INTEGRATED SOFTWARE APPLICATION

• Canva


  An online design and publishing tool with a mission to empower everyone in the world to design anything and publish anywhere
• Canva


  • Founded in 2012 by Melanie Perkins, Cliff Obrecht, and their co-founder, Cameron Adams, in Perth, Australia
  • Offers a wide range of creative tools and templates for creating various visual materials
  • Empowers individuals to design anything and publish it anywhere, regardless of their design expertise
  • An online platform that can be accessed through computers, tablets, and smartphones
• The Birth of Canva


  The idea came to Melanie Perkins while she was teaching graphic design at the University of Western Australia, as she noticed her students found it challenging to use professional design software, so she came up with the idea of creating a simple, user-friendly graphic design tool that anyone could use
• How to use Canva

  1. Open your Canva web or app

  2. Sign in or sign up your email or Canva account

  3. Make your teams with other accounts

  4. Choose and make your own design or desired template

  5. Download or save your finished design
• Steps on making your own design

  1. Sign up or Create a Canva account

  2. Select template category

  3. Look through pre-made templates

  4. Choose a template or decide to design from scratch

  5. Add or customize design elements

  6. Download or Share: Download it in various formats (PNG, JPG, or PDF) or directly share it on social media or via email
• Basic Tools on Canva

  • Elements - Choose images, frames, shapes, or lines for your design
  • Text Tab - Add various text styles like headings and body text, along with font options
  • Brand Kit - Ensures your business has consistent logos, fonts, colors, and imagery
  • Upload Tab - Add your own images and graphics
  • Draw - Tool for sketching, drawing, marking up, and highlighting
  • Projects - Access all your designs, favorites, purchases, shared items, and folders
  • Home - Return to your homepage
  • File - Create, save, resize, and manage your design settings
  • Resize - Change the size of your design
  • All changes saved - Canva automatically saves your work
  • Document Name - Rename your design anytime
  • Share - Share your design and adjust permissions
  • Lock Page - To partially lock the page you're working on
  • Add New Page - Easily add new pages
  • Add Comments - Attach comments to your design
  • Zoom Control - Adjust your workspace size
  • Help - Access Canva's support while working on your design
• How to utilize the use of Canva


  • Social Media Graphics
  • Presentation Slides
  • Marketing Materials
  • Invitations and Cards
  • Infographics
  • Videos
• Tips on making Docs and Files in Canva

  • Try to familiarize yourself with the application
  • Be prepared with an idea of design in mind. Be authentic
  • Master the Canva keyboard shortcuts
  • Learn useful tips and tricks
  • Use other social apps to find elements and color codes, template ideas, as well as tutorials
  • Unleash your creativity
  • Enjoy the process of making your CanvArt
  • Learn the difference between Canva Free and Canva Pro
• As the time goes by and technology continuously evolves, Canva proves that they can also step up when it comes to offering new and exciting features to their users
• New Canva Features


  • Magic Studio / Magic AI for Pro users
  • New Type Gradient Feature
  • Canva Docs Feature
  • Canva Website Feature
  • Canwave
  • Blur Tool
  • Magic Enhancer for Photographs
• Microsoft Word (MS Word)

  A word processing program used to create, format, save and print letters, manuals, contracts, proposals, reports, newsletters, cards, flyers, invitations, certificates, forms, envelopes, blog posts, webpages, signs, manuscripts or books with table of contents and other documents
• Microsoft Word (MS Word)

  • Can be offered as a cloud service or as software that users can install on a PC or mobile device
  • An integral part of the Microsoft Office suite of products and is the most widely-used word processor in the world, estimated to be running on more than a billion devices worldwide
  • Allows users to create documents from scratch or from a template, add text, images, art, and videos, research a topic and find credible sources, access documents from a computer, tablet, or phone via OneDrive, share documents and collaborate with others, and track and review changes
• The first ever version of Microsoft Word - Word 1.0 - was launched in October 1983 and developed by former Xerox programmers, Charles Simonyi and Richard Brodie


  1983
• WYSIWYG


  What you see is what you get
• Starting Up MS Word

  1. Desktop - Find the application that says "Microsoft Word" without a file name, there you will open a new blank document

  2. Search - Second option if you don't have your word application on your desktop is to search it, go to your windows tab then type "Microsoft Word"

  3. Welcome - When you open up the Microsoft Word, the presented screen will be this start screen
• Canva


  An online design and publishing tool with a mission to empower everyone in the world to design anything and publish anywhere
• Canva


  • Founded in 2012 by Melanie Perkins, Cliff Obrecht, and their co-founder, Cameron Adams, in Perth, Australia
  • Offers a wide range of creative tools and templates for creating various visual materials
  • Empowers individuals to design anything and publish it anywhere, regardless of their design expertise
  • An online platform that can be accessed through computers, tablets, and smartphones
• The Birth of Canva


  The idea came to Melanie Perkins while she was teaching graphic design at the University of Western Australia, as she noticed her students found it challenging to use professional design software, so she came up with the idea of creating a simple, user-friendly graphic design tool that anyone could use
• How to use Canva

