Welcome to the May edition of the Adobe Higher Education newsletter!
- May 15
- 3 min read
Dive in for actionable ideas, upcoming events, and tips and tricks designed to empower your work in today's evolving higher education landscape.
Faculty and staff PD events
Register before May 18 : Adobe Education Institute starts soon!
The Adobe Education Institute is just around the corner: 18–21 May. You can still register and catch sessions on enhancing your creativity and productivity across higher-ed workflows with Adobe Express and Adobe Acrobat.
Register today to secure your spot — and you can watch live and also get access to all session recordings.
Adobe Express Tips and Tricks
This session is all about shortcuts and clever workflows. Discover time-saving tips, hidden features, and smart design tricks to help you create polished content quickly.
Wednesday, 27 May
12:30 AEST | 3:30 NZ | 10:30am SGT
Digital Academy Job Essentials
Set yourself and your students up for the job market with practical digital skills employers notice. We’ll cover how to use Adobe tools to create clean CVs, tailored cover letters, personal websites, and professional-looking social content. You’ll walk away with a clearer idea of how to present your work and yourself online.
Wednesday, 10 June
12:30 AEST | 3:30 NZ | 10:30am SGT
Growing Student Success through Story, Identity, and Design at Western Sydney University
Thursday, 27 May, 2026
11am ICT | 12pm SGT | 2pm SYD | 4pm NZ
Get an inside look at how Western Sydney University is redesigning the first-year experience using reflection, identity-building, and digital storytelling.
See how the Learning Experience team and faculty use a Digital Storytelling Activity Guide to support thousands of new students, and discover the reflective framework that strengthens belonging, confidence, and well-being.
Leave with practical ideas and a ready-to-use learning module you can adapt to spark student-centered innovation on your campus.
Can't make it? Register anyway to receive access to the recording.
What's new?
Adobe Express has a new look.
You might have noticed that the look of Adobe Express has changed. We’re excited to share some fantastic updates to the Adobe Express experience — all designed with simplicity and speed in mind.
Based on customer feedback, we've streamlined the interface to help you create faster and with less friction. The navigation has been simplified, search is now front and center, Action Cards have been redesigned for clarity, and templates are easier to browse. These changes reflect a cleaner foundation we'll continue to build on, so the best is still to come. See what changed and why.
We’d love to hear what you think. To provide feedback and offer suggestions from within Adobe Express, click the flask icon on the home page.
Concerned about PDF accessibility at your institution?
Our API, brought to you in partnership with The Ohio State University Libraries, Arizona State University Artificial Intelligence Cloud Innovation Center, and Amazon Web Services, makes it easy to scale PDF accessibility. Auto-tag content more accurately with the API and ensure that every document is easy to navigate when accessed with screen readers and other reading devices.
Key benefits include improving accessibility of PDF backlogs, remediating PDFs at scale, and moving toward compliance with greater ease.
Adobe Acrobat Pro accessibility resources
Join our brand-new Higher Education Faculty Community.
Connect with higher education peers around the world, collaborate on ideas and resources you can bring back to your campus, and accelerate instructional innovation with a network that helps you try new approaches faster and with more support.
Adobe Express feature spotlight
Create images with AI.
Get step-by-step help using generative AI to create and edit images in Adobe Express and see how to download and use those images in your work.
Generate similar images.
Find out how to create a new image using the style of an existing image with the Generate Similar feature.
Create social media clips.
Learn how to turn long-form videos into engaging short clips for social media with the Clip Maker feature.
Explore the latest features across your favorite Adobe tools.
Useful Resources
Adobe Higher Education Customer Hub | Use Case Portfolio | Adobe HED LinkedIn Community | Adobe Learn
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Best regards,
The APAC Higher Education Education team
