- Canva Education Now Free Nationwide for all DepEd teachers, students, and employees with valid DepEd email accounts, following an MoU signed in October 2024.
- Empowering Classrooms: Provides thousands of templates, live collaboration, and integration with Google Classroom and Microsoft Teams, enhancing visual communication and digital skills.
- Milestone & Mission: Part of Canva’s global reach of 100M+ monthly education users, aimed at democratizing design and advancing digital inclusion in the Philippines.
Canva, the global all-in-one visual communication platform, today released that Canva Education is now accessible to all DepEd teachers, students, and employees with a valid DepEd email account. This development comes after Canva achieved its recent milestone globally of having more than 100 million teachers and students create on the platform each month.
With a Memorandum of Understanding signed with the Department of Education in October of 2024, Canva Education has already empowered thousands of public school teachers throughout the Philippines to design engaging learning materials and develop visual communication capabilities among students.
With today's national launch, all K-12 teachers and students across the country can now use Canva Education free of charge and just in time for the start of the new school year introducing powerful, creative capabilities into classrooms when they're needed most.
"Canva's mission has always been to democratize design and allow everyone to communicate ideas visually", said Maisie Littaua, Country Manager of Canva Philippines. “We want to plant seeds early and ensure we’re impacting young lives from the classroom up. Visual communication is quickly becoming a critical skill for the future workforce. With this full rollout, we’re equipping Filipino educators and learners with powerful tools to make learning more engaging, collaborative, and effective while preparing them for the world ahead”.
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Canva Education provides a gateway to thousands of education-focused templates, live classroom collaboration solutions, content planning functionality, and effortless integration with services such as Google Classroom and Microsoft Teams. It's also designed with safety and accessibility as central principles, providing a secure, appropriate-for-age online space for all participants.
“This initiative marks a key step in Canva’s broader commitment to advancing education and digital inclusion across Southeast Asia. By starting with the Philippines, we’re taking a meaningful step toward equipping the next generation with intuitive, inclusive, and accessible visual communication tools,” said Yani Hornilla-Donato, Regional Lead for Southeast Asia at Canva.
"Filipino educators have long been their own kind of heroes. Give them Canva, and now they have superpowers. Thank you, Canva, for outfitting our educators and learners across the country with top-notch tools. This is the kind of innovation the Marcos government applauds: technology that empowers, tools that elevate, and education that equips our people for the future", Education Secretary Sonny Angara said.
