Mastering Presentation and Whiteboard in Canva

1. Introduction: A Sala Maleku. My name is Willi Mu Takin. I am an entrepreneur and have founded several creative based companies. I have done hundreds of design projects and work with dozens of clients around the world. I am also an academic lecturer and corporate consultant in computer graphics disciplines. For more than two decades, I have been teaching graphic design to trade animation, video editing and motion graphics, architectural visualization, digital painting, web design, game development, et cetera. Va is an online application that has forever changed the face of the design industry. Canva has made it possible for anyone to create stunning designs quickly, even if they are not a designer, while still giving professional designers plenty of room to channel their creativity. With Canva, you can create graphic designs for print and digital media, create presentations, edit videos, and add admission, write content, and even build websites. If you want to master Canva quickly from beginner to advance, then this online core of series is the answer. Throughout this course series, you will be guided step by step to master and utilize all of the features of Canva. As for this course alone, this is the fourth in the series and is a continuation of the third course, titled Editing Videos and Adding Animations with Canva. In its course, you will learn different techniques related to presentation and whiteboard projects in Canva, you will learn how to create presentation layouts, how to add nodes to presentation slides, how to deliver presentations using the presenter view and various unique features that can help you spice up your presentation. Next, you will learn how to create tables. Then learn in depth techniques for creating charts. By using Canva to create info graphics, you can make boring data presentations more interesting and attractive. Afterwards, you will learn how to create a whiteboard project in Canva. With this type of project, you have a virtually infinite size whiteboard that you can take advantage of. You can use it to create very large diagrams, can burn boards, mind maps, flow charts, and so on. All of these can be very useful when you need to manage a team. Since this is the fourth course in the series, you will need to take the first, second, and third courses before taking this one. Then, because Va is an online application, you will also need a computer and an Internet connection. Throughout the course, I will be using a PC with Windows Ten operating system. All of the keyboard shortcuts that'll be demonstrating will be off the PC. If you are using a computer, you can still follow the lesson as I will be using Canvas. User interface moves off the time which is consistent across different platforms. The only difference is the keyboard shortcuts. In general, you will need to replace the control key with the command key and the L key with the option key. This course series is perfect if you are a hobbyists who are stolen design from the basics. Also if you are a teacher or a student who needs a free design application, if you run a business, this core series can be very valuable as Canva can help you create marketing materials quickly and easily. If you are a professional designer, you'll find that canvas library and easy to use interface can help you speed up your work considerably. Last but not least, this course can if you are a content creator who wants to take advantage of the leaders AI technology by taking this online course serious in Shaw, you and all your business will be able to use Canva to the full potential. Creating designs of any kind will no longer be a burden for you. Instead, it will be your age over the competition. Don't wait any longer. Take this course now and continue your journey to master in Canva Salamkum. 2. Creating presentations: One type of project that you can create in Canva is a presentation. You can use Canva as a replacement for Microsoft Powerpoint, Google Slides, Apple Keynote, and the like. To start a presentation. Project is basically the same as. So you start other types of projects in Canva. For now, let's see how we can start one from template, select the presentation category, then just choose a template that you like. Make sure it is not a page template, then press the customized dis template button. Generally, templates for presentations have more than one page. However, body fault can will only apply the first page. Perhaps the approach is that the pages of this template act like the master slides in power point for the second slide or page and above. You can either create them from blank or you can fully create them from any of these pages. To create a blank page, you can press this plus button. Then you can insert Design Elements as you wish, or you can replace the whole page design with any of the pages from the template on the left side by clicking and release. Besides having to create a blank page, if you want to create a page from the template, you can just click drag the page you want to use, and release it on top of the plus button. This will create a new page that uses the design from the template page you dragged from here, you can edit the design as usual, for example, you can move this to somewhere else, or perhaps you want to change the text to different words. So on, we have covered how to edit designs in depth before, I don't need to repeat it again in this video. Now, if you want to apply the entire design of this template to your project page by page, you can click this Apply All Pages button. If you already have some existing designs, can go with us for permission, because everything that you have created will be lost and be replaced by the designs from the template pages. For now, let's just click Replace all pages. All the pages in our project are now exactly the same in terms of look and order as the pages in the template on the left. As you may have already realized, the presentation slides are called pages in Canva. I may be using these two terms interchangeably from now on. All right, the way we organize pages inside a presentation project is similar to the way we organize pages on other design projects. You can write pages to rearrange their order, then to delete a page, you can open its contextual menu by pressing this dotted button or by right clicking, and then use the delete page command. Or you can also press the delete key on the keyboard. But remember for the delete key method, you need to make sure that you are selecting the page and not a specific element. If what you select is an element, pressing the delete key, we'll only delete that element again. Select the page first, then press delete. Va does not restrict us to only selecting pages from one template. For example, we can press this back arrow, then you can use the search feature if you want. For now, we will just pick random template from the list. From here, we can create a new page using any of the pages from the current template. For example, by using the click dragging method. All right, In addition to creating a new page after the last page, you can also create a new page between two existing pages. To do that, you need to hover the mouse on a gap between two pages, then press the plus button that appears. If you want to insert a new page from the template, just click Rack the page you