September 2024 Creative Campus UK & Europe Newsletter

Welcome to the September edition of the Adobe Creative Campus newsletter! As we transition into the new academic year, we have a wealth of exciting updates and resources to share with you. This month, we’re thrilled to introduce our new Adobe Learn platform, packed with innovative features to enhance your students’ learning experiences. Additionally, we’re excited to highlight new professional development resources, inspired by the annual Adobe Education Institute.

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See you in September!

We are thrilled to announce that we will be visiting our UK Adobe Creative Campuses throughout the month of September. We’ll provide fun activities to get students started with Adobe tools, raise awareness about their institution’s Adobe Creative Campus status, and explain what that means for them.

In the meantime, you could receive an email from your Customer Success Manager regarding student licensing and deployment. Please reach out to your CSM if you need assistance with this as we want to ensure that new students can benefit from their Adobe access right away.

Adobe Skills Lab

As the new term starts, we are excited to invite you and your students to our new monthly webinar series, Adobe Skills Lab, designed to power up your creativity with Adobe Express and Adobe Creative Cloud.

These webinars are available exclusively to our Adobe Creative Campus staff and students. Whilst some sessions are described as either student or staff facing, these events are free and open to everyone within our Adobe Creative Campus community, and we welcome you to join in with as many students and staff as you can! Click here to view the full lineup of events and register for any that catch your interest.

We can’t wait to kick off the following topics in October:

Generative AI, Video, and Design with Adobe Express

Staff webinar | Tuesday, 1 October, 14:00–15:00 | Register here

Build Your Side Hustle with Adobe Express

Student webinar | Thursday, 3 October, 11:00–12:00 | Register here

Adobe Education Institute “in a Box”

The Adobe Education Institute (AEI) is a global event for Adobe Creative Campus faculty, staff, and trainers. We ran the annual AEI in June and are happy to inform you that a new AEI, exclusive to Adobe Creative Campuses in Europe, will be held 11–14 November.Save the date!

Additionally, if you are a faculty trainer at an Adobe Creative Campus, you get exclusive access to our latest training resources, including the all-new and exciting Adobe Education Institute “in a Box,” a compilation of training materials that leverage content from AEI sessions. These resources include everything you need to train faculty and staff with Adobe tools throughout the school year, equipping them with new ways to engage students in learning vital skills that prepare them for the future.

Click here for more information on how to use these resources. When you’re ready to get started, access the resources via the new training section from the Adobe Creative Campus portal.

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Student Badging is moving to the new Adobe Learn Platform

We are excited to announce that we have transitioned to a new learning management system, Adobe Learn, to provide a more integrated and user-friendly learning experience. Adobe Learn offers enhanced features, improved accessibility, and a wider range of tools to support your learning journey.

As part of this transition, the previous Tovuti Creative Skills platform is no longer accessible. Students who used the platform have been notified via email and will still have access to their digital badges via Credly.

For any questions or support, please contact skillbadges@adobe.com or click here to review our FAQs.

Wonkhe x Adobe Education Espresso Webinar

Adobe and Wonkhe have teamed up to highlight and discuss inspirational ideas and projects that have the power to transform higher education.

Read more and register here for the upcoming live webinar on The Learning and Teaching Landscape in 2024–2025, taking place on 26 September, 12:00–13:00. Hosted by Wonkhe editor Debbie McVitty and Adobe Education’s Mark Andrews — and featuring Jo Hendy, director of learning enhancement at Cardiff Met and Tom Perou, Digital Learning Media Developer at UWE Bristol — the session will share reflections from senior leaders and the wider education community on strategic priorities for learning and teaching, innovative practice, and rising to the challenge of rethinking pedagogy.

Adobe Express + Adobe Firefly Webinar Series

For those of you who can’t wait until October to attend more professional development, check out the Adobe Express and Adobe Firefly series and register for the upcoming September session:

Driving Student Engagement with Generative AI

Wednesday, 18 September, 16:00–17:00 | Register here

In this session, Indiana University Professor Justin Hodgson will share how educators can build more meaningful learning experiences that focus on the joy of discovery and integrating digital fluency into the classroom.

Adobe Express Feature Updates

WEBPAGE TEMPLATES

We’re excited to share that templates are now available for Adobe Express webpages! Wait, it gets better — Select “Education” from the filters to browse education-specific templates including digital portfolios, class websites, research journals, and more.

EMBED IMAGES FROM “YOUR STUFF”

You can now embed images into your Adobe Express webpages directly from single- and multi-page documents from “Your Stuff” (your Adobe Express projects, files, and libraries). You’ll know if the original file has been updated when an update icon appears on the webpage. Simply click the image to refresh and update your inserted file.

Licence Deployment Reminder!

Note for IT admins — please ensure that licences have been assigned to students via the Adobe Admin Console before Welcome Week.

Please visit the Adobe Education deployment guide for support. If you require 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,

Adobe UK Higher Education Team