10-lesson course · about 20 hours

Hand your recurring Canva prep to supervised agents. Keep publishing for yourself.

For Canva creators, small-business owners, marketers and brand teams producing presentations, social assets and short videos

Everything for Canva creators

Build intake, copy, template, video and checking agents in OpenAI Dots or Claude Duet. Each gets a written remit, a named owner and a tested way to pause. Nothing ships without your approval.

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What you’ll be able to do

By the end, you can…

A one-page remit for every recurring jobEach remit says what starts the agent (a single run or a continuing brief), which files and approved connections it can use, where its work lands, who settles what it can't, its agreed report, how to pause or retire it, and the check that closes the run.
Clear limits on what agents may doEvery agent action gets one of three settings: always allowed, needs approval, or never. Publishing and deleting a master are always set to never, so no agent can do either on its own.
Overnight briefs that arrive complete, or visibly incompleteYou build an intake agent in OpenAI Dots or Claude Duet. It structures requests against your brand record, merges duplicates and leaves missing fields blank. It asks you no more than twice, then pauses.
Copy batches you can trace back to your factsA copy agent drafts a bounded batch from your approved messaging record and tags each line with its source fact. When a fact changes, say a count goes from thirty to thirty-six, only the affected lines are rerun, and contradictions come to you.
Templates, revisions and video packets that stay in stepBriefs are matched to approved Canva templates within their copy-length limits, with production instructions someone else can follow. Revisions are logged and edits that break a brand rule stop. A versioned CapCut packet and fix log keep captions and timing tied to the latest approved exports.
A release queue you have tested yourselfYou connect the agents through an export manifest, then withhold an approval and slip in a stale export on purpose. You confirm both get flagged, and that pausing, resuming and retiring the agents doesn't recreate finished work.

How it works

A tutor that meets you where you are

  1. Lessons that adapt to your levelTen lessons in five modules, following the order a campaign moves: intake, copy, templates, video, release. The explanations and examples adjust to what you already know and to the shop or brand you're working on.
  2. An AI tutor you can ask anythingType or speak your questions while you work. You might ask whether a job should be a single run or a continuing brief, how to word a remit, or why a test failed. The tutor works through it with you one-on-one.
  3. Quizzes and flashcards for each lessonShort quizzes and flashcards tied to each lesson help you remember the three settings, the remit fields, the manifest checks and the reasons behind them.
  4. Progress tracking and a certificateYou can see where you are in the course and what's left. When you finish all ten lessons, you receive a certificate of completion.

Curriculum

The curriculum

The ten lessons follow one small recurring content batch from incoming briefs to an inspectable release queue. Each module adds one supervised agent, and the last one connects them all and tests them on purpose.

Module 1Keep recurring briefs complete.2 lessons

  1. 1Structure incoming requests
    • Write a one-page remit for an intake agent covering its trigger, files and approved connections, where its work lands, its named owner, the agreed report, how to pause or retire it, and the closing check
    • Assign each intake action one of three settings: always allowed, needs approval, or never
    • Choose between OpenAI Dots and Claude Duet, and between a single run and a continuing brief, and give reasons that fit your shop
    • Build an intake agent that turns a raw request into a structured brief drawn from a current brand record
  2. 2Handle missing and repeated requests
    • Explain why a blank field is safer than a plausible guess in a recurring workflow
    • Configure rules for duplicates, missing fields and missing approvals, including a limit of two questions to the owner before the agent pauses
    • Define the intake agent's agreed report and its pause, resume and retire procedure
    • Test the intake agent on a set of overnight briefs and check its output against the originals

Module 2Prepare content batches from approved facts.2 lessons

  1. 3Generate a bounded copy batch
    • Build an approved messaging record that the copy agent may draw on, and nothing else
    • Define a bounded batch: which items, formats, length limits and what counts as done
    • Configure the copy agent to tag every line with its brief ID and source fact, and to flag any line that has no source
    • Review a draft batch for meaning, reading order, dates, claims and calls to action
  2. 4Respond to a changed message
    • Configure a fact change as the trigger for a targeted rerun, as a continuing brief or a single run
    • Use source tags to list exactly which lines a change affects
    • Explain which earlier approvals a change cancels and which still stand
    • Test a changed fact and confirm that only the tagged lines changed

