Teach creativity for a digital
world — free for K–12.
Help your students prepare for a digital-first future. Teachers and students quickly and easily make graphics, images and videos from thousands of education templates. All in one app, available on web and mobile.
Test-drive generative AI features for your classroom.
Generate Image
Generate images from a detailed text description.
Generative Fill
Add or remove elements with a text prompt.
Generate TemplateBETA
Create templates from a text prompt.
Generate Text Effect
Apply styles or textures to text with a text prompt.
Empower student voices with responsible generative AI.
Intuitive features like Generate Image, Generate Text Effect and Generative Fill empower students to think critically. Adobe Express includes guardrails for generative AI prompts and results, which help ensure that content is appropriate for K-12.
Get started quickly with thousands of templates and activities.
Subject and grade-specific templates for students and teachers, alongside guided activities, set your classroom up for success.
Monitor and provide real-time feedback with new assignments.
See all your students’ work in one place with the new interactive dashboard. Collaborate with your students and comment on their work in progress. Available in US only.
How is Adobe Express for Education different from the commercial version of Adobe Express?
While Adobe Express for Education offers the same creative tools found in the commercial version of Adobe Express, it also includes features designed to support student learning and safety, including safe search functionality:
- Education-specific privacy controls: Can be deployed in a way that allows schools and districts to meet student privacy obligations.
- Easier log in: Ability to set up single sign-on so students can easily log in with their existing school ID.
- Premium creative assets and student-friendly Adobe Stock images are included, along with safe search for image results that are age-appropriate for K-12 students.
- There are no paywalls, ads or popups.
- Enhanced controls to keep students safe: Schools own the accounts and exercise admin rights over them.
What happened to Adobe Spark?
Spark has been updated to Adobe Express, with even more great features.
What’s the difference between Adobe Creative Cloud and Adobe Express?
Adobe Creative Cloud includes 20+ industry leading apps, such as Photoshop, InDesign and Illustrator and requires a purchased subscription for access. To purchase Adobe Creative Cloud for your institution at an educational discount, visit this page.
Does my district need an Adobe Creative Cloud Licence to use Adobe Express in the classroom?
There are two ways you can access Adobe Express:
- Through a free Adobe Express for K-12 Education license that gives you access to Adobe Express Premium Plan at no cost
- Through a paid Creative Cloud for Education license that includes Photoshop, Illustrator and the rest of the Creative Cloud set of tools.
Where do I go to learn how to use Adobe Express?
Learn by doing and experience firsthand how easily Adobe Express can be used in the classroom with the new Guided Activities! Guided Activities are starter projects you can finish in 10 minutes or less, containing a template paired with video and written instructions. Designed with scaffolding to help your students and you develop skills in Adobe Express, these quick activities can be easily shared with your students or other educators. Log into Adobe Express to try out.
How does Adobe Express protect safety and privacy in K-12 education?
When using the Adobe Express for Education and Creative Cloud for Education licences, students and teachers are given an experience tailored to the security and privacy needs for K-12 education users. In the K-12 Education offers, Adobe Express includes image and video safe search with content filtering. Learn more.