K-12 educators
Get students excited to learn. Empower them to imagine and design together—all in a fun, interactive space.
Figma’s design tools, free for education
Build practical skills as you design, prototype, collaborate, and take ideas from early exploration to polished work—all in one connected platform.
Verified students and educators get free access to Figma.
Collaborative tools for the classroom
Explore, design, and build on a shared canvas
Figma Design is a collaborative design tool used by 95% of the Fortune 500. Create graphics, design digital products, make presentations, and more—all with real-time feedback in a shared space.
Turn ideas into real apps
Eligible education users get full access to Figma’s AI toolkit, including Figma Make and AI-powered tools on the canvas. Explore ideas, move faster, and turn concepts into real digital experiences.
Work together in one space
FigJam is a digital whiteboard where students can brainstorm, test ideas, and work together in the same tool. Teachers can facilitate collaborative group learning while encouraging active participation from students.
Hands-on learning starts in Figma
Use industry-leading design tools to create a collaborative environment that helps students of all ages thrive in the classroom.
- Explore Figma for K-12
Higher education
Explore Figma for higher educationBring your ideas to life with flexible, easy-to-learn creative tools that build the skills you need to thrive in tech and design careers.
Professional features for every grade level
Generate prototypes with Figma design tools
With just a few prompts, students can make working apps in Figma, then directly edit on the canvas to customize the final version.
Illustrate designs with Figma Draw
Figma offers rich expressive design features, including vector editing, brushes, textures, fills, and shaders.
Animate on the canvas with Figma Motion
Create pro-level animations and interactions on the canvas—directly on the timeline or with Figma’s AI agent.
Professional features for every grade level
Create presentations with Figma Slides
Students work together to build decks in the same file where you give feedback, keeping projects collaborative.
Move easily between design and code
Figma Dev Mode and the MCP server bridge the gap between design and code, so students can turn designs into reality.
Build community in the classroom with FigJam
Pull from pre-made templates to create group activities, plan classroom periods, and encourage student collaboration.
Start your free Figma for Education account
Figma for Education offers access for both higher ed programs and eligible K-12 schools. Choose the path that best fits your education profile.
Education plan FAQ
Figma offers 2 ways of accessing our tools, depending on the age of your students.
1. Teachers and students over 13 years old can get started on their own by signing up for our free Education Plan at Figma.com/education/apply, verifying their education status, and creating an Education team. Review our step-by-step instructions here. This will give you free access to the Figma Professional tier.
To qualify for the self-serve Education Plan, you must be
- A student or educator in a structured classroom
- Classrooms are defined as virtual or in-person educational programs. Some examples are:
- High schools, universities, post-graduate institutions, trade schools, polytechnics, or colleges
- Online courses, bootcamps or workshops
- Design and coding academies
2. If you want to use Figma with students under 13 years old, your school must reach out to us and sign our terms for schools. This will give you free access to the Figma Enterprise tier. You can get this process started by filling out this form.
- Attend a live training: You can sign up for one of our bi-weekly live training sessions. We can also host a free training/PD session at your school anytime – reach out to us at [email protected] to schedule.
- Review our video tutorials: Get started on your own with our YouTube playlist of tutorials.
- Explore our Learning Library. Review this 3-part mini course to learn the basics of FigJam’s tools, how to design an effective lesson and all the ways to share files with students.
- Bookmark the education template library. Every week, we work with educators in the Figma community to add new, ready-made FigJam templates to our education library.
Figma & FigJam are 100% free for students, educators and schools. No freemium or hidden upgrades, ever.
- K12 districts qualify for free access to the Enterprise tier.
- Higher education institutions and bootcamps qualify for free access to the Professional tier.
If you or any of your education customers have questions, please reach out to [email protected]. We are happy to help!
Yes! Admins can manage and deploy Figma licenses from within the Google Admin Console using the App Licensing System. This takes about 5 minutes to set up once you fill out this form.
You can also install the FigJam Classroom Add-on to seamlessly integrate FigJam into Google Classroom.
Yes! Admins can manage and deploy Figma licenses with Microsoft Education. They will be able to use SAML SSO to automatically provision a licenses to each student and educator in their domain. You can get started by filling out this form.
Yes, Figma and FigJam have hundreds of free templates to help you get started quickly. Check out figma.com/@education and figma.com/@k12education for classroom templates and lesson plans.
United States
Figma offers 2 ways of accessing our tools, depending on the age of your students.
1. Teachers and students >13 years old can get started on their own by signing up at Figma.com/education/apply, verifying their education status, and creating an Education team. This model is not intended for accessing Figma with students under 13 years old.
2. If you want to use Figma with students under 13 years old, your school must reach out to us and sign our terms for schools. You can get this process started by filling out this form.
United Kingdom
Figma may only be used by students above the age of consent. If you would like to use Figma with students of all ages, your school must reach out to us and sign our terms for schools. You can get this process started by filling out this form.
Japan
Figma may only be used by students above the age of consent. If you would like to use Figma with students of all ages, your school must reach out to us and sign our terms for schools. You can get this process started by filling out this form.
Internationally
Figma may only be used by students above the age of consent in their jurisdiction. We are always looking to expand access to Figma, so if you want to use Figma with your students, please let us know by reaching out to us at [email protected]!
At Figma our mission is to make design accessible to everyone. We are committed to achieving that goal in a way that safeguards and protects the privacy of our users. Figma only requires minimal, non-sensitive personal data to use the Figma platform. The only personal data needed is an email address, which we use to enable the account login function for our user, and a name. Figma users can also add to their Figma account profile by uploading a profile photo or adding a job title, but this information is completely optional and not required to use the Figma platform. Figma also offers several (optional) forms of multifactor authentication, one version of which, if chosen, requires the user to input their phone number for SMS identity verification. No sensitive personal information is permitted on the Figma platform. School administrators can become administrators of their school’s Figma instance, where they can view and manage all users in their Figma instance. Figma is hosted on servers in the United States.
Figma is hosted on servers in the United States.
Figma will delete your personal data within 30 days of your request. This does not apply to archival or back-up copies of such data, which will be deleted in accordance with Figma’s data retention schedule. If Figma is required to retain personal data, in archives or otherwise, to comply with applicable laws it will separate and protect that data from any further data processing.