Final-year students
Placement season is close and your resume still has no project on it.
Finish with three pieces of work you can demo in an interview.
AI Agents
Canva AI Mastery — Design, Documents and Video Without a Design Team
Produce finished design work for real purposes — a portfolio, a presentation, a social post set, a personal brand — using AI for the drafts and your own judgement for the final call.
- 4 weeksEstimated time
- 4Modules
- 15Lessons
- 3Projects
- YesCertificate
- FreePrice
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Who this course is for
Three people take this course. The work is the same; the reason is different.
Fresh graduates
You have the degree, but the job ads ask for proof of skill.
Build a portfolio before the next hiring round, not after it.
Career switchers
You are experienced elsewhere, new to this field, and starting from zero.
Learn the vocabulary and ship one published project that proves the switch.
Proof, not notes
What you will build
Every module ends in something finished. These are the pieces you leave with.
Build a portfolio where every
item shares the same two colours, the same heading font and the same layout logic: a cover, three project pages and a contact page.
Skills used AI Agents · CANVA
Portfolio project
A presentation deck for
real project, exported and presentable
Skills used AI Agents · CANVA
Portfolio project
A month of social posts
from one template and one headline list
Skills used AI Agents · CANVA
Portfolio project
The brief
Your final project
A month of social posts
from one template and one headline list
- Write down, in one sentence, what the finished thing does and who it is for.
- Build it with the tools this course taught. A borrowed project cannot be explained in an interview.
- Run it from a clean start on another machine, and fix whatever breaks.
- Publish it, and put the link at the top of your resume's project section.
What changes
What you will be able to do
Not definitions to recite — tasks you can open a laptop and complete.
Roles this supports Design and content roles in small businesses · Social media and marketing executive roles · Any fresher role where you have to present your own work
- Build a brand kit so every design shares two colours and two fonts
- Resize one design into every format and fix what breaks in each
- Turn a written report into a draft deck you then correct
- Remove a background, clean up a photo and export it at the right size
- Write headlines that keep every number and invent nothing
- Ship a portfolio that reads as one body of work
The syllabus
Course curriculum
4 modules · 15 lessons. Open a module to see its outcome and lesson titles.
Module 1 Foundations — what Canva is Meet the tool, get an account, and learn the screen before you learn the prompting.
- 01 Meet Canva — what it is and who makes it Free preview
- 02 Signing in: what is free, what is paid, and what you actually need
- 03 The screen: where every control lives
Deliverable 3 practice tasks, one per lesson
Module 2 Prompting — getting a real answer How Canva reads text, the four-part prompt, your own work, and what to do when the answer is wrong.
- 04 How Canva reads what you type
- 05 The four-part prompt: role, task, context, format
- 06 Canva for the work you actually have
- 07 When the answer is wrong: iterate instead of restarting
Deliverable 4 practice tasks, one per lesson
Module 3 Files, tools and your own data Documents and tables, One canvas, every format, brand kits and the document-to-deck tool, the API, and one boring task automated.
- 08 Files, tables and long documents
- 09 One canvas, every format, brand kits and the document-to-deck tool — Canva's own feature
- 10 Reusing one design across formats and your first script
- 11 Automate one boring task with Canva
Deliverable 4 practice tasks, one per lesson
Module 4 Career, projects and honesty A finished portfolio project, the privacy rules, the limits, and the Canva certification paths.
- 12 Build the portfolio project: a portfolio built as one branded set
- 13 Ethics, privacy and what never to paste
- 14 Limits, hallucinations and how to check
- 15 Get certified: the official Canva paths
Deliverable 4 practice tasks, one per lesson
Lesson explanations, worked examples and practice tasks are in the learning player, not on this page — so you can read the syllabus without scrolling through the whole course.
How the course works
Every lesson follows the same four steps. No passive video playlists.
- 1
Learn the concept
A short explanation in plain English, with the one idea the lesson depends on.
- 2
See a worked example
The same task done end to end, with the reasoning behind each step.
- 3
Complete the practice task
You write it yourself. The task is the lesson; the reading is only the setup.
- 4
Build and publish a project
Each module ends in work you can open, explain and attach to an application.
Way2Fresher Academy
Courses written for the fresher hiring market — not translated from a bootcamp built for another country.
- Plain English Every explanation is written to be read once, slowly, by someone new to the field.
- Project-first A practice task in every lesson and a project at the end of every module.
- No paywall The full syllabus, all lessons and the certificate are free. Nothing is held back for a paid tier.
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The work is the proof
A fresher interview cannot assess a certificate. It can assess a project you can open, explain and change on the spot — which is why every course here ends in one.
- A finished project brief with an evaluation checklist
- A shareable repository, dashboard or case study
- A certificate that records the work, once every lesson is done
Frequently asked questions
The answers that decide whether this is the right six weeks.
Is this a design course?
It is a finishing course. You will learn hierarchy, spacing and consistency as they apply to real deliverables, which is most of what a non-designer needs and none of what a design degree teaches.
Will my work look like a template?
If you take a template and change the text, yes. The course teaches you to build on a plain canvas with your own brand kit so it looks like yours — the templates are for speed, not for identity.
Do I need the paid plan?
For this course, no. The free plan covers the canvas, most templates and a monthly allowance of the AI features. Upgrade when you are producing content weekly.
What will I have at the end of this course?
Three things: a portfolio built as one branded set, a saved set of prompts you wrote and tested on your own work, and a Way2Fresher certificate naming the course. Canva also publishes its own learning material for the tools it makes, and the rail on this course page links to it.
Is the course really free?
Yes. Every lesson, practice task and project brief on this page is free to read, and no card is required. A free account only saves your progress and unlocks the certificate.
Do I need coding experience?
No. This course is written for beginner learners and every lesson starts from the tool itself. If you can use a browser and a file, you can start lesson one today.
How long will it take?
About 4 weeks. The course holds 15 lessons, each built around one practice task, so the calendar depends on how many sessions you can keep each week.
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