Welcome to the August edition of the Adobe Higher Education newsletter.
- 7 days ago
- 4 min read
Summer breaks offer valuable opportunities for reflection, goal setting, and knowledge sharing. As you gear up for the new academic year, we encourage you to take advantage of this period to explore the tools and resources your institution offers and set yourself up for success.
This edition is all about getting a strong start: helping graduating students take their work with them, refreshing your on-campus assets, catching up on Adobe Education Institute training on demand, and — for IT teams — making sure licences are ready before Welcome Week. Whether you're a faculty member, staff member, or student, there's something here to help you hit the ground running.
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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.
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?
Adobe Marketing Asset Portal
Before students return, 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, Adobe Creative Cloud, and Badging program offers. Download posters, promo cards, flyers, and more. (Welsh language assets now available!)
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 students of their access — including via email, newsletters, and social media — and grab ready-to-go templates to make it easy.
Build your skills with AEI on demand.
Missed a live Adobe Education Institute (AEI) session, or want to revisit one before term starts? The Adobe Education Institute on-demand hub lets you watch sessions anytime and upskill over summer at your own pace.
Session spotlight: Explore what Adobe Express for Education can do for you
This session introduces Adobe Express for Education and how it supports creative and engaging communication across higher education settings. Participants explore how visual, multimedia, and web-based content can be used to share information, present ideas, and organise materials in accessible, impactful ways.
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.
Licence deployment reminder
Please ensure that licences have been assigned to students via the Adobe Admin Console ahead of Welcome Week. 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.
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Best regards,
The Adobe EMEA Higher Education team
