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 Canva


My Platform 
    Canva was something that I always used in high school as a student. We used it for making posters for either school events or when given a project where we had to create an infographic, digital stories, and interactive presentations. As a teacher, I could see myself using this for morning agendas, creating calendars, posters for the room, and even more things for the students (educational games). 

Official Policy 
    Canvas's main legal agreement governing how you may use the service (accounting, content, design rights, restrictions, etc.) There are also references to their Acceptable Use Policy and content licensing terms. There is a Content License Agreement, which covers copyright and infringement. It mentions how to get the Canva grants licenses for free content and pro content that you would use in designs that you can create. There is the Intellectual Property Policy, which describes how Canva handles copyright, how to report infringement, and users' responsibilities for uploaded or licensed content. And finally, the Acceptable Use Policy rules for what content you can create. This places limits on content upload or creation using Canva (restricted or harmful content). 

Identify One Rule That Changes Teacher Behavior
    The limitation would be that the Pro Content in Canva for Education is strictly non-commercial. This means that if a teacher wanted to create something to sell or distribute outside of the classroom, then the teacher must use a separate account/team for those commercial designs. Let's say a teacher wants to create and sell a worksheet bundle, printable flashcards, or any other type of educational material that they could sell to other teachers online. When using Canva, they would have to use a different account because teachers cannot sell under the free educational license; the policy restricts Pro content only to educational, non-commercial purposes. 

Apply It To Your Teaching Area
    As a teacher who is thinking about Secondary History, I could use this for infographis inirted onto my slides or even to just show to the class. I could use this to describe and share different events that happened throughout History. Students could also interact with Canva because I could have them create their own infographic about people throughout History and even places throughout history. I would keep things to myself because of the Pro Content in Canva for Education. Knowing this policy, I would stay aware of it and not risk posting because other people could copy the content I created. 

Fair Use vs Platform Rules
    Canva can be stricter than the Fair Use, even if it seems legal; Canva can still block or remove things because of its license terms that they have. Canva doens't allow using their assets as logos or trademarks, reselling or redistributing assets "as-is", and making Canva elements the main value of something that the teacher can sell. 

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