Registration for the Adobe Education Institute 23rd to 25th November 20026 now open!
Build creative-first and AI-forward teaching practices, connect with educators facing the same challenges you are navigating, and leave with strategies you can bring to class right away.
What’s new:
- The event series is now open to all higher ed faculty and staff
- Pathways go beyond Adobe Express into Adobe Acrobat and Creative Cloud
- Sessions dig into the latest Adobe Firefly AI workflows across our core design and video apps
To register and find out more about the sessions.
Academic Year 2026 - News
We have renewed our Adobe partnership for an additional 3 years.
Staff still have access to Adobe Creative Cloud Apps, Adobe Stock. Adobe Podcast and now have 1000 premium credits in Adobe Firefly! (these renew 14th of the month).
Standard students still have Adobe Express, Adobe Podcast but have no premium credits to use in Adobe FireFly.
Students that study on subjects that are taught using Adobe Creative Cloud Apps, have the same as staff but with 3000 premium credits.
Have an explore. If you wish to know how you could start to use Adobe in assessment or your teaching contact Dawn Fozard.
Use the summer to build your skills with AEI on demand.
If you missed this year's Adobe Education Institute, the good news is that every session is available on demand. Whether you're new to Adobe Express or ready to go deeper with Acrobat and AI, there's a learning path to fit your summer schedule.
Earn a digital badge for every session you complete, and work towards the prestigious AEI Influencer Badge by completing at least six sessions and submitting a portfolio of work.
Watch on Demand
Adobe Skills Lab Webinars for staff and students - Back in September 2026
As the new term starts Adobe brings you a series of webinars designed to power up your creativity with Adobe Express and Creative Cloud.
All staff and students at our creative campuses are welcome to join any of these free events. Just click on the registration links.
The webinars registrations will be advertised again early September 2026. If you register and cannot attend you should get a recording of the webinar after the event.
Please check Adobe Youtube Channel or view the Playlist below.
Please do not advertise the CV and Digital Portfolio session as our Graduate and Careers support is more appropriate for our students, please refer to Graduate Futures instead.
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We are thrilled to announce that we have
joined a select group of Universities as an Adobe Creative Campus!
As an Adobe Creative Campus, we are part of a
select group of universities that are driving the future of digital literacy
through creative storytelling within the global Higher Education community.
We recognise the value of teaching creative and persuasive
digital communication skills, and we actively advance these skills throughout
our curricula to help our students succeed in the classroom and gain an edge in
the competitive modern workplace.
All Northumbria University students will now be able to
access Adobe Express Premium, a cloud-based content creation platform that is quick and
easy to use.
All staff can access Adobe Express Premium and download other applications within Adobe Creative Cloud.
Please conduct a keyword search on the Staff Portal using "Adobe" to find detailed articles explaining how to download Adobe Creative Cloud on both University and Personal Devices.
You can access Adobe Express Premium :
- On open access computers on campus or your own device:- https://new.express.adobe.com/a/northumbria.ac.uk using Single Sign On (SSO)
- Select the Continue with Email option,
- Use your university email address,
- Then select Company or School Account.
Or using your phone or tablet via the app downloaded from your App store. Just search for ADOBE Express.
Training Resources can be found at https://edex.adobe.com/professional-learning. or if you want to see what is new and coming up
https://helpx.adobe.com/uk/express/using/whats-new.html
Please watch for further
communications, if you have any questions or require additional information
please contact dawn.fozard@northumbria.ac.uk.