want and release it on a gap between two pages. You can see that Canva has just created a new page between these two pages using the design of the template page. In the earlier chapter, we discussed the magic design feature for creating a poster design project. We can also use the magic design feature to create a presentation project. The technique is quite simple, just press the magic design button at the top, on the left panel. If your project already contains various pages, the magic design feature will add the content new pages. For now, to make it easier for us to see the results, let's just use a new empty presentation project. We can go back to the main page, then choose the presentation category, and then choose the preset on far left. Or you can also press the Create a design button at the top. Alternatively, if you are using a desktop app, just press the plus button in the top tape area, then type resin 16 by nine. Presentation preset. Now let's try the magic design feature by pressing this button. What makes the current process different from the previous is that we're not providing any images for the AI. What we're going to use is a prompt. The term prompt in the AI world is basically a textual instruction that we give to the AI system to make it do something on other AI systems. A prompt can also be spoken or in audio form. Just for example, let's type investor representation for a new toy store chain. You can use other prompts if you want. After that, press Enter. The I program will get to work. After the process is done, it will present several designs that we can choose from. Each of these designs is a presentation template. This means that inside each, we can find more pages or slides. If you like the template, just press the Create My Presentation button. This is the result. We have a new presentation project from a template created by AI. You can see that the canvas AI system is not only able to find relevant graphic elements, the text is also neatly structured, made according to the context of the prompt we input earlier. Of course, it is almost impossible for everything to be 100% suitable for our needs. But at least with this template, we have a starting point where we can develop further. One thing that you might want to remember is that sometimes I program in Canva uses paid design elements. When you try to exploit it, Canva will ask you to pay for the element or to upgrade your account. 3. Publishing presentation projects: After creating a presentation project, there are several ways that you can use it. The first is to download it as a PDF file. The second is to utilize Canva as a presentation software. The third is to export it as a video. Last one is to export it to Microsoft Powerpoint. Let's go through each of these methods one by one. You may already know that we can do presentations using only PDF files and an Internet browser. This can be very useful in certain circumstances. For example, when we have to travel far without being able to bring a laptop. So we have to borrow someone else's computer for the presentation session. The way we download a presentation project to a PDF file is no different from any other type of project in Canvas. Just press the Share button, then download. Make sure the file tab is PDF, then press this download button. The downside of PDF files is that you cannot include an emission or video content inside them. Your presentation will just be a collection of static slides, just like reading an ordinary ebook. Usually this is not a big deal because most people do not like an emissions in their presentation slides. Indeed, there are special types of Do files that can contain interactive elements such as animation, video and audio. But you need a Dubiocrobt proof software to be able to do that. For Canva itself, its PDF expot feature does not support content other than texts and images. The second method is to do a live presentation using Canva. This method is the most ideal because it can display all the animations and videos in your presentation. Of course, to take full advantage of this method, you should first add animations and or videos to the project. To save time, we can apply animation page instead of element. To make it even faster, you can select multiple slipes or pages at once. We can click to select the first page, Hold Chef, and then select the last page. With all these pages selected, we can open the animate panel. Just like the animation preset we want to use, I chose one party. You can use the both option. But personally, I'm not a fan of presentations that have an exit animation. I only use the interruption. Now all our slides have animations. Next we want to insert a video for this. I first move this slide so that it is in the second position. Then we open the element step and select the video category. I'll just pick this one, which we have used in the previous chapter. Change the scale and position so that it fits into the rectangle on the left. If you select the video and open the payback panel, we have discussed the function of these two options before. Make sure that the option below is on so that when the slide or page is displayed, the video will run immediately. Then also enable the option above it so that the video will keep running and looping as the presentation progresses. This option is more suitable for videos that function only as background. For videos that contain explanation, You should not repeat them because it may bore the audience. After you are done, you can run a presentation in Canva by pressing the button above. There are actually different ways to present a presentation in Canva, but that will be for another lesson. For now, we will use the button below or its shortcut control out. You need to remember that this button and its shortcut will directly open the active page. If you want the presentation to start from the beginning, make sure you select the first page first. Only then press this button or its shortcut. While the presentation is running, you can press the right error button and left error button below to navigate the pages. Or if you notice when a mouse cursor is on the right side of the screen, it will change to a right arrow symbol. We can click it to move forward to the next slide. If the mouse cursor is on the left side of the screen, it will change to the left arrow symbol. In its condition we can click to go back to the previous slide. If you prefer to use the keyboard, you can use the left and right arrow keys or the page up and pitch down keys to move between pages. If you use a presenter remote or pointer, these tools usually work directly with Canvas without you needing to set them up manually. You can see that this video is running in loop because of the playback option we said earlier. To exit from the presentation mode, you can press this icon again or simply press the escape key on your keyboard. The third method is to export the presentation as a video. This can be useful if you want to upload it to Youtube, or if you want to combine it with other videos using video editing software such as Adobe Premiere or Final Cut, and so on. One important thing you need to pay attention to is the duration per slide or page. Because when its entire presentation is turned into a video, one needs to determine how long each slide will be displayed. By default, each slide will be displayed