Canva

Here's a Beginner's Guide to help you get started.

You can learn more in their Design School.

TCU has 5 distinct Canva teams to which users are assigned depending upon their role and status.  Collaboration and design sharing can only take place with other Canva users within your assigned team.

• TCU Students
• TCU Main Campus Faculty/Staff
• TCU Collaboration Faculty/Staff-Students
• TCU Burnett School of Medicine
• TCU Neeley School of Business

The TCU Collaboration team is the recommended space to host any designs that will involve collaboration between employees and students. To request invitation to another team or for more information, please contact the IT Help Desk for assistance. 

TCU IT recommends checking first with others in your area before creating a group since one may already exist.

Canva users may create groups to provide more flexibility when collaborating. By sharing designs with a group rather than just individual users, designs can become immediately accessible when new users are invited to the group. Similarly, access to designs shared with a group is taken away when a user is removed from the group. For information about creating groups and sharing designs with a group, see Canva’s page about group creation.

TCU IT recommends that both the employee and the student(s) use the TCU Collaboration team within Canva to host designs. To request invitation to the Collaboration team, please submit an IT Help Desk ticket. Students are not allowed to be added to employee-only teams.

If you are an employee and want to collaborate with a student, student worker, or graduate assistant, make sure that you first create the design for them to use. Then share the design with the student. This way, you will retain control over the design after the student graduates.

Alumni

When you graduate from TCU, access to Canva will remain active until your graduation date.

You may create a personal Canva account using a non-TCU email address and share designs with that account before your access period ends on your graduation date. Please note that you will need to make a copy of the designs from your non-TCU Canva account after sharing.

TCU is not responsible for data lost after a TCU account has expired.

Former Students

If you leave TCU but do not graduate, access to Canva will remain temporarily active until your access period ends. This typically occurs after the 12^th day of the next semester when you have not enrolled in classes by that point.

If you are leaving TCU, even temporarily, you may create a personal Canva account using a non-TCU email address and copy content to that account before your access period ends. Please note that you will need to make a copy of the designs from your non-TCU Canva account after sharing.

TCU is not responsible for data lost after a TCU account has expired.

Employees

Canva access ends when your employment ends (i.e., your termination date), and shared collaborations will no longer be visible to others.

If you’re an adjunct teaching intermittently, you may create a personal Canva account using a non-TCU email address and share designs to that account to avoid losing data. Please note that you will need to make a copy of the designs from your non-TCU Canva account after sharing.

If you are leaving TCU permanently, it’s essential to share any designs that needs to remain accessible to other TCU users and ask them to make a copy. Sharing designs with edit access does not allow designs to remain visible after your access period ends.

If you are an employees who is also an alum of TCU, while you will retain your credentials to still access your email, your Canva access will end upon your termination date.

TCU is not responsible for data lost after a TCU account has expired.

If a colleague or student is leaving TCU permanently, it’s essential to request that they share designs that needs to remain accessible with another TCU user who must then make a copy of the designs. Sharing designs with edit access does not allow designs to remain visible after access ends

Encourage colleagues to work with their supervisor to ensure all relevant files are transferred before their final day of employment.

For step-by-step instructions about how to share and copy designs between accounts, visit Canva’s design transfer page.