Welcome to the August edition of the Adobe Higher Education newsletter!
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August marks a moment of transition across our region — the final countdown to a new academic year for some, and the halfway mark for others. Wherever you sit in the calendar, it's a great moment to pause, reflect, reset, and set yourself up for success.
This edition helps you do just that: supporting graduating students with asset migration, supporting current students and faculty with upcoming events and new resources, refreshing your on-campus assets, and — for IT teams — making sure licences are ready before students return. Whether you're a faculty member or staff member, there's something here to help you hit the ground running.
Customer Spotlight: Bath Spa University
From a Living CV to the Skills Canvas
Great ideas travel. The Living CV, a Creative Campus concept for helping students build career-ready portfolios, was adapted at Bath Spa University and has grown into something bigger.
Tim Beale and Bath Spa's Careers and Employability team created Skills Canvas: A Living CV, a curriculum-embedded toolkit built in Adobe Express. Woven into taught modules from Level 4 onwards, it prompts students to reflect on and evidence the skills they develop — and to articulate them confidently to employers.
The initiative has now been published in Bath Spa's Learning Innovation journal and is rolling out further across the university.
As Tim puts it: "Early trials of the Skills Canvas have generated extremely positive feedback and represent one of the first steps in creating a wider suite of skills development tools for BSU staff and students."
It’s a brilliant example of how a shared idea, adapted locally, can grow into real institutional impact.
Want to bring the Living CV to your own campus? Explore the ready-to-use program and remix it for yourself or your students.
Upcoming events
Help your students build future-ready creative skills.
We’re excited to announce that the Adobe Student Academy (ASA) is coming to APAC for the first time!
Looking for a simple way to help students build confidence with digital communication and creative problem-solving? Encourage them to join the Adobe Student Academy.
This free online series includes hands-on workshops run by students, for students. The key aim is to help all students get more from Adobe tools while building practical skills they can apply to assessments, presentations, portfolios, and beyond — no matter what they’re studying. Students who complete the sessions will also earn Adobe digital badges to showcase their achievements.
Encourage your students to register and start building the creative skills that will help them stand out, both at university and in their future careers.
Share the event page with students today.
AEI Labs are back!
Adobe Express: The ultimate toolkit
Thursday August 20
12:30pm – 1:30pm AEST | 10:30am – 11:30am SGT | 2:30pm – 3:30pm NZ
Interested in Adobe Express? We'll walk through some of the basics and a few nifty new features: templates, quick edits, and how to knock out some content in minutes. Bring a laptop and leave with a bag of new tricks.
From Slides to Animation: Adobe makes it easy
Thursday August 27
12:30pm – 1:30pm AEST | 10:30am – 11:30am SGT | 2:30pm – 3:30pm NZ
Hosted by RMIT's own Dr. Charmaine Lloyd, Senior Lecturer, Microbiology School of Science, and Matteo Curcio, Adobe Coach, this session shows how to use Adobe Express and Character Animator to turn text-heavy or technical material into short animations with voiceover. Join Charmaine and Matteo to see how this approach was used to teach immunology, replacing a standard slide deck with student-made animated explainers.
Timely resources
The Adobe Student Hub has landed.
Explore our one-stop hub for Adobe student opportunities, learning, and resources. Students can stay up to date with upcoming events; earn industry-recognised Adobe badges through Adobe Digital Academy; connect with a global community of fellow Adobe learners; and access quick-start guides to build their creative, digital, and AI skills. Whether students are completing assignments, building digital portfolios, or preparing for their future careers, they'll find everything they need to get started.
Share the Hub with your students today.
Help students take their creative work with them.
It's easy for graduating students to copy their Adobe files from school-assigned accounts to new or existing Adobe personal accounts. With the Student File Transfer feature, they'll get ongoing access to their work so they can showcase it to future employers. Learn more and use our email templates to inform students of this great benefit.
Adobe Marketing Asset Portal
Before students return, whether for a new academic year or the start of Semester 2, take a moment to refresh the ways your community hears about Adobe access on campus. Adobe provides free resources to encourage software downloads and promote your institution’s Adobe Express, Creative Cloud, and Badging program offers. Download posters, promo cards, flyers, and more.
On-campus branding refresh: Order and download free, customisable materials to raise awareness of staff and student access.
Review staff and student communications: Consider how you'll inform new and returning students of their access — including via email, newsletters, and social media — and grab ready-to-go templates to make it easy.
Licence deployment reminder
Before students return, please ensure that licences have been assigned to them via the Adobe Admin Console. Visit the Adobe Education Deployment Guide for support. If you need further assistance, you can submit a support ticket via the admin console or reach out to your Adobe Customer Success Manager.
See what's new in Adobe Express.
Use layout guides presets.
Quickly apply professional guide grids with preset layouts for consistent designs.
View analytics for custom templates.
Access template performance metrics at a glance. See how your custom templates are being used across your organisation.
Extract audio from video.
Extract an audio track from a video to edit the audio separately from the video.
Effortlessly manage your fonts.
Find the fonts you need faster with an enhanced Font Browser. Apply specific filters, organise into libraries that sync across your Adobe apps, and browse all your fonts in one place.
Fast-track how you mask.
Say hello to new Object Mask in Premiere (beta) and goodbye to hours of painful rotoscoping. Just hover and click, and AI will accurately mask and track.
Jump-start creative ideas with Firefly Boards.
Visualise ideas with new Firefly Boards, the generative AI-first approach to moodboarding.
Explore the latest features across your favourite Adobe tools.
Useful resources
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 Adobe APAC Higher Education team