for 5 seconds, including the on enter and on exit animations If they exist, this value will automatically decrease if you apply a transition effect between slides. Suppose you want to change the duration of each slide to 10 seconds. You do need to select all slides just like one of them. Then click on this clock icon and then type in ten To apply the duration value to all the pages in the project, simply enable the option below. Apply to all pages. Now all pages have the same duration unless the page contains a video. If a page contains a video or videos, then the duration of that page will be as long as the duration of the video or the longest video on that page. Again, if there is no video, then the page duration is currently 10 seconds. Finally, to explode the project as a video, you can press the shared button, then the download option, and then like MP four as the file type, then press the download button. The last method is to export our presentation project to Microsoft Powerpoint. There is no doubt that currently the most commonly used software for representations is Powerpoint. That is why Canva also provides the option to download presentation projects in a Powerpoint format or PPTX. The method is the same as to download other files. The only difference is that you need to select the PPTX option as the file type. You need to remember that although Poor Point itself supports an emission, the emissions we create in Canva are not compatible. They cannot be transferred to por point. So again, all the on enter missions, on exit emissions and also the transition effects between pages that you created earlier will be ignored if you export the presentation to a PPTX file. 4. Notes and Presenter View: In this video, we will discuss the nodes feature as well as the presenter view mode in Canva. The first is the nodes feature. Generally, when viewing a presentation, there are more things that we need to communicate verbally than what is visible on the screen. If we do not have nodes, it is easy to forget them. That is why Canva and other presentation software usually provide a nodes feature. To access it, simply press the notes button below. Keep in mind that the notes feature is tied or linked to the page. This means that each page has its own nodes. I have prepared some texts of the record to save time. Just for example, I entered this text into the notes of the first page, then I use this text for the second page. Finally, I also put some text into the notes on the third page. We will use C notes later when we discuss the next feature. All right, to close the notes panel, you can press the Notes button again to be able to view nodes in a live presentation session. You cannot do so using the regular presentation mode. You need to use a special mode called presenter view. How is presenter view different from the regular mode? In regular presentation mode, the presenter screen is exactly the same as what the audience sees. In presenter view mode, the screen that the presenter sees is different from the screen that the audience sees. But to be able to use presenter view, you must have at least two display devices. The first is a display that can only be seen by you as the presenter. Second is the display that is seen by the audience. This can be a projector TV or a second computer monitor. Just remember, when you set up this second display device, you need to use the expanded view option instead of clone or mirror view option. When you have all the set up, you can use the presenter view mode in the following ways. First, you can press the present full screen button at the bottom, or the shortcut as usual. Then from here, you can press the icon that says Open Presenter View. But let me exit for now by pressing Escape. Alternatively, you can also press the present button above, then activate the presenter view option, then press the present button. If you do either of these, you will enter presenter view mode. As you can see in this mode Canva displays two windows. The most movements we make in one window will be reflected in the other window. You need to drag this window to the second display, or one seen by the audience. Then you need to press the Enter Full Screen mode button again during the presentation. This is the display that the audience will see. This is what you as the presenter will see. The advantage of the presenter view mode is that in addition to being able to read the nodes, we can also freely or randomly jump from one slide to another without having to follow the sequence. This can be very useful, for example, during a question and answer session, where we need to reopen certain pages that are asked by the audience to exit the presenter view mode. The method is the same as exiting the regular presentation mode, which can be done by pressing the cape key on a keyboard. 5. Advanced presentation features: In this video, we will discuss some of the advanced presentation features in Canva. We will cover the present and record mode, Do play mode, Canva life feature, and magic shortcuts. If you press the present button above, you can see two more modes that you haven't discussed yet. The present and record mode allows you to do a presentation while recording your face and voice. For this, you will need a webcam or a camera connected to your computer. Then you will also need a microphone to be able to record your voice. Granted, some webcam products also have microphones, but in general, you will get better of your results if you use a standard recording microphone. I won't be removing the process as I already have a screen recording running. But more or less, this is what the result will look like. The presentation runs with your face inserted in a corner of the screen. When you are done, you can download the recorded video as an MP four file. The last mode is Autoplay. This mode will run the presentation continuously in a loop. This mode is suitable for use at an exhibition, for example, or in front of a shop window and the like. Essentially, in places where we want to attract the attention of many people who are passing by, you need to remember that for this Autoplay mode to work properly, you need to set the duration pro page correctly. So this is similar to when we export a presentation to a video file. When in Autoplay mode, each page will pause for the duration that you specify before moving on to the next page. One very useful feature, especially for doing interactive presentations is Canva Live. You can find this feature in presentation mode by pressing this icon. If you have ever attended Webinar on Youtube for example, or on other platforms, you may have seen a special panel on the side of the main screen where the audience can send questions or comments in form of texts or stickers. Well, that is what the Canva live feature does. To use this feature, just press the Start New Session button. Canva will provide a unique code in a form of six digit number. Attendees who want to ask a question or comment open the official URL, which is Canva Live. They can use a browser on their computer or on their mobile devices and then just enter the code. Just for example, I tried logging in with my phone and type in the common, wow, great presentation. Currently I am commenting as anonymous. You can also set the name if you want. For example, I am now using the name Adam and send the message