Introducing Adobe Express for Education

Product Update December 2021

As we strive to make Adobe Express the go-to visual communication platform for everyone, we love seeing how diverse our Adobe Express community has become. One area where we’ve seen particularly strong adoption is in the classroom. In just a few short years, Adobe Express has become an essential tool in schools the world over. From preschoolers making their own video stories using their own drawings and voice, to middle schoolers turning in research papers that resemble magazine-quality web pages, to clubs and sports teams sharing eye-catching posts on social media, Adobe Express has emerged as a valuable and versatile resource for students and teachers alike.

Ensuring our products are poised to empower the next generation is of the utmost importance to us. So today we’re releasing Adobe Express for Education. It’s everything you already know and love about Adobe Express, with some extra safeguards and better workflows that will make it easier to bring these powerful storytelling and digital literacy tools into your classroom.

Adobe Express for Education is the same design, webpage, and video formats that students and educators already use and love. The big change is in how Adobe Express for Education is now rebranded as Adobe Express and gets deployed and setup, and this new deployment has some really important benefits for schools, school districts, and ultimately students.

Adobe Express and Minors

Younger users love Adobe Express. But users under the age of 13 could not create their own Adobe Express logins, so we’ve always required teachers to create shared classroom accounts for students to use. This workflow is less than ideal and poses challenges and limitations for teachers. With Adobe Express for Education, students can log in with their very own user ID and password. Once deployed, schools can use Adobe Express for Education’s management tools to create and manage student accounts in a way that is consistent with COPPA (Children’s Online Privacy Protection Rule) and in an environment that keeps students and their privacy safe and secure.

Simplified Logins

Allowing students to log in to Adobe Express is great, until they forget their passwords, that is. Adobe Express for Education ties into existing school login options – Google’s G Suite for Education, Microsoft’s Office 365, etc. – so there are no additional accounts to create and manage. Students log into Adobe Express just as they do any other apps.

Safer Image Search

Public image search remains one of Adobe Express’s most popular features, and it is one students rely on extensively. Adobe Express already implements safe-search, but because we rely on third-party sites, our safe-searches are only as good as theirs. With Adobe Express for Education, we’ve identified the image partners that can reliably return safe content and set global settings that opt students in to only those sites.

And More FREE Goodies, Too!

Adobe Express’s core functionality is free, and always has been. Last year though, we unveiled premium features that allow for greater customization, like personalized themes, custom branding, and more. These premium features are included in any Creative Cloud plan or as a standalone offering for $10/month (or $100/year) per user. Adobe Express for Education users, however, get these premium features…for free!

In the classroom, features that come with Adobe Express subscription better enable lessons around creative expression, personal branding, and consistent design. But it also represents an exciting opportunity for use outside of the classroom. Every user logging in with their school or district login (students, teachers, administrators, coaches, school staff, you name it) will get access to these features included in Adobe Express subscription, so that means anyone in the education space will be empowered to really stand out in today’s crowded digital media landscape. We’re excited to see how this exclusive access enables schools and the people that power them in areas like fundraising, events, and community building.
Learn more about how to create branded content with Adobe Express subscription!

Get Adobe Express in Your School

Getting started with Adobe Express for Education isn’t quite as simple as creating a personal Adobe Express account. We need to ensure that things are configured correctly to get accounts integrated and keep students safe, so getting your school set up with Adobe Express requires that we work with your school administrators or district IT folks. The good news is that we have experts on-hand to help with this. Just head over to https://www.adobe.com/education/express/ and use the link at the bottom of the page, and we’ll help you get up and running.

See how a school in Virginia uses Adobe Express in the classroom.

Thank you

Adobe Express for Education marks another step in our evolution, one where far greater numbers of students, teachers, schools, and even school districts will be able to adopt our platform. We can’t thank the education community enough for the support, constructive feedback, and daily inspiration your work with Adobe Express has provided since the very beginning. Seeing the amazing stories that students of all ages create with Adobe Express and hearing the ways teachers put storytelling, communication, and creative literacy at the core of their lessons is what drives our team. We are excited for what this new chapter in the Adobe Express story means for the next generation of creatives. And we are just getting started.

Aubrey Cattell

Aubrey Cattell is VP for the Creative Cloud Developer Platform & Partner Ecosystem. As a product leader, he loves empowering Creators with new experiences at the intersection of design and technology. Aubrey achieves his flow state most often while skiing, mountain biking, or paddle boarding