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Canva Help Guide

This LibGuide contains step-by-step instructions for select instructional design tools that faculty and staff can use to develop instructional content and media. We strive to keep these up to date. If you see anything missing or wish us to include a tool

A Few Words on Designing an Infographic

Why Design an Infographic?

Combining visual elements and text will aid in processing information in working memory.

Review and Your Information 

What are your infographic's key points, and what do you want the student to retain? Use design elements like lines, icons, color, font style, etc., to help highlight the key points.

Start with a Template or Wireframe

A wireframe is similar to a template. It is an outline or structure of your infographic. Canva contains many useful templates that can be manipulated and edited. A template will provide you with a structure where you can quickly start designing an infographic. 

Carefully Organize Your Infographic

An infographic should not only display information or data, but it needs to grab the learners attention and visually lead them through your information. Have a beginning, center, and ending of an infographic, and use “A-ha” moments to grab the learner’s attention. 

Data and Information Should Stand Out

If you wanted vto just simply chart or graph information and present it to students then you would use Excel. The designer should use an infographic to lead the learner thought a story about the data. Data or information should be a part of that story, but it should be visually appealing. 

Tip! Ask yourself how can this information be visualized. Or, what is the best way to represent this information visually? 

Infographic Breakdown

This is a diagram of an infographic

Building an Infographic

Step 1

On Canva Home Page, click on Templates on the left sidebar.

 

Step 2​​​​​

Scroll down the page until you see Infographics. Click See All to view every infographic template.

 

Step 3

Find Inspiration by Clicking on the template creator’s name to view their other works. Click Customize this template and the design will open in a new tab for you to edit.

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Step 4

Use the left sidebar to add elements to the infographic template. Click and drag any element onto the Work Area. Every element will have preferences that you can adjust.\

 

Selecting Elements in Your Design

Use the slider and magnification percentage to zoom in or out. Click once on any element to select it.

 

Editing Text in a Textbox

Click twice to select all the text in a textbox Click three times to place a cursor in the textbox.

 

Adding an Additional Page

Click + Add page to start another infographic in the same project.


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