Graphic Design Basics for Educators Using Free Software
- Free
- No certificate
- Beginner
- 1 h 12 min
Built for teachers and youth or social workers rather than aspiring professional designers, this course keeps to free tools throughout. After a one-minute introduction, Part 1 gives a grounding in basic graphic design theory and where designers look for inspiration; Part 2, the bulk of the course at just under an hour, teaches the fundamentals of Canva for social-media graphics and of Photopea, a browser-based image editor, and ties them into a workflow that starts from a moodboard and ends with several ready-to-publish designs. The material is 14 video lectures in four sections, about 1 hour 9 minutes, in English with auto-generated captions, last updated in July 2023 by Predict Edumedia.
You need only a desktop or laptop computer and an internet connection; no previous design or artistic skill is assumed. The course is free to enrol in and, as with all free Udemy courses, there is no certificate of completion, no Q&A or instructor messaging, and advertisements may be shown.
What you’ll learn
- Find the sources of inspiration professional designers use
- Recognise and apply basic graphic design theory
- Create social media designs with the fundamentals of Canva
- Follow a workflow from moodboard to several finished designs
- Use the core features of Photopea, a free browser-based image editor
Who it’s for
Educators, youth workers and small-business owners who need presentable posters and social posts without buying software; not a path into professional design tools such as Illustrator.
Syllabus
4 sections as listed on udemy.com.
- Introduction 1 lesson · 2 min
- PART 1 - Basic Graphic Design Theory 3 lessons · 10 min
- PART 2 – Design Workflow in Canva and Photopea 9 lessons · 57 min
- PART 3. Outro 1 lesson · 1 min
Instructor
- Predict Edumedia
Course details
- Includes
- 4 modules · 14 lessons
On udemy.com
Rated 4.2 out of 5 by 182 learners; 5,253 enrolled, as shown on the course page on 21 Sep 2026. These are udemy.com’s own figures, not ours.
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