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. 🟢 Indicates a free version available.
🎨 Canva
Purpose: Graphic design platform for creating slides, posters, and videos.
Best for: Designing visually appealing presentations and teaching materials.
Pro Tip: Explore Canva’s “Education” templates for ready-to-use lesson visuals and infographics.
🟢 Free version available for Teachers and Students.
Purpose: Graphic design platform with templates for presentations, infographics, and social media posts.
🎨 Adobe Express
Purpose: Easy-to-use creative suite for making videos, graphics, and web pages.
Best for: Storytelling, course introductions, and student multimedia assignments.
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.
🎨 Open Educational Resources (OER): Free Images
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: Stick to background removal or there is a cost.
🟢Free to easily remove background from images.
💡 Faculty Tips
- Use design tools to create consistent visual identities for your courses (colors, headers, icons).
- Encourage students to use these tools for multimedia assignments or digital storytelling projects.
- Always ensure accessibility — use alt text and readable color contrasts in visuals.