Canva: Transition to ALA Team

Canva for Nonprofits provides ALA staff with a powerful tool to create engaging marketing materials. These step-by-step instructions guide you through transitioning existing Canva content to an ALA Team account, giving you full access to all Canva features and images.

Contents:

Getting Started:

  1. Request access to Canva by sending an email to help@ala.org
    • Please include your ALA email address as well as the email address associated with your existing Canva account, if applicable
  2. You will receive an emailed invitation to join the ALA Team on Canva
  3. Accept the invitation (on both ALA and personal accounts, if applicable)

Copying Projects to ALA Team from Personal Account:

  1. After accepting the invitation to join the ALA Team, log into your personal Canva account
  2. Make sure you are on your personal account, not the ALA Team
    • OnPersonalTeam
  3. Find your ALA projects and folders
  4. Click the dots next to the project/folder and select “Copy to another team”
    • STEP4-CopyToTeam
  5. Choose the ALA Team you just joined
  6. Once all ALA related content is copied over, switch from your personal account to the ALA Team
    • ToALATeam
  7. Verify that your content is copied over
  8. Share all content you just copied over with your ala.org email address (make sure you give yourself editing access)
  9. Log out of Canva
  10. Log back in with your ala.org email address
  11. Verify that you can view and edit your content
  12. When you are finished moving all ALA projects to the ALA Team, email help@ala.org to have your personal account removed from the ALA team
  13. Log back in to your personal account and delete ALA content
  14. Use your ala.org login for all future content editing and creation

Copying Projects to ALA Team from ALA Account:

  1. After accepting the invitation to join the ALA Team, log into your Canva account
  2. Find your ALA projects and folders
  3. Click the dots next to the project/folder and select “Copy to another team”
    • STEP4-CopyToTeam
  4. Choose the ALA Team you just joined
  5. Once all content is copied over, switch to the ALA Team
    • ToALATeam
  6. Verify that your content is copied over
  7. Create and edit all future content within the ALA Team

Questions?

Email help@ala.org for additional guidance