Goh
Manager, Sembcorp Industries
Mind-blowing professional training course that helped my team with techniques to structure/plan a good presentations before diving into it.
Valerie Lee
Head, Corporate Development, Sembcorp Industries Ltd
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Deputy Manager, Temasek Polytechnic
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Research Director, IDC Asia Pacific
This course is a MUST for any professionals who does presentations, whatever the frequency maybe. Overall lots of knowledge gained & this would be very relevant and beneficial to my career.
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