Higher Education
One brand across every faculty, campus and channel
Universities and colleges use Canva to give every department professional, on-brand content for recruitment, events and student communication, without a central design bottleneck. Xanadu implements Canva, and drives adoption, for institutions across the UK and MENA.
The problem
In higher education, the brand lives in a hundred hands.
Faculties, departments, societies and services all create their own materials. Without a shared system, the institutional brand fragments across every touchpoint, and prospective students notice. That is not a design problem. It is a reputation one.
The distributed problem
Faculties, departments, societies and services all create their own materials, and the institutional brand fragments across every touchpoint.
The bottleneck problem
A small central team cannot service every department’s prospectus, event and social need during the recruitment cycle. Work waits, or it goes off brand.
The recruitment problem
Prospective students judge institutions on how they present. Inconsistent, dated content quietly costs applications you never see.
Proven
What education teams achieve with Canva.
Universities and colleges use Canva to put on-brand design in the hands of every department, from admissions to alumni, while central marketing keeps control of the brand.
Staff and faculty live on Canva within a week
On-brand templates ready from day one
Consistent across every faculty, campus and channel
Figures from Canva customer stories. Xanadu implements and drives adoption of Canva; these are illustrative Canva outcomes, not Xanadu client results.
The model
Governed creative freedom.
The best institutions solve brand consistency not by restricting what departments create, but by building systems where the approved template is the easiest one to use. That is what Canva, properly implemented, makes possible. Implementation is exactly what Xanadu does.
For your marketing and comms team
- Brand Kit centralised: every approved logo, colour and font in one place, always current.
- Locked templates for prospectuses, course pages, events, social and signage.
- Approval workflows to review content before it goes live, without becoming a bottleneck.
- Brand governance at scale: one Brand Kit update reaches every department.
For your departments and staff
- On-brand content in minutes, not days. Ready for open day, clearing and every deadline.
- No design skill required. Templates handle the design, staff handle the content.
- Every format, one tool: social, print, presentations, signage and email.
- A familiar interface most staff and students already know, so adoption is fast.
How it works
Five steps to a fully operational Canva environment.
Assess
We review your Canva usage, licences and brand standards across faculties and departments, and map your biggest content gaps. Free.
Blueprint
We set the plan: brand and template architecture, the rollout, and a costed roadmap for the institution. 2 to 3 weeks.
Enable
We build your Brand Kit and locked templates, then deploy, train and drive adoption across faculties and student teams. 4 to 6 weeks.
Govern
We configure permissions, approval workflows and licence management, so standards hold across every department. 2 to 3 weeks.
Build
We connect Canva to your wider stack and automate the repetitive work, so it becomes part of how every faculty operates. Ongoing.
Beyond Canva
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Ready to see what this looks like for your team?
A 30-minute discovery call, no commitment. We will map out exactly what implementation looks like for your organisation.