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So it's the start of the school year and you have millions of things to do that take up a lot of time
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So I'm hoping that this video will show you how to create really beautiful looking name tags
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in not a lot of time at all. So the first step that you want to do is to go to canva.com
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slash education and sign up for an educator account with Canva. If you're not familiar with
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Canva for Education you can check out the video above which will show you how to use Canva as a
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teacher. Now once you've created your Canva account the first thing that you'll want to do is search
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for name tags. You'll notice that Canva gives you lots of different options for name tags that you
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can use with your students. I'm going to choose this option right over here to the left
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Before we start you want to know the size of the name tag that you'll be designing. You can see the
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dimensions of each name tag by clicking the button that says resize. So you'll notice that this name
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tag is three and a half inches by two inches. Now if you have name tag holders like these ones that
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you see on the screen here you'll see the dimensions for this name tag holder here. So if I want to
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change this name tag to match those dimensions all I have to do is enter the new height and the new width
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in that resize menu and click copy and resize. There we go here's my new image which will fit
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directly inside the name tag holder. So as you'll see you can change anything on the screen. Again
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if you check out the video above it will show you how to use the design in Canva. If you like you can
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even add your school logo to the name tag. Again everything that you see on this name tag is
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completely customizable. Once you finish one student just click on the duplicate button and change the name
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There we go. Now once your whole class is finished the last step that you want to do is to download
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the actual file of each name tag. You can do that by clicking the download button and choosing your
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file type. For this one I'm just going to leave this as a png image. And here we go here are the
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three individual name tags that I designed in Canva which are precisely the same dimensions to
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fit in my name tag holder. I can highlight these three and print them to a printer. If I wanted to
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I could probably lay them out on one page in order to save some paper when I print. But once you have
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these printed out you can cut them add them in your name tag holder and then you're all set. So
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again out of all the things you have to do at the beginning of the year that take time I'm hoping
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that creating student name tags isn't one of those. And I believe that by using Canva it can help save
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you a lot of time and a lot of frustration. So again check out my videos on Canva and how to use
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them in the classroom. And if you have any questions or any comments leave them below and
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I'm happy to answer them
