- 60min
- free
- Not specified
- English, Bosnian, Estonian, Finnish, Italian
Description
Canva is a beginner friendly website used for graphic design. It has a variety of functions like adding pictures, text, shapes, and filters. Canva is the perfect tool if you want youth to express their ideas in a creative way. To use Canva, you need an account, but multiple people can work on one account simultaneously if only one design is being worked on one computer at a time. It’s free to use, but to unlock all features, a subscription is needed.
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Method & Activity Information.
- Difficulty: Medium
- Session location: Tampere, Finland
- Test date: 14/04/2026
- Duration: 60min
- Costs: free
- Materials used: laptops
- Youth participated: 9
- Registration: required
Case Description
Tampere Lapsiystävällinen Kunta (Child friendly municipality) group is comprised of around ten young people who gather together around once a month. The groups’ mission is to evaluate how decisions impacting families with children in Tampere are made. In March 2026, the group was visited by an expert in anti-violent action. In the next gathering, youth created posters expressing their anti-violence sentiments based on what they learned last time. The posters were created with the digital tool Canva. Activity facilitators created a Canva tutorial to help youth use the tool and offered individual help when needed. The posters will be used in the projects marketing on social media.
Method Usage
The session included a short guided setup for the poster work. We asked youth to sign into the computers, sign into Canva and to find the poster base in Canva. The rest of the session was dedicated to specific time slots, one slot for writing text, one for adding images and one for final touches. In the end this division of work was largely ignored by youth who were eager to move onto visualizations right after they had put their text down. The produced posters were all different and had unique perspectives.
Verbal feedback was positive. The young people said they liked that they had enough time to work on their posters and that it was nice that they got to think about the topic beforehand. The anti-violence theme was well received because it was sufficiently wide reaching. Some criticisms included Canva being difficult to use for drawing and the young people who couldn’t think about the topic beforehand had a harder time.
Method & Activity Feedback
Facilitator
Category
Likert-7 AVG
Description
Effectiveness
6.6
Efficiency
6.0
Learnability
5.8
Enjoyability
65.8
Adaptability
6.7
Feedback (recommendation)
5.9
Observer
Category
Likert-7 AVG
Description
Engagement & Participation
6.0
Comprehension & Knowledge
6.0
Game Mechanics & Functionality
6.0
Participant Experience
Category
Likert-7 AVG
Description
Enjoyment
5.2
Usability
4.8
Learnability
5.1
Recommendation score
5.5
Positive
Overall, verbal feedback was positive. The young people said they liked that they had enough time to work on their posters and that it was nice that they got to think about the topic beforehand. The anti-violence theme was well received because it was sufficiently wide reaching.
Negative
Canva is difficult to use for drawing. The young people who couldn’t think about the topic beforehand had a harder time.
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