Design & Creativity Tools
🎨 Design & Creativity Tools
These tools empower faculty and students to express ideas visually, design engaging course materials, and create multimedia projects that bring learning to life.
🟢 Canva
Purpose: Graphic design platform with templates for presentations, infographics, and social media posts.
Best for: Creating visually appealing course materials, flyers, or project visuals.
Pro Tip: Use the “Education” plan for free premium features available to teachers.
🟢 Adobe Express
Purpose: Easy-to-use creative suite for making videos, graphics, and web pages.
Best for: Storytelling, course introductions, and student multimedia assignmentsassignments.
Pro Tip: Try the “video story” templates to create quick course overview videos.
🟢 Lunacy
Purpose: Free vector graphic editor for creating illustrations and UI designs.
Best for: Designing visuals, icons, or custom graphics for presentations and courses.
Pro Tip: Use Lunacy’s built-in image generator to quickly add visual variety to handouts or slides.
🟢 OpenIllux
Purpose: Repository of open-licensed illustrations and visuals for educational use.
Best for: Finding free artwork for presentations, online courses, and OER projects.
Pro Tip: Filter by license type to ensure attribution-free use in your course materials.
🟢 Remove.bg
Purpose: Removes image backgrounds instantly using AI.
Best for: Creating clean graphics, profile images, or transparent logos for teaching materials.
Pro Tip: Combine with Canva or Adobe Express for layered designs and custom banners.