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Canva — Design without a designer

Focused, fast, and immediately useful.

Duration
2 weeks
Format
3–5 sessions over 1–2 weeks
Track type
Intensive
Open seats
8 across 1 cohort
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About this course

Why students take this

Canva is the secret weapon of every small business marketing team. Two weeks of fast, focused training.

By the end you'll produce professional-looking social posts, presentations, brochures, and ad creatives at scale. Includes Canva Pro tips, brand kits, magic tools, and the workflow that produces a week of content in 90 minutes.

Two-week intensive

  • Canva fundamentals + Pro features worth paying for
  • Brand kits: setting up colors, fonts, logos once
  • Social templates that you reuse all month
  • Presentations + decks that don't look like Canva
  • Magic write, edit, resize — the AI tools that ship now

Outcomes

What you’ll walk away with

Every outcome below is something a graduate can demonstrate on the last day of class — not a vague promise.

  • 01

    Master one focused skill end-to-end

  • 02

    Apply it to your current work the same week

  • 03

    Earn a completion certificate for your CV

Syllabus

How the 2 weeks actually unfold

We move in deliberate phases. Each one builds on the last, so by week 2you’re working on real briefs — not still typing your first hello-world.

  1. W1

    Canva fundamentals

    Brand kit, templates, magic tools.

    You can…
    • Set up a brand kit
    • Use magic edit + resize
  2. W2

    Production at scale

    Social templates, content calendar.

    You can…
    • Produce a week of content in 90 minutes
    • Build a template system

Who this is for

A great fit if you’re…

  • Busy professionals who need one specific skill
  • Anyone testing the waters before a longer track
  • Teams sharpening a single weak spot

Tools you’ll use

The stack you’ll get fluent in

  • Tool varies by topic — see the description

Format: 3–5 sessions over 1–2 weeks. Evening-friendly.

FAQ

Questions students ask before joining

How short is short?+

Most cover 6–12 contact hours total across 1–2 weeks.

Is this self-paced?+

Live, not self-paced. You attend 3–5 sessions and join a small WhatsApp group during.

Are there prerequisites?+

Almost never — these are designed to be picked up from scratch.

Will I get a certificate?+

Yes, completion certificate for every short course.

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Next step

4-minute application. Quote in 24 hours.

Tell us about your background and goals. We’ll send the syllabus, fee plan, and a cohort that fits.

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