What is Canva? How Does Canva Work? Canva is a free graphic design platform that allows you to easily create invitations, business cards, flyers, lesson plans, Zoom backgrounds, and other items by utilizing professionally designed templates. You can even upload your own photos and add them to Canva’s templates by dragging them in. It’s similar to a free, basic version of Photoshop that doesn’t require extensive photo-editing knowledge to use. Canva has thousands of professionally …