Welcome to the April edition of the Adobe Higher Education newsletter!
- Apr 15
- 3 min read
Welcome to the April edition of the Adobe Higher Education newsletter. Dive in for actionable ideas, upcoming events, and tips and tricks designed to empower your work in today's evolving higher education landscape.
Adobe Education Institute | May 18–21 | Online
Free virtual skill-building sessions for academic and professional staff.
Looking to build or strengthen your digital skills? The Adobe Education Institute (AEI) is a virtual, hands-on learning experience designed for higher education faculty and staff.
Whatever your role, AEI offers practical strategies to help you streamline processes, enhance engagement, and build confidence using Adobe Acrobat and Adobe Express.
Share across campus! Get promotional assets to share the news with your faculty and staff.
Academic Innovation Café
Student success increasingly depends on transforming the higher education experience - starting even before students arrive on campus.
Creativity + AI: Rethinking assessment at Bond University
Wednesday, April 29, 2026
8am ICT | 9am SGT | 11am SYD | 1pm NZ
See how Bond University is redefining assessment for the AI era, making it creative, cross-disciplinary, and built for real-world impact.
The institution’s award-winning Collaboration for Global Change course (2025 Green Gown Awards Australasia) is setting a new benchmark for sustainability education.
Hear from the course designer and get bold, practical ideas to help you reimagine assessment for your own courses.
Can't make it? Register anyway to get access to the recording.
Upcoming AEI labs
Join our monthly 45-minute sessions for deep-dive explorations into creative workflows and tools. Here’s what’s next:
Sneak Peek: Acrobat Studio for Education
Wednesday, April 29
12.30 AEST | 3.30 NZ | 10.30 am SGT
Get an inside look at Acrobat Studio and how it fits into your everyday academic life. We’ll demo how you can collaborate on PDFs, add rich media, streamline feedback and approvals, and connect your documents with your creative work. This is your chance to see what’s coming and how it can simplify study and teaching workflows.
Be Heard: Podcast Like a Pro
Wednesday, May 13
12.30 AEST | 3.30 NZ | 10.30 am SGT
Whether it’s for flipped learning, a class project, student media, or your own passion project, podcasting is one of the most powerful ways to share your voice. Learn how to plan an episode, capture clean audio, edit quickly, and package your show with strong cover art and promo assets using Adobe tools. No studio experience required.
Teaching and learning resources
Adobe Express in action
Looking for fresh ideas to enhance teaching, learning, and student engagement? Explore the Adobe Higher Education Use Case Portfolio — a centralised hub highlighting real-world examples of how universities are using Adobe Express across campus. Discover practical, replicable ideas from peer institutions and get inspired to scale creative impact in your own courses, programs, or initiatives.
Have a great story to share? We’d love to feature it. If you’re using Adobe Express in a unique or impactful way on campus, submit your example to help inspire your peers across higher education.
Higher education faculty community launch
Adobe is launching a new community designed to connect higher education professionals across the globe, spark collaboration, and support meaningful instructional innovation. Registration is now open!
Adobe student file transfer
Now your students and recent graduates can easily copy their Adobe files from school-assigned accounts to new or existing Adobe personal accounts. By using the Student File Transfer feature, they’ll have ongoing access to their files so they can showcase their work to future employers. Learn more about the feature, and use our email templates to inform students about this great benefit.
Adobe Express feature spotlight
Import PDFs with tables.
Import PDFs with tables, retain the original structure, and edit in Adobe Express.
Generate captions automatically.
Easily boost video engagement with captions that you can generate, edit, and style in seconds.
Generate polished presentations.
Go from idea to slides in minutes with the Generate Presentation feature.
Explore the latest features across your favorite Adobe tools
Useful resources
Use Case Portfolio › (Adobe Express in Higher Education)
Newsletter Archives
Our new newsletter hub includes our latest edition along with past issues. Add the following link to your institution’s Adobe website to keep everyone up to date.
Best regards,
The Asia-Pacific Higher Education team
