Course Curriculum

Standout Social Media Graphics in Canva: 200 Templates Incl.

10sections
40lectures
3h 35mtotal

What you’ll learn

  • Develop a cohesive brand appearance across multiple social media channels

  • Quickly & easily create graphics that stand out on crowded social feeds

  • Design marketing materials for your brand for use on Pinterest, Facebook, Instagram, Powerpoint, LinkedIn, Email marketing, and more

  • Master all the Canva skills you need to design high conversion graphics for your brand and business both today and in the future

01

Introduction

1 lecture • 3min

  • Welcome & Overview

    Discover how to craft standout social media graphics in Canva using 200 templates, structured by skill from basics to video and animation.

    3:20
02

Branding Basics

8 lectures • 41min

  • Key Elements of a Brand

    Define your brand’s colors, fonts, and overall mood using a simple mood board to quickly design standout Canva graphics, with practical tips for beginners.

    2:06

  • Pop Quiz: Do You Know Which Brand Colors Are the Most Profitable?

    Any color can work for a brand, but consistency and professionalism build recognition and trust, so pick a color, set a deadline, and move forward.

    3:06

  • Create Your Mood Board

    Activity

  • Creating a Mood Board for Brand Inspiration

    Create a mood board with colors and imagery on Pinterest to reflect your brand, then customize templates with consistent fonts and colors to appeal to your ideal client.

    7:53

  • Choosing Brand Colors

    Choose exact brand colors with a free color generator to create, lock, and adjust moodboard-inspired palettes, export color codes for Canva and web, and balance light, mid, and dark tones.

    6:57

  • Finding Fonts

    Explore free fonts from Google Fonts, learn simple font pairing with Font Pair and Fontjoy, and assemble 2–3 branded fonts using Canva and Pinterest-inspired mood boards.

    8:35

  • Sourcing Free Stock Images

    Discover free stock resources for images, videos, and music to elevate Canva designs, with Unsplash, Pexels, Pixabay, Freepik, and licensing considerations.

    6:55

  • Best Paid Stock Sites

    2024 Update: The site that was previously called Social Squares has now rebranded to Elevae Visuals. They have the same wonderful imagery, the company just has a new name. If you do a Google search for Elevae Visuals, it should come up.

    4:03

  • Creating Your Brand Guide

    0:55
03

Social Media & Marketing Templates

9 lectures • 4min

  • Overview of What's Included

    0:53

  • Pro Tip: How to Choose the Perfect Template for Your Brand

    Choose a Canva template by prioritizing layout, content needs, and image rights over images, colors, or fonts. Focus on graphic elements, orientation, and whether it supports your photos or text.

    2:28

  • Modern Minimalist

    Explore modern minimalist design for social media with Canva using 200 included templates to create clean, impactful graphics.

    0:08

  • Wanderlust

    Explore wanderlust themed social media graphics in Canva using a collection of 200 templates to create standout visuals.

    0:08

  • Bright Pop

    Design standout social media graphics in Canva using 200 templates, focusing on bright pop visuals.

    0:08

  • Blue Skies

    Create standout social media graphics in Canva using 200 templates, including blue skies, for versatile visual content.

    0:08

  • Boho Glam

    Create standout social media graphics in Canva with boho glam aesthetics, using 200 templates to customize and optimize your visual content.

    0:08

  • Urban Skies

    Create standout social media graphics using Canva with urban skies themes from a library of 200 templates.

    0:08

  • Great Outdoors

    Create standout social media graphics inspired by the great outdoors using Canva and its 200 templates, showcasing practical template-driven design ideas.

    0:08
04

Canva Setup

4 lectures • 25min

  • Intro to Canva Dashboard

    Take a practical tour of the Canva dashboard, start new designs, organize with folders and projects, manage uploads and shared items, and explore apps, brand kit, and content planner.

    4:28

  • Finding Elements in Canva

    Discover how to find Canva elements, manage free vs pro assets, organize favorites, and use frames to shape images and videos, with filters for cohesive branding.

