Target Audience
This workshop is suitable for learners who have completed a Canva beginner-level course or who already use Canva regularly and wish to advance their skills.
Workshop Content
This workshop provides an in-depth exploration of Canva’s intermediate and advanced features, focusing on branding, content planning, and professional design workflows. Participants will develop practical skills in maintaining brand consistency, applying colour and typography principles, creating engaging video and presentation content, and producing documents at scale using bulk design tools. The course also introduces accessibility features to ensure designs are inclusive and user-friendly. Throughout the training, learners will leverage Canva’s AI tools to streamline content creation and enhance creativity, equipping them with the skills needed to produce high-quality designs across multiple platforms is a free-to-use online graphic design tool. Use it to create social media posts, presentations, posters, videos, logos and more.
Topics covered during the workshop include:
- Canva Branding Kit
- Canva Colour Wheel
- Canva Content Planner
- Linking Canva account to social media accounts
- Typography and Text Apps
- Creating and Editing Videos
- Creating Presentation
- Document Design
- Creating Emails/Newsletters
- Bulk Create Design
- Canva Translate
- Accessibility Features
- Canva AI Tools
- Canva AI 2.0 (or newest version)
- Magic Write
- Magic Studio
- Magic Media
Methodology
Delivered virtually via Zoom.
Target Audience
Anyone seeking practical tips for using AI with Excel files.
Outline
In this short course the following will be covered:
- Overview of using AI with your Excel file
- Analysing data
- Explaining formulas
- Creating formulas to do something
- Guidelines on writing the prompts to help do this including how to save the prompts to use again
Methodology
- Delivered virtually via Zoom.
- GiraffePad will be the platform used to hold the Zoom link/training materials/recording.
Target Audience
For current or aspiring leaders and managers in not-for-profit organisations e.g. Board officers, CEOs/Managers, team leaders, project managers.
Outline
Section 1: The strategic environment for high performance
· Setting clear vision and objectives for the organisation
· Effective leadership and team development and management
Section 2: Managing performance
· Understanding performance management
· Being clear on what and who we are measuring
· Setting and agreeing performance indicators
· Monitoring performance
Section 3: Communications and conversations
· Dealing with motivation
· What makes for good communications
· How to plan and manage for performance improvement
· Structuring the performance conversation
· Giving feedback
Methodology
Delivered virtually via Zoom.
Target Audience
Individuals or organisations interested/involved in setting up and running a small non-profit organisation, or supporting others doing the same.
Outline
This online course will be delivered over 2 weekly Zoom sessions as per the details below. For privacy reasons, these sessions will not be recorded, so please make sure to attend both sessions if possible.
Module 1: (Tues 24 November, 10am – 1pm)
Establishment of a Group
- Setting up a community group
- Deciding on the Legal Structure
- Writing Your Constitution
- Recruiting Volunteers
Running of the Group
- Committee Roles
- Running a Meeting
- Agendas/Minutes
Module 2: (Tues 1 December, 10am – 1pm)
Making Decisions
- Conflict of Interest
- Code of Conduct
- Communication with members of group
Legal Duties
- Regulatory Responsibilities
- Charity/Tax & Bank Accounts
- Succession Planning
Methodology
Delivered virtually via Zoom.