Adobe Education Institute North America 2026
Nov 3–5, 2026
Join us for a virtual, hands-on training session to enable faculty and staff to streamline campus workflows, enhance teaching and learning, and build confidence with Adobe tools. Open to all faculty and staff at Adobe partner institutions.
These events and their on-demand recordings will include closed captioning. The transcripts will be available for download post-event.
Pathway 1:
Empowered Workflows with AI in Adobe Acrobat
Nov 3, 11am EST
Everyday PDF Confidence with Adobe Acrobat
This session introduces core Acrobat tools that save time every day. Explore practical ways to create, organize, and reuse PDFs across common workflows, including working with documents and moving content into Adobe Express. You’ll leave better equipped to handle everyday PDF tasks with speed, clarity, and purpose.
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Nov 3, 1pm EST
Unlock Smarter Document Workflows with AI in Adobe Acrobat: Your AI-powered Document Workspace
Discover how the document workspace in Acrobat simplifies the way you create, edit, organize, and collaborate while unlocking the power of AI to help you save time and work smarter. In this hands-on session, you'll explore core PDF workflows, build a PDF Space to organize your documents, and see how Acrobat AI Assistant can summarize content, surface insights, and answer questions. You'll also learn to create polished, accessible documents, share files securely, and move content into Adobe Express for continued creation.
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Nov 3, 3pm EST
Transforming Documents into Deliverables with Adobe Acrobat AI Assistant
Discover how Acrobat AI Assistant helps you turn complex documents into actionable deliverables. In this hands-on session, you’ll explore how Acrobat AI Assistant analyzes documents, provides cited responses to help you quickly verify information, compares files, and extracts key insights to accelerate decision-making. You'll also discover how to transform those insights into polished communications, presentations, and career materials using Adobe Express.
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Pathway 2:
Adobe Express Foundations
Adobe Education Institute North America 2026
Join us for a virtual, hands-on training session to enable faculty and staff to streamline campus workflows, enhance teaching and learning, and build confidence with Adobe tools. Open to all faculty and staff at Adobe partner institutions.
These events and their on-demand recordings will include closed captioning. The transcripts will be available for download post-event.
Learning Path 1: Adobe Express Foundation
Nov 3, 11am EST
Everyday PDF Confidence with Adobe Acrobat
This session introduces core Acrobat tools that save time every day. Explore practical ways to create, organize, and reuse PDFs across common workflows, including working with documents and moving content into Adobe Express. You’ll leave better equipped to handle everyday PDF tasks with speed, clarity, and purpose.
Nov 3, 1pm EST
Unlock Smarter Document Workflows with AI in Adobe Acrobat: Your AI-powered Document Workspace
Discover how the document workspace in Acrobat simplifies the way you create, edit, organize, and collaborate while unlocking the power of AI to help you save time and work smarter. In this hands-on session, you'll explore core PDF workflows, build a PDF Space to organize your documents, and see how Acrobat AI Assistant can summarize content, surface insights, and answer questions. You'll also learn to create polished, accessible documents, share files securely, and move content into Adobe Express for continued creation.
Nov 3, 3pm EST
Transforming Documents into Deliverables with Adobe Acrobat AI Assistant
Discover how Acrobat AI Assistant helps you turn complex documents into actionable deliverables. In this hands-on session, you’ll explore how Acrobat AI Assistant analyzes documents, provides cited responses to help you quickly verify information, compares files, and extracts key insights to accelerate decision-making. You'll also discover how to transform those insights into polished communications, presentations, and career materials using Adobe Express.
Learning Path 2: Advanced Adobe Express
Nov 4, 11am EST
Explore how Adobe Express for Education helps you create compelling content for teaching, communication, and collaboration. Learn how to combine visuals, multimedia, and web-based experiences to present ideas, organize information, and engage students in meaningful ways.
Your Creative Teaching Toolkit
Nov 4, 1pm EST
Learn how to create polished short-form videos in Adobe Express to enhance teaching, communication, and storytelling across higher education. Explore easy-to-use editing tools and discover how to create announcements, instructional content, student projects, training materials, and departmental communications that engage your audiences.
Bring Your Ideas to Life with Video
Nov 4, 3pm EST
Create engaging, easy-to-navigate web pages in Adobe Express. Discover practical design strategies for sharing course materials, resources, event information, and campus communications that are clear, accessible, and visually compelling.
Build Web Pages for Courses, Programs, and Events
Nov 4, 11am EST
Explore how Adobe Express for Education helps you create compelling content for teaching, communication, and collaboration. Learn how to combine visuals, multimedia, and web-based experiences to present ideas, organize information, and engage students in meaningful ways.
Your Creative Teaching Toolkit
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Nov 4, 1pm EST
Learn how to create polished short-form videos in Adobe Express to enhance teaching, communication, and storytelling across higher education. Explore easy-to-use editing tools and discover how to create announcements, instructional content, student projects, training materials, and departmental communications that engage your audiences.
Bring Your Ideas to Life with Video
View speakers →
Nov 4, 3pm EST
Create engaging, easy-to-navigate web pages in Adobe Express. Discover practical design strategies for sharing course materials, resources, event information, and campus communications that are clear, accessible, and visually compelling.
Build Web Pages for Courses, Programs, and Events
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Pathway 3:
Adobe Creative Cloud Pro for Education
Nov 5, 11am EST
Learn visual ideation and storyboarding on the infinite canvas in Firefly Boards. Organize inspirations and explore multiple creative directions before production. Rapidly test styles, colors, and compositions across a variety of AI models to refine your ideas, compare alternatives, and build stronger creative solutions.
