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Design a carousel that actually teaches

Instagram carousels are the classroom of the feed — and most fail to teach anything. Design a 6-slide carousel with AI + Canva that explains something you genuinely understand, then prove it teaches: 3 real people must explain the idea back after one read.

AI-assisted DesignBusiness Communication

Posted by The AI Internships

The work brief

  1. 01Pick a topic you truly know (a payment method, a maths trick, or a sports rule people often get wrong) and define the ONE takeaway.
  2. 02Storyboard the 6 slides: hook → build the idea step by step → takeaway + save/share prompt. One idea per slide, big type.
  3. 03Design the slides with AI + Canva, keeping visual continuity (same palette/type across all 6).
  4. 04Comprehension-test: 3 real people read it once, then explain the idea back. Record what they got right and where they misunderstood — fix the worst slide.

What you’ll produce

4 deliverables

Submission standard

Submit all 6 slides in one image, the comprehension-test results, and the slide you fixed because of them, plus your AI workflow. Also submit the public Canva view-link to your carousel and a screenshot of your own editor showing your account name and today's date.

  • The topic and the ONE takeaway a reader must leave with

    Short answerRequired

  • All 6 slides in order, in one image

    Image uploadRequired

  • The 3 explain-it-back tests: what each person said, right and wrong

    For each of the 3 readers, record what they got right and wrong in their own words, and make sure the misunderstanding you describe points to the exact slide you fixed — generic or invented explain-backs fail.

    Written responseRequired

  • The slide you fixed after testing: what was misunderstood and what you changed

    Written responseRequired

You’ll complete these inside your private workspace.

What you must submit as proof

This brief requires evidence an AI can’t fabricate.

  • Public Canva view-link to your 6-slide carousel

    Canva 'Share > Anyone with the link can view'. Must open to YOUR editable carousel — a dead or private link fails.

    Public linkRequired

  • Screenshot of your OWN Canva editor building the slides — account name and today's date visible

    Show the live multi-slide canvas with your username and system date, not just the exported deck.

    Image uploadRequired

Submissions without this evidence cannot be submitted.

Protect other people in your proof. Blur faces, names, phone numbers and email addresses before you upload, and refer to anyone you worked with by role or number ("Listener 1", "the stall owner"). Your proof is only ever used to check your work — it is never published, never appears on your certificate, and is never shown in your public portfolio.

How your work is evaluated

The passing benchmark is 70/100.

Teaching structure

29%

The 6 slides build one idea cleanly — hook, steps, takeaway.

Comprehension proven

29%

Real people read it and their explain-backs are honestly recorded.

Visual continuity

14%

The slides read as one designed set, legible at phone size.

First-party provenance

29%

Auto-fail if the carousel has no live editable file, if the editor screenshot lacks account/date, or if the comprehension results read invented or do not reconcile with the slide that was fixed.

How we grade your AI usage

30% of your score

Using AI is the point — it’s the skill this certificate proves. You’ll answer three short questions about how you used it: what you asked, what was wrong with its first answer, and what you changed. Specific, honest answers score high. “I pasted the brief and submitted the answer” scores near zero.