Canva 1 Day Training Course

Canva is an easy graphic design for people who aren’t graphic designers.

Canva is used mainly to make social media posts look professional. It has a huge variety of stock images and templates to use. You can publish your designs straight to Facebook, Instagram and Twitter, and create presentations and video.

This one-day course has been designed for beginners to get to grips with Canva, and covers creating a brand kit and publishing or downloading your designs.

Course Overview

Get confident using Canva, the intuitive graphic design platform, to create high-quality marketing materials, presentations, social media graphics, and more.

 

Why take this course?

  • Learn how to navigate Canva with confidence
  • Create engaging visuals for print and digital use
  • Speed up your workflow with templates and brand kits
  • Build skills to support marketing, comms or personal projects

Who is this course for?

This course is perfect for anyone who needs to create eye-catching content but doesn’t have a background in graphic design—whether for work, business, or personal projects.

Duration

1 day

Classroom size

8 approx.

Location

Online or Classroom

Certificate

1 Certification

Experience

Beginner

What you will learn

  • Set up a brand kit in Canva
  • Create designs such as a Facebook post or an Instagram post (both from scratch and using templates)
  • Understand how to download or publish your designs (e.g. to Facebook or Twitter)

How much does it cost?

Option 1

Standard

Standard course rate

£315

per person (+VAT)

Option 2

Public Sector

Discounted rate for public sector organisations, eg. councils

£266

per person (+VAT)

Option 3

Charity

Charities with 31+ staff

£210

per person (+VAT)

Group Training

If you have three or more learners, We can tailor the content to your team, and host the training remotely, at your workplace or here at Happy’s HQ in Aldgate, Central London.

Course Timetable

This course will be taught in the latest version of the software. We can train this in older versions if needed – please get in touch for more information and availability.

Session 1

  • Introduction: 
    • What is Canva?
    • Accessing Canva
    • Canva versions
    • Navigating the home screen.
  • Getting Started (Basics): 
    • Create a design from a template
    • Create a design with custom dimensions
    • The editor – parts of the screen, naming your design, saving in Canva, Undo/Redo, Templates, Contextual Menus, Zooming (Fit & Fill, Full screen)
  • Taking it Further:
    • Photos – stock photos and personal photos
    • Editing your image (basic)
    • The colour picker
    • Using elements (including animated elements)
    • Adding text to a design (including styles)
    • Adding music
    • Using video
    • Uploading your own content (e.g. a logo or image).

Session 2

  • Creating a Brand Kit:
    • Create a colour palette
    • Delete a palette
    • Upload a brand logo and brand fonts (pro version)
  • Publishing Your Design:
    • Send straight to Facebook, Twitter etc
    • Downloading your designs
    • Printing your designs.
  • Page Management:
    • Adding, deleting and copying a page
    • Adding page titles
    • Moving through pages

Session 3

  • File Management in Canva (Using Folders):
    • Create a folder
    • Add files to a folder
    • Rename a folder
    • Share a folder
    • Delete a folder
    • Using stars
  • Create a Presentation:
    • Create either a mobile first or a traditional presentation
    • Using presentation templates
    • Add timings
    • Add notes
    • Animate elements
    • Keyboard shortcuts during presentations
  • Working Collaboratively:
    • Using comments & notes (add/edit/reply/delete etc.)
    • Create a team

Book now

Date Commencing Availability Number of places
19 Jun 2025 9:30 AM - 3:30 PM 6 spaces left
18 Sep 2025 9:30 AM - 3:30 PM 8 spaces left

Please note that your booking is not secured until you checkout. All prices listed in the shopping cart are excluding VAT.

If you are booking at a discounted rate (for example, if you are from a charity), you will see this on the final stage of the shopping cart after you have set up your account or logged in. Discount codes can also be added on this final page.

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Looking for Private Group Training?

If you have three or more learners, a private group training could be cheaper.

We can tailor the content to your team, and host the training remotely, at your workplace or here at Happy’s HQ in Aldgate, Central London.

The Happy guarantee

We want everyone to go away from our courses feeling as though they have learnt useful, practical skills that they can use straight away when they go back to work.

If you don’t feel that your training has been useful or if you are unhappy in any way, please get in touch with our Customer Services team within 30 days of the course.

We will be happy to offer you additional support and training free of charge to help you to gain the skills you need, or if you’d prefer, a full refund.

Why Choose happy?

Because Happiness Works

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Our award-winning training isn’t just theoretical. It’s packed with practical tools you can use straight away.

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Classroom or live online learning available

Both available for public and private dates.

The small print

For Live Online Interactive Learning sessions (webinars)

The course will run remotely for a full day consisting of three 90-minute live online sessions with independent work in between. 

All learners will need to install Zoom on their machines. Full technical requirements are on the Zoom website. Your link will be included in your joining instructions once you have booked your place — if you haven’t received this email then please contact our team.

Learners should log into the session 10 minutes before the start time to ensure that they have downloaded and set up Zoom correctly. The course will start precisely on time and it may not be possible to go back over material missed by late arrivals. Unfortunately you will be asked to leave and attend a different day if you arrive more than 15 minutes late for online sessions, and more than 30 minutes late for classroom sessions.

Please ensure you read our Terms and Conditions before booking for our payment terms and cancellation policy.

For classroom sessions

All public classroom sessions take place at Happy’s HQ in London at Robert Dolan House, 9 Alie Street, London E1 8DE. Please see our Contact Us page for full directions and a PDF map.

The course will run from 10am to 4:45pm (lunch is served 1pm to 1:45pm — we offer a choice of 3 cold bowl dishes). Please be careful to arrive by 9:45am for registration and refreshments. The course will start precisely on time and it may not be possible to go back over material missed by late arrivals. If you arrive over 30 minutes late you may be asked to leave and attend another day.

Please ensure you read our Terms and Conditions before booking for our payment terms and cancellation policy.

FAQs

What if I have a Mac?

If you are a Mac user, please let us know when booking. If the course is held in the classroom at Happy, the training is held on PCs so we recommend that you bring your Macbook with you (we are not able to provide an additional monitor). For online training, please let us know when booking and you can use your Mac as normal. We provide a PDF with shortcuts for Mac users and your trainer will refer to this throughout the training.