Along with Mathematics Education students, Universitas Muhammadiyah Metro (UM Metro) lecturers provided promotional design training. It aimed to promote enterprises through Canva (an application) for the Micro Small and Medium Enterprise (MSME) owners in Pasar Kreatif Rejomulyo Tangguh (PAK RT).

As facilitators of the training, Nurul Farida, MPd led the training as the chairwoman with her colleagues, Dr. Dwi Rahmawati, M.Pd; Ira Vahlia, M.Pd; Satrio Wicaksono, M.Pd; Nego Linuhung, M.Pd and five students from Mathematics department, UM Metro.

The training was organized from September to October, located in PAK RT, Rejomulyo, South Metro. It was followed by 15 participants, including the PAK RT members, the boards, and surrounding merchants. Suparmo, the chairman of PAK RT invited all MSME owners to motivate themselves in increasing their ability and skills to design promotion. “I have a high expectation for MSME owners to create their promotional design,” he said.

On the socialization, Nurul Farida, M.Pd delivered her materials on how to design the product and service promotion informatively and attractively. Nurul Farida also mentioned that to design through Canva, they should download the application first, and sign up by email. All designs could be created for free.

The speaker also explained the steps to create the promotional design by introducing every feature in the application. The participants who followed the training were highly enthusiastic. It was illustrated by how they kept focusing on the materials and actively discussing the promotion topic. They also directly applied every step in their mobile phones to practice themselves. In the end, every participant had their design to promote their products and service based on their creativity.