Ideate Faster with Adobe Firefly Boards
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Nov 5, 1pm EST
Discover how AI can enhance, not replace, the creative process by combining Firefly with Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop in real-world design workflows. Learn when to choose vector versus pixel-based editing, how to iterate rapidly, and how to use generative AI to accelerate exploration while keeping creative control.
Design Smarter with Creative Cloud and Firefly
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Nov 5, 3pm EST
Explore how professional creators use Adobe Firefly and Premiere together to accelerate every stage of video production, from concept to final edit. Through hands-on activities, you’ll learn to generate creative assets, enhance footage, and speed up editing without sacrificing creative control.
From Storyboard to Screen with Adobe Premiere and Firefly
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Learning Path 3: Empowered Workflows with Adobe Acrobat
Nov 5, 11am EST
Learn visual ideation and storyboarding on the infinite canvas in Firefly Boards. Organize inspirations and explore multiple creative directions before production. Rapidly test styles, colors, and compositions across a variety of AI models to refine your ideas, compare alternatives, and build stronger creative solutions.
Ideate Faster with Adobe Firefly Boards
Nov 5, 1pm EST
Discover how AI can enhance, not replace, the creative process by combining Firefly with Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop in real-world design workflows. Learn when to choose vector versus pixel-based editing, how to iterate rapidly, and how to use generative AI to accelerate exploration while keeping creative control.
Design Smarter with Creative Cloud and Firefly
Nov 5, 3pm EST
Explore how professional creators use Adobe Firefly and Premiere together to accelerate every stage of video production, from concept to final edit. Through hands-on activities, you’ll learn to generate creative assets, enhance footage, and speed up editing without sacrificing creative control.
From Storyboard to Screen with Adobe Premiere and Firefly
Upcoming events
Is your institution still navigating AI hesitancy while others surge ahead? In this on-demand session, Adobe and Justin Hodgson from Indiana University explored how institutions can move beyond the “should we?” and into the “how do we excel?”
This isn't another conversation about AI's risks and rewards. This is your strategic roadmap for building an AI-empowered campus - where faculty, students, and staff don't just use AI, they thrive with it.
We heard from leaders who are getting it right:
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CIO Vision: Strategic leadership insights on positioning your institution at the forefront of the AI-forward movement
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Center Director: Campus-wide approaches to building AI literacy and enabling confident adoption across diverse departments
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Faculty Perspective: Real-world strategies for responsible AI integration in curriculum and classroom practice
Whether you're just beginning your AI journey or looking to accelerate your institution's transformation, with this on-demand webinar you'll gain practical insights, example frameworks, proven strategies, and the confidence to become a critical part of your institution’s AI-empowered future.
Stop hesitating. Start empowering.
All on-demands include closed captioning.-
Kendra Ketchum
Vice President for Information Technology & Chief Information Officer, Indiana University.
Dr. Justin Hodgson
Associate Professor of Digital Rhetoric & Director Digital Gardener Initiative, Indiana University.
"I frequently lead trainings on Express, and I'm glad to see how much it's grown over the years and excited to see where it goes!"
Beth Lynn Nolen
Senior IT Training Specialist, Indiana University – AEI 2026
"My biggest takeaway was learning many skills from experienced educators. They showed me how to use Adobe Express and feel confident about it."
Nathalie Roussel
Educator – AEI 2026
"Creativity is no longer just an added feature in education. It is now an essential skill that helps students think critically, communicate ideas, and produce meaningful work using digital tools."
Dr. Junerey Baladhay
Faculty, School of Management & IT – AEI 2026
Hear from past AEI attendees:
Badges and certifications
AEI Session Badge
Earn a badge for every session you complete live or on demand. No portfolio needed.
AEI Pathway Badge
Complete all three (3) sessions of an AEI learning path live or on demand. No portfolio needed.
AEI 2026 Influencer Badge
Complete at least six (6) AEI sessions live or on demand AND submit a portfolio of work created in Adobe Express.
AEI Session Badge
Earn a badge for every session you completed live or on demand.
No portfolio needed.
Don’t miss your chance to earn your badges!
AEI Pathway Badge
Complete all three (3) sessions of an AEI learning path live or on demand.
No portfolio needed.
"Presenting my project live on Adobe in front of 200+ educators was nerve-wracking! After a 4-day Adobe Education Institute course on Adobe Express, my lesson roadmap was selected and reviewed live. Speaking up on camera in English was scary—but the trainers’ feedback was incredibly kind and helpful.
Huge thanks to Adobe Education Institute for such an inspiring experience!"
Simon Quémard
AEI 2025 Attendee/Participant
AEI 2026 Influencer Badge
Complete at least six (6) AEI sessions live or on demand AND submit a portfolio of work created in Adobe Express.
"AEI is how I started and it was fantastic! I learnt so much...and got some lovely badges!"
Nina Jones
AEI 2025 Attendee/Participant
Frequently asked questions
Adobe Express Student Academy
The Adobe Student Academy is a free, online program designed to help students build creative confidence and digital skills through short, hands‑on workshops using Adobe Express. It offers practical, beginner‑friendly sessions - from personal branding to short videos - giving learners a space to experiment, create, and enhance their academic and personal projects. Join live or on‑demand and earn badges for sessions you attend live.
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Adobe Express is the all-in-one, quick-and-easy content creation app designed to help students of all disciplines stand out in class, on campus, and in their careers —and it’s included with all Adobe Creative Cloud plans.
