Course Review: Canva Graphic Design For Entrepreneurs

Full Course Title: Canva Graphic Design For Entrepreneurs Design 11 Projects

Platform: Udemy

Description: (From Udemy)

This online course will teach you how to use Canva to create PRACTICAL REAL WORLD projects for your business or brand.

• Do you want to create your own graphics for social media or the internet, but don't know where to begin?
• Have you spent time and energy Googling graphic design application tutorials online only to find out that it never covers exactly what you need?
• Is outsourcing your graphics to a 3rd party a hassle, especially when you have to go back and forth to make changes before the project is completed?

If you answered yes to any of these questions, you're in the right place! 

We know that it can be frustrating and time consuming to create artwork for your business. You can spend hours or even days trying to find the right tutorial online. Outsourcing the work can be an even bigger challenge just to find the right candidate to do what you need done, and expensive!

That's why we created this course - to teach people just like you how to easily get started with Canva.

Phil Ebiner and Jeremy Deighan have been using A for years to grow their business and have developed a system to allow you to learn just what you need to know, only when you need it. 

Have fun while learning! Learn by actually doing!

After enrolling in this course, you'll be taken through 11 projects you'll need to run your business. Follow along and practice while learning!

Canva for Entrepreneurs will show you the necessary tools as you apply them.

Course Projects You'll Learn How to Create:

1. Social Media Graphic
2. Blog Title
3. Facebook Cover
4. Facebook Post
5. Facebook Ad
6. Twitter Header
7. Twitter Post
8. YouTube Thumbnail
9. YouTube Channel Art
10. Google+ Photo
11. Pinterest Graphic

Whether you just want to enhance your Canva skills for business, or have a specific project you need done right this instant, this course is for you. 

We will guide you every step of the way and are here to make sure you succeed in your ventures. Both instructors are always available to answer any messages, discussions, questions, or feedback that you have.

Get a Certificate of Completion when you finish the course!

What you’ll learn

• Create 11 different and practical projects that can be used to help your business or brand.
• Build specific graphic design elements for social media and the internet by utilizing templates and tools specific to the platform needed.
• Save time and money by easily creating your own artwork, quickly and efficiently.

Are there any course requirements or prerequisites?

• Students who want to follow along with the projects should have Canva installed.

Who this course is for:

• This course is geared towards entrepreneurs who want complete control over their branding, but don't have time to learn complex graphic design applications.
• Beginner, intermediate, and advanced users of Canva can find tools and tricks to help speed up their workflow when creating graphics for businesses.
• Anyone who is looking for a complete Canva course that explains every tool and facet of the application should not take this course. This is a course that provides practical projects for entrepreneurs in real world settings, so not every tool and function will be explained.

The Instructors: Jeremy Deighan has an extensive background in different forms of art and design and an associates degree in Computer Animation. He has worked with various production houses to create awesome content. Adobe Photoshop has been a staple of his arsenal since he was 16 and uses it faithfully to this day.

He also has a history in live visual arts, specifically lighting design for music events, festivals, theaters, and corporate gigs. His passion for the visual arts has helped him become a master in understanding lighting, color theory, and composition.

Phil Ebiner in 2011, he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Film and Television Production at Loyola Marymount University . While there, he was fortunate to make documentaries in Switzerland, Germany, Mexico, and India. After graduating, he worked at Participant Media shooting and editing short-form documentaries for their website TakePart. He followed that stint with a contract at Stanbridge College where he discovered online learning and helped pioneer their online school there. After that, he spent 2 years working at University of California Berkeley with the media team.

My Review: I have not finished working though this course however, I've done enough to know that the course does exactly what it says it will do. It gives you an introduction into how to use Canva to make your own posts for Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. I've even used Canva to make a graphic for this blog post (as you can see above). Here are a few examples of what I made so far using the information I learned from the course and Canva.

I've also done a post for Oh Sehun (from EXO) on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.

Instagram

Facebook

Twitter

I'm really enjoying this course and the things I'm learning from it. I'm only playing with the Canva set up right now and my stuff looks good (It isn't great yet but I'm sure the more I use it the more my work will look better.) I highly recommend this course if you are looking to make your brand pop or if you are at a loss as to how to make your posts stand out in social media. Or if you just want to spruce up your social platforms.

Udemy As a Learning Tool

          Udemy advertises itself as "The world’s largest selection of courses". I don't know if that is true but they certainly have a large selection of courses on just about anything you can think of. Originally I wanted to review a specific course but in the end I opted for reviewing the site as a whole.

ABOUT UDEMY:

1. Udemy has over 100,000 online video courses with new additions published every month. 
2. Once you make a purchase, you have life time access to it. A lot of times the information on a course you have already bought is added too or even completely changed and the teachers will send out emails letting everyone of the changes. So you could be done with the course but then the teacher will add another module and an email will be sent to you to let you know. You can then go learn that module too without paying extra since you already bought the original course.
3. A 30 day money back guarantee, so if for some reason you are not satisfied with the course you can get your money back. I had that happen to me once where I bought a course and then I bought a related one which turned out to be the same course but an older version. I got my money back right away and the author was notified to take the older course offline.
4. The categories of courses that they have include: Development, business, IT and software, design, marketing, personal development, photography, and music.  
5. Another thing that I noticed about the site is that they are forever running sales. I used to think that that was interesting until I realized that this was a marketing ploy lol...you know how I learned that? By taking a course on business and marketing from Udemy. The truth is that that is the price range for most of the courses on Udemy, 10 - 20 dollars at the most. For what they teach I think it is good value.

          My experience with the site has been very positive as a whole. I've learned (and still learning) things like business, Korean, Latin, Irish history, Chinese, drawing, watercolor painting, and many other things. 

WHAT I'VE LEARNED:

1. Make sure you always check on how many hours the course is, they could have tons of videos but they only amount to 1-2 hours and that means that the course is not in depth. If you are looking for an introduction then that is fine but if you are like me and want to learn the ins and outs of a subject as much as possible then the longer courses are the best. 
2. Make sure that you look at the outline of the course and watch the previews they offer. This allows you to know a few things:
• like whether this course has what you want to study when it comes to subject matter, 
• whether the teaching style is something you can learn from, 
• and whether you can understand the teacher because sometimes the teacher's first language is not English and the accents can be a hurdle for some people.

I hope that what I shared with you has helped you make up your mind on whether to check out Udemy. In case you do want too here is the link: udemy.com