again. Yeah, cool. As a presenter, you can feature or highlight certain messages to the main screen. You can also delete certain messages if you want. Now, if you are using the presenter view mode, you have the option to hide this command panel from the audience screen. This will make it only visible in the presenter window. One thing you need to remember is that even if you exit the presenter mode, the Canva Life session might still be active. You need to press this button to end session. The last feature, deducting is also interesting to discuss, is Mgic shortcuts. While in a presentation session, sometimes we want to express our emotions or celebrate something or ask for the attention of the audience and so on. That is what the magic shortcuts feature is for. To access it, while in presentation mode, you can press this icon, then just click on the effect you want to activate. But as the name suggests, it would be better if you memorize the shortcuts. For example, you can press the letter B on your keyboard to blur the screen, you can click the command again or press the letter B again to turn off the blurring effect. So most of the commands or short cards are togles. You can press the letter key to ask the audience to be quiet. You can press letter C to display vet effect and so on. Feel free to try these effects yourself. Besides any emissions or visuals, V also actually generates sounds. For these effects, I did not record the sound coming out of the system, so it is not recorded in this video. But you'll be able to hear the sound effects on your own computer. What is unique about these music shortcuts effects is that you can combine them. Let's say you can press the letter U for stage curtain effect. Then press D for a drum roll effect. Then press page down to move to the next page while opening the curtain again. 6. Working with tables: Very often in presentations we have to display a series of data. Canva provides many ways to present data. If the data is not complex or the majority of the data format is text, you can use tables. But if the data is in the form of numbers or you want to show the changes visually, you may want to use charts or Info graphics. In this video, we will focus on the table feature first. To create a table, you can go to the Elements step, then select the tables category by pressing the CO button. There is only one type of table. All the presets you see here are just for initial formatting. Some of them have cells not colored, some have only tap color, and some have all the cells colored. No matter which preset you choose, they can all be edited further to get the look that you want to delete table, you can click on one of the cells, then press the escape key to S the entire table. Then press this trash icon. Or if you strike a cell, pressing the trash icon will give you three options you can let to delete the whole table. Once you have a table, you can input data into it manually by tapping it one by one. But if you already have the data in Microsoft Excel or Google Sheets, for example, it will be faster if you just copy and paste it in. The spreadsheet software, you can select the cells you want to copy, then press control C to copy the data. You may notice that the data I have in Excel has four columns by five rows, while the table in Canva by default has only three columns by four rows. You can select the cell in the upper left corner, then press control V, or you can also right click on the cell. Then, like Paste, as you can see, Canva automatically adds columns and rows according to the dimension of Greta input or Paste. As with other elements in Canva, we can also transform the table object. We can move its location by click, dragging directly on the table area or on its arrow icon To rotate the table, you can direct the circle or arrow icon to perform a uniform scale. You can click drag on the control points at the corners of the table. All the cells in the table will be resized proportionally. Now what you need to be aware of is doing on a uniform scale. Or dragging the control boxes or boundary lines on the sides of the table. Before discussing this type of scaling, we need to first discuss how to make a selection and also the difference. If you click on the cell, you are selecting that cell, you can see that the purple highlight box is on one cell only. To randomly select two or more cells, you can hold control and just click on the cells you want to select, Select cells sequentially. You can select the first cell, then hold shift and then select the other cell. All the cells between the two cells will be selected. You can also do this diagonally, which will select all the cells that form a rectangular area. All right, what you need to pay close attention to now is the difference between the whole cell selection and a table selection. If you click on cell on the top corner, hold shift and click on cell in the bottom corner. This is a whole cell selection, not a table selection. The purple highlight is inside the Sh box. If you press the Cp or click on one of the table boundary lines, now the entire table is selected. The purple highlight is now at the outer area. Again, you need to remember the difference between the whole cell selection condition and the table selection condition because this will affect the result of the non uniform scale technique when only one cell is selected or the entire table is selected, dragging the control boxes at the border will only the nearest column or row. But if you select all these cells and break one side of the table, all these cells will be affected. If you only want to change these two columns, for example, then you need to select all the cells in that column. And then g, the border of the table. As you can see, only the two columns we've selected get resized. Now let's discuss the various techniques to organize the table structure. If we want to insert a new column or a new row, we can right click on the cell. You can choose the column command to add a new column on the right side of the active cell. Or choose a row to add a new row below the active cell to the little column. You can use the right click method as well, then select Column commandlet row. You can use the delete row command. In addition to the right click method, you can also hover your mouse over the column border and then press the plus button that appears to insert a new column. You can also use the same method to add a new row. Sometimes we need to combine two or more cells into one. We can do this by selecting the cells first, then right click and then select the merged cells command to separate them. Again, you can use the unmerged cells command. We can adjust the column width, row height by dragging the table lines. After doing this, we often want to make certain columns or rows uniform in width or height. To do this first, make sure all the cells you want to affect are selected. For example, I want these three columns to be uniform in width to save time. Instead of selecting them all like this, you can just select three cells to represent the columns. Then you can click or click on one of these blot buttons, then select Size columns equally. It is the same for making row hips uniform. The point is you need to fire some cells to represents the rows that you want to edit. Open the contextual menu, then select Size Rows Equally. To change the