Welcome to the October edition of the Adobe Higher Education Newsletter.
This month we’re highlighting a jam-packed calendar of events, including the return of the Adobe Education Institute (AEI) and Adobe Student Academy. These live, interactive workshops will help you and your students build your knowledge and skills, and they’ll transform your teaching and learning experiences. Be sure to register, and check out the new AEI Lab webinars that are coming soon.
You’ll also learn how to create a custom Adobe Express home page experience for your institution, and you’ll discover some exciting new features to explore. And if you haven’t already, be sure to join the Higher Education Faculty Community.
Adobe Education Institute is back! Join us 23-25 November.
Looking for fresh ideas to enhance teaching, engage students, streamline workflows, or support innovation across your institution? Join us this November for the Adobe Education Institute (AEI), a free professional learning event designed for the entire higher education community, including faculty, instructional designers, librarians, student support professionals, marketing and communications teams, IT staff, and campus leaders.
AEI brings together educators and higher education experts to share practical strategies, innovative use cases, and real-world success stories that can help you create more engaging learning experiences and foster essential digital skills across campus.
Can't attend live? Register anyway. Everyone who registers will receive access to the session recordings and resources after the event, so you can learn on your own schedule and revisit sessions whenever it's convenient.
Whether you're teaching in the classroom, supporting students behind the scenes, leading campus initiatives, or helping drive institutional transformation, you'll walk away with ideas you can put to work immediately.
Register today to secure access to all live and on-demand Adobe Education Institute content and join a growing community of higher education professionals shaping the future of learning.
Check out our upcoming AEI Labs.
What's New in Creative Cloud Pro: AI-Powered Creativity for Higher Education
2 November 2026
What's New in Creative Cloud Pro: AI-Powered Creativity for Higher Education
2 November 2026
Adobe Student Academy returns 2-3 December.
The Adobe Student Academy is back with new sessions! This free programme helps students build digital, creative, and career-ready skills using Adobe tools. They’ll leave with stronger portfolios, personal branding, and LinkedIn-ready digital badges for each session attended.
Have students register now and feel free to utilise our marketing assets in your outreach to students.
Customise the Adobe Express home page experience for your institution.
The Custom Home feature in Adobe Express allows you to personalise the home page experience for your institution.
Key features:
Featured branded banners: Display your institutional logos and tailored gradients on your institution’s home page.
Instant template access: Discover pin-approved, on-brand templates your team can find and use right away.
Brand asset integration: Keep brand kits, fonts, and logos visible and accessible in one unified space.
Join our Higher Education Faculty Community.
The best ideas in higher ed rarely come from a single campus — they come from comparing notes with someone facing the same challenge a continent away. Join them, and you'll trade notes on what's actually working, gather resources you can bring back to your campus, and move faster on the kind of instructional innovation that's hard to do alone.
Join your creative peers at Adobe MAX.
Nothing compares to the energy and inspiration that happens when creatives come together at Adobe MAX. Join us for this unmatched opportunity to develop your professional skills and learn about new Adobe tools and features.
Can’t make it to Miami? Tune in online 10-11 November, and you can still benefit from all the learning and inspiration in sessions, keynotes, and Sneaks.
What's new?
Generate web pages.
Create a fully designed web page from a simple text prompt, all without leaving Adobe Express.
Run brand checks.
Run brand checks to review your design’s logos, colours, and fonts and ensure that they’re brand-compliant.
Assign custom roles.
Now admins can manage their organisations in Manager Hub, which adjusts to show only the actions each person's role allows.
Create a personalised invitation.
Design an invitation, create an event link, and invite your guests. Then track RSVPs as they come in.
Generate music with Adobe Firefly.
The Generate Music feature analyses your video and creates customised, emotionally rich compositions that match your story. Tracks are licensed to use anywhere.
Generate speech with Adobe Firefly.
Generate AI voices for podcasts, video and audio ads, course videos, YouTube scripts, audiobooks, phone systems, sales scripts, and more.
You're invited to the Higher Education Roadshow.
Join Adobe on the 2026 Higher Education Roadshow. Designed for faculty and staff, these free, hands-on workshops will help you discover practical ways to boost productivity, enhance teaching and learning, and prepare students for an AI-powered future with Adobe solutions.
The day is split into two focused sessions: a morning workshop on productivity with Acrobat Studio and an afternoon session exploring creativity and AI-powered workflows with Creative Cloud Pro Plus and Adobe Firefly. Attend one session or stay for the full day. Lunch is included.
Demo licences are provided for hands-on learning, and you'll have opportunities to connect with peers from other institutions. Space is limited, so register early to secure your place.
Build your skills in our bootcamp.
The Adobe Educator Bootcamp is a free training series designed specifically for educators who teach Creative Cloud classes. Whether you're looking to sharpen your own skills, discover new classroom ideas, or stay current with the latest Adobe tools, there are multiple courses to choose from throughout the year.
Courses cover a range of Adobe applications, including Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere, After Effects, InDesign, Acrobat, Adobe Express, and Firefly.
Explore the latest features across your favourite Adobe tools.
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