Module 3Match each brief to a usable template.2 lessons

  1. 5Prepare template instructions
    • Build a template index of approved masters showing fields, copy-length limits, sizes and editable elements
    • Configure a template agent that matches briefs to masters, marks uncertain matches and escalates when nothing fits
    • Write production instructions precise enough that someone else can carry them out in Canva without guessing
    • Explain why every resize to a social size is treated as a new layout
  2. 6Track the design revisions
    • Build a revision log that links each design version to its brief, copy version, template and editable source
    • Configure the agent to stop on edits that break a brand rule and to flag designs made out of date by a copy change
    • Produce crop checks for social-size variants and review them on a phone
    • Check each design against the permissions list and basic accessibility needs

Module 4Keep video work aligned with the collection.2 lessons

  1. 7Prepare the video packet
    • Write a remit for a video-prep agent, including its trigger, three settings and agreed report
    • Build a versioned edit packet that links to specific copy and export versions
    • Configure the agent to pause when an approved input is missing and not substitute a draft
    • Check the packet's rights and privacy items before the edit starts
  2. 8Track caption and timing fixes
    • Build a fix log that records each caption and timing issue from human notes through to a checked fix
    • Configure the agent to compare caption text with approved copy and flag frames that use out-of-date exports
    • Set a retry limit and an escalation owner for fixes that keep failing
    • Check captions against the audio and timing in the playing video, on a phone

Module 5Make the release queue inspectable.2 lessons

  1. 9Check the export manifest
    • Map the handoffs between the intake, copy, template, video and checking agents, each with a named owner
    • Build an export manifest that links every file to its source, versions, checks, rights and approval
    • Configure a checking agent that flags stale, missing and unapproved items in an agreed report
    • Explain why 'ready' means the evidence exists and is not permission to publish
  2. 10Test a blocked asset
    • Design a deliberate test that withholds one approval and slips in one stale export
    • Check that the manifest flags and blocks both items and that nothing downstream is marked ready
    • Test pausing, resuming and retiring, and confirm that no finished item is recreated
    • Revise a remit or setting when a test fails, and rerun the test

Who it’s for

Made for you if…

Made for: Canva creators, small-business owners, marketers and brand teams producing presentations, social assets and short videos

Template sellers working alone

You're the named owner of every agent you build. This course shows you how to hand off overnight requests, repeated formats and export checks while keeping control of facts, rights and the decision to publish.

Small-business owners who make their own marketing in Canva Pro

Recurring posts, presentations and short videos keep piling up. You'll learn to give that work to agents with written limits, and to catch copy and exports that drift from the current brief.

Marketers and small brand teams of two or three

When copy changes close to a deadline, files fall out of step. Agents with written remits, a shared export manifest and a named owner for each one keep the team working from the same approved version.

Questions

Good to know

What do I need before I start?

You should be comfortable in Canva Pro (layouts, resizing, brand elements, templates and template links). You should be able to write a one-page brief and a facts sheet, and know basic CapCut editing with captions. You also need written brand rules, or a willingness to draft them as four lists: true, fixed, may flex, and never ships without you. You'll need access to OpenAI Dots or Claude Duet, plus a sample or real campaign with brand notes and a few incoming briefs.

Which agent tool does the course use?

OpenAI Dots and Claude Duet are taught as equals. In the first lesson you choose one, and decide between a single run and a continuing brief, for reasons that fit your shop.

Will the agents publish or schedule posts for me?

No. Publishing and deleting a master are always set to never run automatically. The course treats 'ready' as meaning the evidence exists, not as permission to publish. Automated publishing and scheduling are not covered.

Do I need to write code or build integrations with Canva?

No. The course doesn't cover custom integrations, APIs or code-based connections to Canva. Agents work through approved connections. Where none exists, they write precise instructions and a person does the edit in Canva.

How much time will it take?

About 20 hours across ten self-paced lessons.

Does it cover advanced video editing?

No. You prepare a versioned CapCut edit packet and track caption and timing fixes. Advanced editing, motion design and audio production are outside this course.

How does the course handle private data and rights?

Lessons include checks for rights, permissions and basic accessibility. They also cover keeping customer lists, private campaign data and identifying images out of unapproved cloud tools. These are working checklists, not legal advice.

Is this course affiliated with Canva, OpenAI or Anthropic?

No. The course is independent and is not affiliated with or endorsed by Canva, OpenAI, Anthropic or any other company it mentions.

Canva Pro AI Intensive: supervised proactive agents for campaign preparation

$397

One payment · lifetime access

  • 10 self-paced lessons in 5 modules, about 20 hours
  • Build intake, copy, template, video-prep and checking agents in OpenAI Dots or Claude Duet
  • Remits, three action settings, a revision log, a video fix log and an export manifest you can reuse
  • A deliberate blocked-asset test, plus pause, resume and retire checks
  • An AI tutor you can type or talk to, with quizzes and flashcards for each lesson
  • Progress tracking and a certificate of completion

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