color of a cell, you need to obstract it first. Then click on a color box button at the top left. Canva automatically detects the colors of existing graphics on previous pages as well as from existing photos in your project. You can choose a color from the standard palette below if you like, or choose a new custom color by pressing this button. For now, I'll just pick this color. The next parameter I want to cover is adjusting the appearance of lines. As usual, you need to first select the cells where the line is located. For example, let's say we want to make the top and bottom lines of rufus row, bolt and also red. We select the cells. Next, press this button. Here we need to specify the type of line we want to set. To set the top and bottom lines, we can activate these two buttons at once, then select the color by pressing this box. Next, you can change the line type to a type if you want. I prefer to use the solid type for now, but I want the lines to be thicker. We can do that by dragging the slider to the right. This is how it looks so far. The last feature I want to discuss is spacing. There are two types of spacing that we can set in Canvas. Table spacing can be used to provide distance between cells. With this option, the cells seem to be separated from one another, with each having boundary lines on its own. The next parameter is cell spacing. Basically, this parameter determines the minimum size of the cell, or rather the minimum distance that we can set between the cell container and content inside it. When a value is at its maximum, which is 20, this is the minimum distance of row and column size that we can set. But if we set this to zero, for example, we can draw lines closer and even the column line becomes even closer. Now if we increase this cell spacing value, again can voltomatically enlarges all cell sizes that are below the allowed threshold. Cells that are already above the allowed size will not be affected. 7. Working with charts: In this video, we will focus on chart. A chart is basically a visual representation of data. Va provides many types of charts. To access them, you can open the Elements tab, then open the Charts category by pressing the CL button. For now, let's create a bar chart type using the click method. There are two things you notice when creating a chart. The first is that the chart element automatically has an animation, even though there is no on enter or exit animation on the element and also no page animation. If you enter the presentation mode, the chart element will appear with its own built in animation. The second thing you may notice is that by default Canva provides dummy data. You can open and close the data by pressing the edit button at the top. Since the data has three columns, A provides three colors that we can edit. Suppose we add random numbers in the next column. Automatically Va creates the fo bar. Now we have four colors that we can set. You can use the column spacing parameter to determine the distance between the data columns. Next, you can use the roundness parameter to set the curfature of the N or tip of the data bar. For these text parameters. We have discussed them before, there is no need to explain them again In this lesson, let's focus on the edit panel again. If you want to start from empty data, you can click on the Clear Data button. Then you can manually enter the data yourself. If you already have the data in Microsoft Cel or in Google Sheets, et cetera, you can transport the data into a CSV file format and then import the file to Canva by pressing this button. Or you can also use the previous method, which is using pen paced commands to save time. I'll just use the same file from the previous lesson. Let's assume that we have just participated in a four days exhibition event. We use this table to record the sales amount of products A, B, and C during the exhibition. If you want to copy everything including row and column captions, make sure everything is selected. Then press control V in Canva. You only need to select the cell in the upper left corner. Then press control V. The chart will immediately change following the new data wigs input. Since the data of the bar chart is basically a table, many of the table layout methods in earlier can be applied to this data. You can right click on a cell. Then from this contextual menu, you can insert a column before or after the active cell. You can insert row before or after reactive cell, or delete an entire column or an entire row. You can also clear the data in the active cell by using the clear selection command, although personally, I prefer to use the delete key on the keyboard instead, as it is faster to perform. As with other elements in Canva, you can also perform transformation on the art element, such as moving it, scaling it, and also rotating it. Then if you open the setting step. In this step we can set whether we want to show or hide the name of the column data, total raw data name. Then you can also swap the rows between a column and row if you want. And less is to control the appearance of the grade lines in case you change your mind. That is if you want to use another type of chart, but still use the same data, you don't need to create it from scratch, just click on the rope down list above and select the type of chart you want to use instead. For example, rope chart, line chart and so on. It will take too much time to go through all of them one by one since they generally work the same. I am sure you can try them out yourself. What I think is more important for us to discuss now are the unique chart types. The first is the progress chart type. Basically, the charts used to represent a progression in percentage values or 0-100% You can find them in the charts category Inside the infographics Charts subcategory, V provides four types of charts that fall under the progress charts category. They are radial, ring, dial, and bar. As you can see, each of these chart elements has a slider. A value range, 0-100 Since they all have the same percentage value range, we can switch from one type to another type of progress charts using the pull down list at the top. You can change the thickness with this slider. This weigh the numbers with this option and determine whether the ends of the chart are curved or not. The next type of chart we want to discuss is the picogram. This chart is useful for illustrating the comparison between two values of the same object. Just for example, every year an estimated 15 billion trees are cut down. While there are only 5 billion new tree seedlings planted. So every year there is a deficit of about 10 billion trees. To illustrate this condition, we can use an icon that symbolizes a tree. Then we can simplify the number of 15 billion to 15. Meanwhile, we can simplify the number of replanted trees to five. Yes, we can also say that for every 15 trees cut down, only five are replanted. All right, you can adjust the distance between the icons using the slider to symbolize the cutting down of trees, use red color. While the number of replanted trees can be symbolized with a green color, you can use the control points in the corners to scale uniformly. However, if you want to set the number of icons per row, you need to use the control boxes on the sides. I think this pictogram will look better if the dimension is five columns by three rows. The