The new Canva Documents has a bunch of neat instruments together with the AI writing instrument that I highlighted final week. Continuing on that theme of synthetic intelligence, Canva now has a function that permits you to shortly flip a doc right into a slideshow presentation.
When you viewing a doc in Canva check out the upper-right nook of the display screen and you will discover a “convert” button. When you click on that button Canva will generate a set of slideshows primarily based in your doc. You can preview the entire slideshows they generate earlier than you select one to use to your doc. Once you’ve got chosen a slideshow from the checklist of robotically generated ones, you’ll be able to edit the robotically generated slideshow.
There are some things to notice about Canva’s document-to-slideshow conversion instrument. First, it is nonetheless in beta so there’ll most likely be some quirks. Second, your doc will need to have headers in it. Each header turns into its personal slide. Third, the slides haven’t any footage added to them except your doc had footage in it (you’ll be able to manually add footage to the slides after the slideshow is generated).
Video – How to Use Canva to Convert a Document Into a Slideshow
Applications for Education
The document-to-slideshow conversion function in Canva might be useful if you have already got a top level view of a presentation and need to shortly flip it right into a slideshow. I see this being useful to people like me who’ve years of outlines of notes I’ve given to my U.S. History courses.