Canva provides lots of templates for producing timelines. Within the templates trainees can embed videos, maps, photos, animations, and even include background audio. They can do those things with any of the timeline templates. In this short video I show how to develop a multimedia timeline in Canva..

Last week a reader emailed me trying to find a tip for making multimedia timelines with her middle school students. My typical tip of
Because her school use Office 365 and the kids cant access Google Sheets with school accounts, Timeline JS was ruled out. My other tip was to attempt using
Canva to develop multimedia timelines..

Applications for Education.
The good thing about having students use Canva to create multimedia timelines is that they can all utilize various designs and themes which separates some the “cookie cutter” nature of timeline tasks. The other thing thats great about using Canva to develop multimedia timelines is that students can collaborate online to develop timelines together.