downside of canvas pictogram feature, at least when I record this video, is that you cannot use your own icon or a custom icon. You are limited to only picking these icons provided by Canva. The last type of chart I want to discuss is the interactive chart provides two types of interactive charts, a circular type and a square type. Let's try to make a circular one. The main function of the chart type is to create groupings of data. For example, image lecturer teaching an international class. Some students come from Europe, some come from the Middle East, some from Africa, some from Asia, and so on. Then we can subdivide the Europe group into several countries. England, Germany, France, and so on. Then we can input the number of students in the country groups in a third column. As you may notice, the bigger number, the bigger circle size will be relative to the other circles. At this point, I am sure you understand how this chart works. Now the reason why can v Colossus Interactive is because during a presentation, you can click on one of the groups to zoom in into the group area. If you click again on one of the groups inside it, you'll zoom in again and so on. To go back out, you can press the zoom out icon in the bottom right corner. 8. Whiteboard basics: Starting from this video, we will focus on a whiteboard feature in Canva. We touch on whiteboard a bit in first chapter of this course. Essentially, a whiteboard is a type of project in Canva that can simulate the functionality of a real life whiteboard. The advantage of whiteboard in Canva is that it has an unlimited size. Your whiteboard project can be as large as you needed to be. When you are on Canvas main page and you click on Whiteboards category, scroll down, you will find a variety of templates that can give you some ideas of what you can do with a whiteboard project. You can create organizational hierarchies, create mind maps, diagrams, can burn boards, and many others. Although they may seem complex, all of these designs are actually made up of just a few basic elements. If you understand how these basic elements work in shallow, you can create whiteboard design as complex as you want. For that, let's start with a blank whiteboard by clicking on a blank template at the top. Since the whiteboard project has no size limit, the first important thing we need to know is how to navigate inside it. In order to clearly see the changes, we should first create some elements on the canvas. Feel free to add any type of design element from the left panel. I'll just insert this mind map template. All right, to drag or pen the canvas area, there are at least four methods that you can do. The first is by dragging a vertical scroll bar on the right or the horizontal scroll bar on the bottom. The second method is by rotating the scroll wheel. This will move the canvas up or down. If you do this by holding down shift key, the canvas screen, we move to the right or left instead. The third method is to use most often, which is by click bragging, but using the middle mouse button. Commonly you can find the middle most button on the scroll wheel. Instead of rotating it, you press the scroll wheel down and hold it. Then you slide the mouse round. Now if you have a unique mouse that doesn't have a middle button or scroll wheel, you can use the fourth method, which is using the space bar key. But remember this method to work, make sure you are not in a text typing mode. For example, if we create a rectangle shape element, now we are in the text typing mode. We need to press the scape key first or just click outside the shaped area. Once we are free from the text mode, we can press and hold the space bar key on a keyboard until we see the cursor changed into a hem symbol. In this condition, we can click, drag our mouse to pen the canvas around next to zoom in and out, you can use the zoom slider below. A faster method is to hold down the control key and turn or rotate the mouse scroll wheel. Now in case you zoom or Pando canvas too far and you are lost in space, you can press this zoom level button. Then select the feet option. Va will automatically zoom and Pandocvas so that all your design elements are visible or fit on the screen. You can then press this 100% number to see all elements at their default size. Now because the feet and zoom 100% commands are important, you may want to memorize the shortcuts. You can press control out zero for the feet command, press control zero to set a zoom level to 100% All right, as with other design projects in Canva, you can place text elements, graphics and so on into whiteboard. This is probably obvious, we don't need to go over it again. However, there is one unique element in whiteboard project called Sticky Nodes. As the name suggests, you can use this element to make small nodes just like sticky notes in the real world. What makes this element different from a regular rectangle shape is that you can see your username written at the bottom. This is useful when you are collaborating with others with this user name. It is clear who created the sticky node. You can set the color of the sticking element just like any other element by clicking on the color box on the top left. One thing that differentiates whiteboard from other design projects is these grid points. When transforming a design element, it will snap automatically to the nearest grid point location. For example, when we position a sticky node with the click rack method, even when we adjust its position with the arrow keys on the keyboard. The scale process is the same. When we drag one of the points or control boxes, we can easily align it with other elements with the help of these grid points. But the rotation process is a bit different. When rotating elements, they will not snap to the grid points. Okay, next for scaling, you need to remember that dragging the control points on a sticky node will only resize the base. This technique does not change the size of the text inside it. If what you want is to increase or decrease the text size, then you need to double click it first to enter the text editing mode. Then select the text you want to edit. Then use the font size parameter u bar at the top. For fax editing techniques, they are basically similar to what we have discussed before. I'm pretty sure you already understand them. Now we will discuss a unique feature in Canvas code Quick Flow. At this point, you might already notice that there are four plus icons on the top, right, bottom and left of the sticking of element. Also the arrow icons on the sides of the rectangle element. This is a special feature in Canva called Quick Flow. Basically, it enables us to quickly create more elements that are connected to the current element. We can create a new one on the top, right, bottom, or left side of the current one. This quick flow feature will be very useful when we need to create a diagram or other connected graphic structure. As you can see, by using the quick flow feature on a rectangle shape, we will get a line that connects the new rectangle to the old one. We will cover this technique in more depth in the next lesson. For now, if you don't need the quick flow feature, do not want to be bothered with it. You can press the button above to disable it. To enable it. Again, simply right click on an element or click on its dotted button. Then select the Enable Quick Flow option. You should note that not all element types support the quick flow feature. For example, this regular graphic element does not display any quick flow icons even though the quick flow feature is currently enabled. But don't worry, we can still add connecting lines or arrows manually if we want. Since this video is already quite long. We will continue to lesson in the next video. 