Welcome to the September edition of the Adobe Higher Education newsletter!
Find practical ideas, upcoming events, and curriculum resources to help you make the most of Adobe tools in today’s evolving higher education landscape. Please forward this to your colleagues and encourage them to subscribe so they don’t miss a thing!
Customer spotlight
QUT's CareerCon 2026
Creativity, digital literacy, and AI fluency are fast becoming the currency of employability, and Queensland University of Technology (QUT) collaborated with Adobe to make sure this year’s QUT CareerCon students left with all three. The three-day event was structured around a clear journey of discovery, action, and networking, with Adobe adding value at every step.
Amongst the highlights of the impressive agenda, students worked directly with Adobe in a hands-on workshop to build their own digital career portfolios in Adobe Express. As they created these rich artefacts showcasing their skills and experience, they developed creativity and digital literacy through design, applied AI skills, sharpened their reflective practice by identifying and articulating their own strengths, and improved their storytelling skills as they wove everything together into a compelling, authentic narrative for future employers. The digital portfolio template also introduced students to Adobe’s accredited digital badging program, a series of short courses designed to help students and career seekers further demonstrate their accomplishments and get noticed.
On the final day of the event, a bespoke CareerCon + Adobe Express Bingo card activity turned exploration into play, prompting students to discover creative tools while making genuine connections with industry exhibitors.
The result? Students walked away with practical, in-demand capabilities and a portfolio to prove it — setting them apart from the pack in a crowded graduate job market. For QUT and Adobe, it's proof that meaningful industry collaboration can turn career readiness into a real, demonstrable advantage for the next generation of talent.
Upcoming events
Registration is now open.
The Adobe Student Academy is around the corner, and registration is officially open.
Help your students take advantage of this free opportunity to build creative, digital, and future-ready skills; learn directly from their peers; and earn Adobe digital badges along the way.
To make spreading the word easy, we’ve created a Student Academy Promo Kit with ready-to-use assets and messaging you can share across your campus channels.
Get the kit to help us spread the word, and encourage your students to register today so they don’t miss out.
From Slides to Animation: Adobe Makes it Easy
Want your content to do more than sit on a slide? In this session, you’ll discover how to use Adobe Express and Character Animator to turn text-heavy or technical material into short animations with voiceover. Join Charmaine and Matteo to see how this approach has been used to teach immunology, replacing a standard slide deck with student-made animated explainers. Great for anyone looking to add motion, character, and narration to their teaching materials, presentations, or projects.
Thursday, 17 September, 2026
12:30pm–1:30pm AEST | 10:30am–11:30am SGT | 2:30pm–3:30pm NZ
Academic Innovation Café
Purposeful, Sustained, and Iterative: Designing a Digital Learning Fellowship at Central Michigan University.
Wednesday, 16 September, 2026
Get an inside look at how Central Michigan University is moving faculty development beyond a single workshop through its Digital Learning & Leadership Faculty Fellows program, a year-long, cross-disciplinary initiative that helps faculty explore, implement, and reflect on creative, technology-enriched teaching.
Leave with practical frameworks and tangible examples for cultivating a similar community of practice on your own campus.
Register to get access to the recording.
Curriculum resources
New guide: Driving Success in Business Schools
Employers increasingly expect graduates who can pitch, present, and communicate across formats. Developed in collaboration with business school lecturers across the UK, this quick-start guide helps faculty bring business concepts to life with easy-to-implement multimodal activities and assessments — no digital design or AI skills required.
See what’s new in Adobe Express.
Embed files.
Turn your Adobe Express designs into a live, interactive file you can add to your website, blog, or online document.
Embed YouTube videos.
Copy a YouTube URL and paste it directly into your file to add playable video content.
Explore the latest features across your favourite Adobe tools.
Useful resources
Join our Higher Education Faculty Community.
Connect with faculty and staff worldwide who are tackling the same challenges you are. Trade what's actually working. Bring real resources back to your campus. Move faster on the instructional innovation that's hard to build alone.
Newsletter archives
Our new newsletter hub includes our latest edition along with past issues. Add the following link to your institution’s Adobe website to keep everyone up to date.
Best regards,
The Adobe APAC Higher Education team
.webp)
.webp)