    11:22

  • Setting Up a Brand Kit

    Learn to set up Canva's brand kit with colors and fonts to save time and ensure consistency; use three fonts and upload fonts, with pro features marked by a crown.

    4:42

  • Finding Templates in Canva

    Explore how Canva templates are organized by size and searchable by keywords or themes, helping you quickly find Facebook posts, Instagram stories, reels, and other formats.

    4:50
05

Canva Design Tutorials: Static Images

5 lectures • 36min

  • Working in Layers

    While the basics of this video are still true, be sure to check out the updated Layers video in Section 7: Canva Updates for 2023.

    11:23

  • Changing Fonts/Adding Font Effects

    learn how to edit text in Canva with separate text boxes for different fonts and sizes, apply font effects, colors, alignment, spacing, and simple layer tricks to create standout graphics.

    11:06

  • Pro Tip: Finding Secret Fonts in Canva

    Discover secret fonts in Canva by exploring the Elements section, using magic recommendations to mix balloon and painted letters for standout titles, with tips to center and evenly space them.

    5:00

  • Importing Images/Video/Music

    Upload your own images, videos, and audio to Canva via uploads, then move items to folders for quick access, and download originals or delete items.

    2:56

  • Creating Screen & Product Mockups

    Learn to create screen and product mockups in Canva using frames with image frames, and explore smart mockups for realistic visuals in social media posts.

    5:42
06

Canva Design Tutorials: Video Creation & Animation

3 lectures • 24min

  • Turn a Static Design Into a Video in Canva

    Turn a static design into an engaging Canva video by applying page, text, and element animations, adjust timing, preview, and export as mp4 for social media.

    6:52

  • How to Create a GIF

    Discover how to create a gif in Canva using video or slide animations and stock footage, trim to under 10 seconds, add text, and export a sound-free social media gif.

    7:03

  • Adding Music/Voice Over

    Learn how to add audio and voice over in Canva, upload and place audio, extend duration by cloning slides, and adjust volumes for voice over and background music.

    9:48
07

Canva Updates for 2023

5 lectures • 25min

  • What's New Wednesday

    Stay current with Canva's latest updates through What's New Wednesday videos, and sign up for the monthly webinar to receive recordings and slides by email.

    1:57

  • Magic Design

    Explore Canva's magic design to quickly generate YouTube banner and other templates by inserting your media, customizing color palettes and styles, and testing vibes to spark ideas without wasted time.

    4:15

  • New and Improved Layers

    Master Canva's new layers and position features to reorder elements, align spacing, and size items with pixel precision, dramatically simplifying design workflows.

    9:17

  • Improved Translation Feature

    Translate your whole document in one go with Canva's translate feature, replacing the old page-by-page method. Use the Canva assistant to select pages, choose languages like French, and adjust spacing.

    2:36

  • Adding Apps & Trying Text to Image with AI

    Explore Canva's apps and try text-to-image AI to generate Instagram post square visuals, using prompts, styles, and editing options within new or existing designs.

    6:53
08

Training Deep Dive: Canva Extended All-In-One Training

1 lecture • 34min

  • Canva Crash Course Video

    Explore how to maximize Canva templates by editing images, swapping placeholders, and managing layered elements, then export as pdf, png, jpeg, or video.

    34:07
09

Bonus Lecture

1 lecture • 1min

  • Bonus Materials

    0:17
10

Huge, New 2025 Updates

3 lectures • 23min

  • 2025 Updates Gamified

    Explore Canva's 2025 updates through the gamification feature, badges, and magic sheets with magic charts, including data sets, pie charts, and tips for clean backgrounds and design efficiency.

    3:10

  • Must See: The New Canva Visual Suite

    Explore Canva’s visual suite and learn to create designs with multi-size pages in one file, including sheets and varied page types, while managing permissions and simplifying asset organization.

    10:33

  • Forget Excel. Canva Now Has Sheets!

    Explore how Canva sheets power bulk create, AI-driven content, and data import to build graphics with customizable charts and multilingual support.

    8:50