9. Creating diagrams with shapes and lines: We will continue our discussion on whiteboard projects. Now we will focus on tools and techniques to create diagrams quickly. In the earlier chapters, we discussed how to create various shape elements such as rectangles, circles, and so on. Now we will discuss the advanced techniques to create shape elements. Apart from using the panel on the left, V also provides several shortcuts. You can press letter R on your keyboard to create rectangle shape, then letter C to create a circle shape. Last one is L to create a line. As with the other shortcuts, make sure you are not in text editing mode when using them. In fact, for these three shortcuts to work, you should not have any shaped objects selected. For example, I can press the letter R to create a rectangle. V automatically goes into text typing mode, so you can directly type something inside this rectangle. For example, start to create another shape. Using the shortcut, you need to click on an empty area first until you are not in a text mode, and also no shape element is selected. Now you should also know that Vo will create a new shape in the center of the screen. If we pen the canvas, then press C to create a circle shape. You can see that the location of the new circle shifted away from the rectangle because this is where the center point of the screen is now located. For this shape, we can type the text Brain Storm, just for example. Let's move this shape slightly to the right to create a line. We can press the letter L on the keyboard. If we want to connect these two shapes with the line element, just drag one of the end points when we drag close to an element will play that elements snap points. We can use the snap points on a border or we can attach it to the snap point in the center. We can do the same on the other end point. I attach this to the center snap point as well. When the end points of the line are attached to other elements, no matter where we move the two elements, the line will always adapt and continue to connect the two elements. What is interesting is that if we move the line, the two elements at the ends will also move. Now let's take a look at some of the features and parameters associated with the line element. Just like the rectangle and circle shapes, you can also add text to the line element. The method is the same, just double click on it and then type the text. For example, we can type ideas, You can resize the text if you want. The text on the line element will always follow the position and the rotation of the line. The text direction will automatically be adjusted when we move the line to the opposite direction. If you want to delete the text, just double click on it again and delete the text with the delete key or backspace key. All right, you can change the color of the line by clicking this color box. Then we can change the type or style of the line here and change the thickness with this slider. Next, you can adjust the shape of the two ends. With these two pull down lists, let's assume that we want to start and the end of the line to become arrows. You can see that although the ends of these lines are attached to the center of the rectangle and circle elements, the arrowheads are automatically placed on the boundary of the shapes so that they are always visible. Another thing that I find interesting is this line type. By default, the line type is straight. If you change it to elbow, now the line can turn and create segments and corners along the way. The segments will always be either vertical or horizontal. In this elbow state, there is a new parameter that appears in the menu, where you can set how curved or rounded the corners are. Then in the elbow state, you can pull the segments to an extreme position to make it form a custom path. This can be useful if you want the line not to overlap with other elements on the canvas. To simplify the line, again, you need to pull back the segments so they form a straight line. If there are two straight segments close to each other, canvas will join them back into a single segment. All right. 10. Diagram creation exercise: In this video, we're going to put into practice the various techniques we discussed before for creating diagrams. First, let's create a simple mind map. Imagine that you are in a brainstorming session with your team. You are organizing an event on AI or artificial intelligence. And you need to gather some initial ideas. Press C to create a circle type in the name of the event. For example, AI tech show, I want to change the color of the circle to dark blue. The text should be white. Make the size bigger and also bold. Next, press the Quick Flow icon on the right. Type venue. Click the initial circle. Again, press the Quick flow icon on the right. Again, type time, then click on the icon again. Now type topics. Next we create a new shape on the left side. For this one we can enter the text speakers. Let's create one again on the left side and type in promotions. Lastly, create another one, type participants. From here, if you want to change all the shape to something else, you can click drag on a canvas to create a selection area until all the ships you want to add it are selected. If you want to add more to the selection, you can hold ship and click drag again to create another selection area. Once all the ships are selected, we can click on a Shape button here, you can change the shape type to a different one. Let's say we want to have a capsule shape, so you choose the rectangle with rounded corners to adjust the height of all these ships at once. We can open the pocision panel, then change the height parameter to 50 pixels. We can change all the selecto text to be smaller and also not bold because the previous participants text is too long. The heights of the ships are not uniform. It is better to widen everything to 250 pixels first, then we reset the height to 50 pixels. Next, we can cregg to make a selection and rearrange the position of the ships to make them look better. Next, suppose we want to give a different color for each topic. For example, these two ships are light blue, or maybe the darker one. Click on this one shift and click on this ship. For these two ships, we can choose a green color. For example, as for these last two ships, we can give them an orange color if you want. You can also change the text color to black to make it more readable. If you or your team have a new idea for a particular topic, simply use the quick flow icon on the topic to create the next subtopic or branch. Let's say I enter the text, then next I enter the text building, and so on. That's pretty much how you can create mind maps quickly in Canva. Next, try to create a simple organizational structure. Basically, the technique is similar to creating a mind map as before. The only difference is the direction. Let's say we want to create an organizational structure for the committee of the AI text show event above. We can