My buddies know that Canva is one of my true desert-island digital tools. I’ve long loved the tutorials, the photo editor, the color palette generator, the font combinations matchmaker, and all those lovely images and templates for banners and that staggeringly huge library of graphic elements.

And while I’ve use so many of those millions of graphics to build designs, duh!

I can’t believe I missed the full list of templates.  In fact, I didn’t even realize you could begin on the design templates page, instead of your login homepage.  Luckily, Canva’s, Community Outreach Specialist, Danviel Jae Mendoza Villarte reached out to share that the templates have been around for about two years now.

We’ve put together this resource because our users found it useful.  These are simple, ready-to-use templates within a drag-and-drop, design software that’s completely online and free to use.

Design Community members have contributed their own designs and those designs live in wide range of categories. Find a template you like and click on edit to customize it for your own needs.

So, in addition to all that web graphic goodness, users can now avoid reinventing wheels when they attack making those everyday products we need so desperately in our schools and libraries.

Among many other templates, you will find these:

• Flyers
• Posters
• Résumés (get your kids ready for summer jobs and beyond!)
• Certificates (for those end-of-year awards)
• Infographics  (a wonderful free alternative to the other, more limited freebies)
• Book Covers  (a fun student activity!)
• Presentations (some beautiful alternatives to your tired designs)
• Magazine Covers (an attractive front page to a collaborative project)
• Brochures
• Announcements
• Calendars (for sharing monthly activities)
• Newsletters (for regular library and school communications)
• Planners  (for volunteer schedules)
• Programs (for concerts and poetry slams)
• Reports  (for student and professional projects)
• Tickets  (for school events and raffles)

Note: A new Team feature allows for project collaboration with up to ten participants and design projects may now be easily shared on social media and embedded on websites.  Canva is available as a web tool or as an iPad or an iPhone app.

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