Affinity now FREE for all schools!

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⭐ In case you missed it, Canva have made the Affinity suite of professional design tools absolutely FREE for all schools! 🤯🥳

 

⬇️ Download for Windows, macOS and iPadOS here:

➡️ affinity.serif.com/en-gb/affinity-canva-free-for-schools

 

🥳 You can find educational resources and lesson plans to help you get started here:

📝 affinity.serif.com/en-us/education/resources

 

✅ Great move by Canva! This has the potential to save schools thousands in license costs ! 💰

 

We are excited to share that Affinity’s now available for free for all verified Canva for Education schools!

 

As one of the first schools with access to Affinity, you will benefit from:

Affinity Photo 2: Edit and retouch photos on their own or as part of multilayered photo compositions and photo art.

Affinity Designer 2: Create illustrations, logos, graphics, concept art and other vector designs.

Affinity Publisher 2: Layout images, graphics and text to produce digital and print publications.

 

How to Get Started Today:

Your staff, teachers, and students can access Affinity for free with a verified school email address. For instructions to deploy Affinity across your school network, click below.

https://support.serif.com/hc/en-us/articles/10397292284687-Creating-an-MSI-for-deployment-for-use-with-Canva-Education-and-Nonprofit-accounts

 

For individual schools that prefer to self-serve, you can follow the steps below:

Platform eligibility: Check your operating system is supported and choose which app(s) to download and on which device(s). Supported operating systems include macOS, Windows, or iPadOS.

Onboard your schools: Inform your schools about their new Affinity access! We’ve prepared email copy here with download instructions and resources that will help school admins and teachers get up and running. Please note that the Affinity Additional Terms and Canva’s Privacy Policy apply to you and your team’s use of Affinity.

Explore Affinity resources: Access the Affinity Education Resources Page for lesson plans, guides, and best practices to help educators and students make the most of Affinity.

https://affinity.serif.com/en-us/education/resources/

 

We are here to support you every step of the way. To help facilitate the addition of Affinity to your Canva for Education setup, visit our Affinity Onboarding Page with detailed information for school and district admins. If you’d prefer your team didn’t have access to this additional feature, please contact the Canva Support team. If you any other questions, please email us at [email protected].

 

Happy Designing!

The Canva for Education Team

[jthompson]

Trying this this morning, but the "Sign in with Canva" option when launching the apps just spins (after the browser hand-off). Is anyone else getting that? I suspect it might be the Affinity servers under high demand following the announcement. Is anyone else seeing that?

[icechris]

I got a activation failed - too many requests throttled message so I assume they can't cope with the number of attempts at the moment. I'm going to leave it 24 hours.

[JOrdan01070]

Activation seems to be working know.

[k-strider]

Yes i was getting that

activation failed - too many requests throttled message

but not anymore (but had to turn EXA ad proxy off) which the kids can't do so will just have to work that out before we publicise it :-)

[Patrick_Exa]

Yes i was getting that but not anymore (but had to turn EXA ad proxy off) which the kids can't do so will just have to work that out before we publicise it :-)

@k-strider - Sorry to hear you are having issues with this.

 

We are looking into this at the moment, to identify what we need to allow to get this working with the AD proxy in place. I have also dropped you a PM with some contact information to reach out and let me know which school you are using this software at.

 

Patrick

Customer Operations Team Leader

[jthompson]

To get Affinity to sign in via Canva (for both teachers and students), I've had to adjust the following setting in Canva:

 

Settings -> Permissions -> Integrations -> Manage Integrations -> Disable the option "Enable integration restrictions".

 

If I turn that option on, I only see Slack and Vela as available to allow. I'm assuming that I ought to be able to see Affinity listed there, so that I can allowlist that, but I don't. I'll check back in a few days.

 

 

The Canva sign-in screen does reflect that state of that option, but it still lets you click Allow and hand back to the Affinity app anyway (Affinity just spins on its sign-in screen). +1 for reading things, I guess!

 

 

[Patrick_Exa]

Thank you to @k-strider for working with us.

 

We have been able to identify and resolve the issues they were seeing, and as a result we have made some global changes to the Exa SurfProtect filtering to ensure these applications will works at all of our schools.