  1. Open your Canva web or app

  2. Sign in or sign up your email or Canva account

  3. Make your teams with other accounts

  4. Choose and make your own design or desired template

  5. Download or save your finished design
• Steps on making your own design

  1. Sign up or Create a Canva account

  2. Select template category

  3. Look through pre-made templates

  4. Choose a template or decide to design from scratch

  5. Add or customize design elements

  6. Download or Share: Download it in various formats (PNG, JPG, or PDF) or directly share it on social media or via email
• Basic Tools on Canva

  • Elements - Choose images, frames, shapes, or lines for your design
  • Text Tab - Add various text styles like headings and body text, along with font options
  • Brand Kit - Ensures your business has consistent logos, fonts, colors, and imagery
  • Upload Tab - Add your own images and graphics
  • Draw - Tool for sketching, drawing, marking up, and highlighting
  • Projects - Access all your designs, favorites, purchases, shared items, and folders
  • Home - Return to your homepage
  • File - Create, save, resize, and manage your design settings
  • Resize - Change the size of your design
  • All changes saved - Canva automatically saves your work
  • Document Name - Rename your design anytime
  • Share - Share your design and adjust permissions
  • Lock Page - To partially lock the page you're working on
  • Add New Page - Easily add new pages
  • Add Comments - Attach comments to your design
  • Zoom Control - Adjust your workspace size
  • Help - Access Canva's support while working on your design
• How to utilize the use of Canva


  • Social Media Graphics
  • Presentation Slides
  • Marketing Materials
  • Invitations and Cards
  • Infographics
  • Videos
• Tips on making Docs and Files in Canva

  • Try to familiarize yourself with the application
  • Be prepared with an idea of design in mind. Be authentic
  • Master the Canva keyboard shortcuts
  • Learn useful tips and tricks
  • Use other social apps to find elements and color codes, template ideas, as well as tutorials
  • Unleash your creativity
  • Enjoy the process of making your CanvArt
  • Learn the difference between Canva Free and Canva Pro
• As the time goes by and technology continuously evolves, Canva proves that they can also step up when it comes to offering new and exciting features to their users
• New Canva Features

  • Magic Studio / Magic AI for Pro users
  • New Type Gradient Feature
  • Canva Docs Feature
  • Canva Website Feature
  • Canwave
  • Blur Tool
  • Magic Enhancer for Photographs
• Microsoft Word (MS Word)


  A word processing program used to create, format, save and print letters, manuals, contracts, proposals, reports, newsletters, cards, flyers, invitations, certificates, forms, envelopes, blog posts, webpages, signs, manuscripts or books with table of contents and other documents
• Microsoft Word (MS Word)

  • Can be offered as a cloud service or as software that users can install on a PC or mobile device
  • An integral part of the Microsoft Office suite of products and is the most widely-used word processor in the world, estimated to be running on more than a billion devices worldwide
  • Allows users to create documents from scratch or from a template, add text, images, art, and videos, research a topic and find credible sources, access documents from a computer, tablet, or phone via OneDrive, share documents and collaborate with others, and track and review changes
• The first ever version of Microsoft Word - Word 1.0 - was launched, developed by former Xerox programmers, Charles Simonyi and Richard Brodie


  1983
• WYSIWYG


  What you see is what you get
• Word 2.0 was released, with added features including spell check and word count


  1985
• Microsoft released Word 6.0 which worked on Macintosh, Windows and DOS


  1993
• The most recent release of Microsoft Word, Word 2021, part of Office 365


  October 5th 2021
• Starting Up MS Word

  1. Desktop - Find the application that says "Microsoft Word" without a file name, and open a new blank document

  2. Search - Search for "Microsoft Word" in the Windows tab

  3. Welcome - The presented screen when opening Microsoft Word
• Parts and Functions of MS Word

  • Quick Access Toolbar - Allows users to save, undo, and redo files in one click
  • Title Bar - Displays saved files for easy identification
  • Minimize, Maximize, and Exit - Areas to reduce, enlarge, and close windows
  • Ribbon Tabs - Provide important functions for encoders
  • Ribbon - Can alter several features of your text, including font style, font size, text alignment, and color
  • Category Groups - In the Home tab you can see Clipboard, Font, Paragraph and Styles
  • Scroll Bar - Used to navigate the workspace, both horizontal and vertical
  • Workspace - Where all your data is encoded
  • Ruler - Manually adjust the margin of the document with the help of horizontal and vertical rulers
  • Status Bar - Lets you see how many words you have already encoded, how many pages you are using, and what language denomination you are using
  • Document View Button - Allows you to choose how to view your file: Read Mode, Print Layout, Web Layout
  • Zoom Control - Allows you to zoom in or out of the workspace
• Different Shortcut Keys

  • Not provided in the source material
• Document


  A written, printed, or digital file that serves as a formal record and offers information or proof
• Steps on how to open a document with template

  1. Click the file tab

  2. Search and click your desired template

  3. Click "create"
• Steps on how to open an existing document

  1. Click the "open"

  2. Select "this PC" then open browse or select OneDrive

  3. Look where you save the file, select the file, then click "open"
• How to move text

  1. Select the text you want to move

  2. Click and drag the text, then release the mouse
• How to cut text

  1. Select the text you want to cut

  2. Click the cut command or use Ctrl + X