start with a rectangle shape, so press R on the keyboard type project leader. Feel free to set the text and color however you like. For this example, I use this red color for the shape. I changed the text a little bit to make it look bigger and clearer. Then I want the corners of this box to be slightly rounded. We can open this panel and drag this corner rounding slider to about ten pixels. Then drag the bottom control box while holding out. Next we can start creating lower hierarchy. Underneath, click the quick flow down icon, type logistics, select the ship on top again, then click the down arrow again. Name this one, marketing another one type in the text registration and so on. Now suppose we want to change the appearance of all the connecting lines. We can create a selection area by click blocking sideways, then change the color to this yellow, for example. Now when you create the next level of hierarchy, can vote automatically, uses the text formatting and shapes that we used before. All right. To assign your colleagues as committee members, you can type their names above or below the titles, then change the text to be larger or bold. Alternatively, you can also upload their photos and just click back from the upload panel to the canvas until the photo is attached to the related shape. I use a smiley graphic just for illustration purposes. With these examples, I am sure in shallow you understand the techniques. Remember, you can also combine the shape line and sticking techniques with table to create a canbonboard for example, or include chart video and so on. The point is that by implementing the various techniques will earlier you can create all kinds of diagrams no matter how complicated you want them to be. For more ideas, you can look at various whiteboard templates provided by Canva. 11. Draw and Whiteboard publication: In this video, we will go through the draw feature and then discuss the white board project publication method. You can find the draw feature on left panel. As the name suggests, we can use this feature to draw on the canvas or simply make annotations and highlights. You should note that draw is not a feature specific to the whiteboard project. Other types of projects also support the draw feature. We are discussing it now because most likely we use this feature when working with whiteboard projects. The first tool called Pen, can be used to make thin strokes or things that require precision. The second tool is called marker. We can use it to make thicker strokes, while the left tool, called highlighter, produces the thicker strokes with a semi transparent color. But regardless of the default look provided by Canva, you can fully change the settings of each of these tools. You can press this box to change the color. If you press this button, you can adjust the thickness by choosing one of these three presets. Or you can set it manually. The larger the value, the thicker the stroke size will be. Then you can also adjust the transparency here. The smaller the number, the more transparent strokes will be. All right, we should know that the strokes created by the rotos are not raster but vector. This means that you can still edit it further like a vector graphic. We have already discussed vector graphic editing techniques in the earlier chapters. To be able to edit these strokes, you need to select them first Using this arrow tool. You can see that each stroke mic turns into a sten alone graphic object. You need to be careful because this arrow tool can also select other objects apart from the stroke objects. When a stroke is selected, you can transform it like other elements in Canvas, such as scaling it, moving it, and rotating it. Then you can also change the color, adjust its depth with range commands, or utilize the layer step. You can also control the transparency level. We have covered all these parameters before, so I'm sure you already understand them. One limitation of the draw stroke elements is that you cannot erase only part of it. If we activate the eraser tool and try to erase just the tape or part of the stroke, the entire object will disappear. Instead, you also need to be careful with this tool because if you accidentally touch another element such as a line for example, it will also get erased. One final tape on using the draw feature is that you need to be in the selection mode or this arrow tool, to be able to navigate the canvas using the middle Mo button and Spacebar techniques. If one of these drawing tools is active, there are only two navigation methods that you can use. Which are using the most scroll wheel and using the scroll bars again. In this condition, you cannot use the switch bar method and the middle most button method. Hopefully, this condition will get better in the Canva version you are using. That is, so you can use the draw feature in Canvas. For now, I don't actually need them, so I just remove them all. Generally, you don't need to publish whiteboard projects out of Canva. Instead, you want to bring people in or invite others into Canva to collaborate online if you want to publish it anyway. There are a few ways that you can do that. You can make it available online. You can specify how far people are able to interact with your whiteboard, then share the link, or you can download it as an image or a PDF file. What you cannot do with whiteboard projects is download them as MP four, videos and Fs. Now there is one publishing feature in Canva that we haven't discussed before which is download selection. This is not a whiteboard specific feature, but you will most likely need it when working with whiteboard projects as they can be quite large. For example, let's say you only want to download this mind map diagram without including the others. You can first create a selection box until all the elements you want to export are selected, then press this dotted button, Download Selection. Canva will take us to the download panel similar to before, but if you notice above it says Download selection. And also what is visible in the preview box is only the mindmap diagram, nothing else. You can change the format to GP or PDF. If you want, then press this download button to download it. 12. The next step: Congratulations, you have completed this course from start to finish. You have flown a lot. So far as you already know, this course is the fourth in series. From the first course to this one, you know that we have covered all the features of that exist across the different levels, free and paid. What we haven't covered yet are the features that only exist on paid tiers. You can learn about them in less course in the series and team features, AI collaboration and Rending. As you can see from the title, this course focuses on three main topics. Ai or artificial intelligence, collaboration through the team, features and features related to branding. Please note that all of these features are paid features of Canva. If you are discouraged from participating due to the paid account requirement, don't worry. Canva offers a free trial for each of their paid plans. You'll get 30 days to use all the paid features, which is more than enough time for you to finish the course. You can search for the course yourself, a skill share, or just use this link I provided on the screen. I hope this course series can have a positive impact on your life and career.