May 2025 Creative Campus UK & Europe Newsletter
- Gustavo Yamasaki
- Oct 9
- 5 min read
Updated: 18 hours ago
Welcome to the May edition of the UK Adobe Creative Campus Monthly Newsletter. This month, we are thrilled to be joined by many of you for the upcoming Adobe Education Institute (AEI) from 6–9 May (online). These interactive sessions are a great way to enhance your skills with Adobe Express and discover new ways to integrate it into your teaching and learning experiences. If you haven’t done so already, please register below!
The Adobe Skills Lab webinar series has also returned for another term, demonstrating how Adobe tools can positively impact teaching and learning. Additionally, we’ll explore the benefits of the Adobe Express Living CV program and delve into the importance of using AI responsibly. Read on to learn more.
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Registration Reminder!
It’s almost time! Join us for the Adobe Education Institute from Tuesday, 6–Friday, 9 May.
If you’re looking to develop your confidence with Adobe Express and learn ways to integrate it into your teaching and learning, these classes are for you. Through a series of live, hands-on training sessions, you’ll discover ways to simplify your workflows, deepen student engagement, and foster multi-modal teaching.
This event is exclusively available to Adobe Creative Campuses in Europe. Sessions are suitable for higher education staff and faculty.
Collaboration Event Recap
We recently had the pleasure of delivering the fourth UK Adobe Creative Campus Collaboration event, hosted by the University of the West of England. It was truly inspiring and brought the Adobe Creative Campus community together for a day of connection, collaboration, and inspiration. Together we explored creativity, digital fluency, and AI’s growing influence on education.
Throughout the day, we discussed strategies for helping students to engage more deeply in their learning journey. We also learned how Adobe Creative Campus institutions are utilising Adobe technologies to provide their students with high-demand skills that make them stand out to employers.
A huge thank you to everyone who attended and contributed — your insights made this event truly inspiring!
Adobe Skills Lab
The Adobe Skills Lab webinar series is back for a new term. Unlock the power of Adobe Express and learn how to impact your teaching and learning with tools for communication, collaboration, and creativity. We have the following sessions coming soon:
AI tips and tricks with Adobe Premiere ProThursday, 8 May, 14:00
Create your CV and digital portfolio with Adobe ExpressTuesday, 20 May, 11:00
Click here to register and view the full lineup or click here to catch up on past recordings.
Living CV with Adobe Express
As students approach graduation, they may find themselves wondering what skills they’ve developed throughout their time at university, and how to communicate this to future employers.The Living CV program is designed to help students track their progress and showcase their skills throughout their university journey. By graduation, students will have a comprehensive and up-to-date CV that reflects their academic and personal development.
What are the benefits?
Track progress: Enables students to keep a record of the skills and knowledge acquired throughout their studies.
Showcase growth: Students will be able to recognise and articulate the skills, knowledge, and experience that make them unique.
Career readiness: By the time students come to graduate, they will have a comprehensive and up-to-date CV that reflects their academic and personal development.
How does it work?
Students begin by creating their CV document in Adobe Express.
Students will be provided with a list of skills they’ve developed at the end of each module and be advised to update their Living CV accordingly.*
* Skills may be provided either as part of the end-of-module reflections or listed within their end-of-module evaluation emails.For more information, visit Living CV with Adobe Express. If you have any questions about how to use this resource, or if you would like to remix this webpage to tailor it to your institution, please contact your Adobe customer success manager.
Responsible Innovation in the Age of GenAI
You may have seen the recent social media trend of users turning themselves into action figures, complete with toy box packaging and superhero names, all thanks to AI. It's fun and creative, but it also raises important questions about copyright and ethical use. Many of these images borrow heavily from existing brands — using copyrighted logos, packaging designs, or character styles without permission.
As AI is becoming an increasingly integral part of our everyday life, understanding how to use AI ethically and responsibly is growing in importance.
Tools like Adobe Firefly are designed with transparency, accountability, and respect for creators’ rights from the ground up. Firefly is trained on licensed, public domain, or Adobe-owned content, compensates stock contributors, and is designed to be commercially safe.
Let’s have fun with AI, but also use it as an opportunity to lead by example — showing students how to explore these tools with both imagination and integrity.
For a fun, creative classroom activity (with an important learning opportunity), share this Adobe Express template with your students, and enable them to generate their own action figure using Adobe Express GenAI features (powered by Adobe Firefly).
Adobe Express Feature Updates
MERGE TABLE CELLS — FORMAT TABLES FOR CLEANER LAYOUTS
Add a table to your design from the ‘Charts and grids’ in the left panel.
Highlights the cells that you want to merge.
Click ‘more’ (three dots above the table).
Click ‘merge cells’.
REMIX WEBPAGES AND APPLY PASSWORD PROTECTION — CUSTOMISE AND REPURPOSE CONTENT WITH EASE
To allow others to remix/reuse your Adobe Express webpage content, open your webpage project (in editing mode, not via a published link).
Click ‘Share’ in the top-right corner.
Click ‘Publish to web’, or ‘Publish options’ if already published.
Toggle the option to ‘Allow others to remix’ and (re)publish.
From here, you can also apply password protection as needed.
Now when users visit this URL, they can view your webpage and will have the option to ‘Remix’. If someone remixes your webpage, this creates a new project for the user and will not affect your published design.
Adobe Express Useful Resources
The Adobe Customer Success Team has developed a series of short videos aimed at staff enablement. These videos focus on essential digital skills using Adobe Express and are designed to be both accessible and easy to use. Click here for more information or click here to request access.
For more Adobe Express and Adobe Creative Cloud updates and guidance, check out our Adobe Enterprise Resources Guide.
Adobe Express in Action
Respond to our question of the month:
What innovative projects have you or your students created using Adobe Express, and how have these projects enhanced your/their learning experience?
Click here to share your thoughts.
Share your use cases:
Are you using Adobe Express for your own work or as part of the student learning experience? Please let us know by filling out the form here, so we can highlight your work on our Adobe Express use case portfolio and continue to inspire our Adobe Creative Campus community.
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Best,
Adobe UK Higher Education Team
