Is your classroom in need of a splash of excitement? Want to jazz up those walls and infuse some pizzazz into your students' day?
Here’s how you can easily use Microsoft Designer’sDesign Creator feature to create classroom posters—whether it’s to liven up your space, inspire your students, or decorate for an event!
How to use Design Creator
To get started creating your poster, open the Designer home page and select Design Creator. We’re going to start with a 1080 x 1080px sizing format.
You’ll see that you have various options to choose from: Template, My Media, Visuals, Text, and Brand Kit. These options allow you to create a design using either media stored on your device, assets you’ve uploaded to your brand kit, or visuals from our AI generator.
For our first poster project, we will be focusing on the Template and Text functions.
First, we’ll select Templates and search for a “classroom poster.” The design creator will then give us various design ideas to choose from.
💡Tip: If you have a specific vision in mind, include more detail in your prompt to steer the AI. Some examples include:
- Create playful classroom posters to encourage learning. Use bright colors like blue, green, yellow, orange, and red. Incorporate fun images and motivational quotes.
- Create a motivational classroom poster that inspires students to achieve their goals.
- Create a set of funny classroom posters that will make learning fun and engaging. Make the poster stand out by using playful colors.
Once you find a design option you like, you can begin making edits or use the design as-is.
I changed the header from “Higher Education Day” to “You can do anything you put your mind to!” With the graduation image set as the background, this poster might give students the motivational push they need to do their best.
How to use Image Creator
Let’s say you want a poster that features bold graphics with minimal text. For this task, you may not need a fully customizable design from the design creator. See what Image Creatorwhips up instead.
To get started, navigate back to the Microsoft Designer home screen and select Image Creator.
In the text box, describe the image you want to create. Be as specific as you can.
(Find and edit the prompt I used here!)
Once your prompt is ready, click Generate and let Designer’s AI image generator work its magic.
By default, Image Creator will suggest one image that fits closely with the provided prompt.
If you love what the Image creator gave you, simply download the image and create your poster! If you want to edit your design instead, click Create Design and the tool will take you to the Design Creator for further editing.
If you’re not interested in the design that was generated, scroll down, and you will find a box called Explore more examples.
Select that. If you still don’t see any images you like, refine your prompt and try again.
For our current design, I love the lively chalkboard graphic Image Creator gave me. There’s just one problem, and I’m sure you’ve already spotted it: the text on the chalkboard is nonsense. AI image generators are getting better at rendering text, but they’re still hit or miss sometimes.
Not to worry! We can use erase feature to wipe our chalkboard clean.
Once the selection is erased, I can click on Text and write a new header: “Ms. Pamela’s Classroom.” I want the font to be in a handwritten style to match the chalkboard aesthetic.
Beautiful! We can now download the finished design in our preferred format.
Microsoft Designer is such an easy-to-use tool that even the busiest teachers can whip up an eclectic, student-approved project without wasting tons of planning time. And it’s totally free—just use your Microsoft account to log in or create one for free. It has never been easier or more fun to brighten up your classroom walls, so give it a try!
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