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Description

Canva for Beginners: Creating Visuals, Structuring Your Brand and Publishing

Produce clean and consistent visuals yourself with no prior graphic design skills

  • 1 day — 7 h
  • In-person or virtual
  • Foundation
  • Up to 6 participants

In many organisations, communication visuals are produced under time pressure by people for whom design is not their core role: distorted posters, unreadable text, colours that change from one document to the next, and formats unsuited to the publishing channel. The result costs time and blurs the organisation's image.

This one-day programme lays the foundations of Canva: navigating the interface, selecting and customising templates, basic layout rules, saving brand assets and exporting in the right formats. Each participant leaves with several finished visuals.

Learning objectives

  • Navigate the Canva workspace and organise projects and folders
  • Customise a template without degrading its layout
  • Apply readability hierarchy and alignment rules to a visual
  • Save the organisation's colours fonts and logos for reuse
  • Export a visual in the format suited to its publishing channel

What makes this programme different

Each participant leaves with a poster a social media post and a document in their organisation's colours
The visuals produced are projected and reviewed collectively against readability criteria
A quick-reference sheet of export formats by channel is built during the day

Programme

1Getting Started with Canva

Settling into the tool

  • Workspace projects and folders
  • Choosing the starting format and its impact on the visual
  • Searching for and selecting a relevant template
  • Libraries of elements photos and fonts and their terms of use
  • Automatic saving versions and sharing a project

2Composing a Readable Visual

Applying a few simple rules

  • Information hierarchy and placement of the key message
  • Alignment margins and white space
  • Font pairing and minimum readable size
  • Colour choices and contrast between text and background
  • Cropping images and managing quality

3Brand Identity and Publishing

Producing the same thing twice

  • Saving the organisation's colours fonts and logos
  • Creating a reusable template for recurring documents
  • Adapting a visual to several formats
  • Export formats according to use screen print or social media
  • Sharing and collaborating with colleagues

Who is it for

Administrative support staff, junior communication officers, non-profit managers, retailers and anyone required to produce visuals.

Prerequisites

Ability to use an internet browser and handle files on a computer.

Dates & locations

36 scheduled dates between November 2026 and December 2027. Seats are confirmed in the order enquiries are received.

November 2026

December 2026

January 2027

February 2027

March 2027

April 2027

May 2027

June 2027

September 2027

October 2027

November 2027

December 2027

None of these dates suit you? We open additional sessions on request, and any programme can be run privately for your team.

Practical details

Before the programme
Online positioning questionnaire. Your development objectives are shared with the trainer, who tailors the practical case studies to your context.
Teaching methods
Theoretical input, workshops and practical case studies. Digital course materials and method sheets provided.
Assessment
Multiple-choice tests and role-play exercises. Assessment of learning at the start and end of the programme, with immediate and 60-day follow-up evaluations.
After the programme
One year of access to the e-learning platform. Self-assessment of the skills acquired and a 30-day follow-up session with your trainer.
How to register
Registration online or on the basis of a quotation.
Lead time
11 working days after confirmation of registration.
Accessibility
Accessible to people of determination. Contact our accessibility coordinator to design a suitable solution: contact@mpf-academy.ae
Start dates
Rolling intake: in addition to the scheduled sessions, this programme can start on request.