Adobe Creative Cloud speeds up creative workflows and empowers your whole school (both teachers and students) with creative digital literacy skills.
Getting Started
Want to know more about how to assign and manage your licenses? Check out the Adobe Onboarding Page with clear short videos giving step by step instructions on how to access the Adobe Admin Console, assign licenses and manage users.
Find out more via the LGfL website
Find out more about Free Creative Cloud licences with LGfL broadband here.
If you are a new customer, select your Adobe Licence Request option here.
More information about Getting Started with Adobe products here.
Get Support with Deploying Adobe Creative Cloud here.
Check out the LGfL page on Adobe Education Exchange here.
Find out more about Creative Cloud Express (formerly known as Adobe Spark) here.
What's Included with your Creative Cloud licences?
1. Creative Cloud Express – Unlimited free browser-based Creative Cloud access for creating web pages, posters, social media posts
2. Creative Cloud All Apps – Creative Cloud apps for Design / Video / UX&UI (User Experience & User Interface)
3. Document Cloud: Acrobat Pro – Create and share accessible, secure documents with Acrobat Pro
4. Creative Cloud creative essentials: As well as apps, Creative Cloud includes access to creative essentials including including fonts and libraries – share brand elements with Creative Cloud libraries and access thousands of Adobe Fonts.
1. Creative Cloud Express
- Create one-page websites and digital presentations, videos and posters.
- Use 'quick actions' from Photoshop Express and Premiere Rush to quickly edit images and videos.
- Access Creative Cloud Express here.
2. Creative Cloud 'All Apps' – industry standard apps for Design, Video and UX/UI
Creative Cloud desktop apps for Design:
InDesign – Design professional layouts for print and digital publishing.
Photoshop – Create and edit composite images, and perform advanced image edits.
Illustrator – Create vector-based graphics for print, web, video and mobile.
Find out more about all the apps for graphic design here.
Creative Cloud desktop apps for Video:
Premiere Rush – Create and share online videos anywhere (Desktop / Mobile).
Premiere Pro – High-performance, industry-leading video editing tool.
Find out more about all the apps for video editing here.
Creative Cloud desktop apps for UX & UI (for creating prototypes and screen design):
XD – Design and prototype user experiences and interfaces for websites, mobile apps and more.
Find out more about all the apps that can be used for UX & UI design here.
3. Document Cloud: Acrobat Pro
Adobe Acrobat Pro – Supercharge your Document workflow.
4. Creative Cloud creative essentials
Adobe Fonts – Thousands of already licensed fonts at your fingertips.
Creative Cloud Libraries – Use Creative Cloud Libraries to easily access all your assets immediately within your apps: share images, school branding (colours and logos) with your colleagues and fellow students.
Keep inspiration flowing with these and more creative essentials – find out more here.
Learning & Inspiration
Take advantage of hundreds of hours of helpful Adobe tutorials.
Adobe Education Exchange – Free professional development courses and educational resources at your fingertips.
LGfL page on Adobe Education Exchange – Content on Adobe Education Exchange for LGfL customers.
Creative Cloud Tutorials – Learn the basics, or refine your skills with Tutorials designed to inspire – designed for both beginners and more experienced creatives (also accessible directly within Creative Cloud applications).
In-App Learn Panel – Links to learning resources can be accessed directly from individual Creative Cloud apps. Just open one of the apps (for example Photoshop or InDesign), locate the Learn panel and click to access step-by-step web tutorials online to get started.
Adobe Live on Behance – Get inspired by the creative community on Behance, as they livestream their creative process.
Creative Cloud on YouTube – Check out Creative Cloud on Youtube and take a look at our channels: Make It Now; Adobe Live; Adobe MAX Sessions and more.
Creative Cloud on Twitter – Follow us @CreativeCloud and follow our other channels for the latest creative updates.
99U – A resource and event series to help creatives build incredible careers, supercharge their work, and make their ideas happen
Adobe Help Centre – Find out answers to questions on Adobe Help Centre.
How are schools using Adobe Creative Cloud?
Read and watch case studies that show how using Adobe Creative Cloud can benefit your school.
Providing students with access to Creative Cloud applications helps build digital literacy skills. Find out more about how schools use Creative Cloud to enhance learning here.
Using Adobe Spark in the classroom, Beaverton School District students and teachers collaborated on projects and published and shared stories. Find out more here.
The BRIT School, the UK’s leading Performing Arts and Technology School (with globally recognised alumni such as Adele, Jessie J, & Spiderman star Tom Holland), prepared students by teaching them industry-standard tools with Adobe Creative Cloud. Find out more here.
Year 2 students at Britannia Village Primary used Creative Cloud Express with students to enable them to harness their natural creativity. Find out more here.
Using a wide range of Creative Cloud applications, Burnt Oak Primary School students created content for a digital newspaper and used Adobe Premiere Rush to produce videos. Watch the video about it here and read more about it here.
Students and Teachers at Langley Park Girls School discuss how Adobe Creative Cloud apps are helping make the subjects of visual arts and photography more engaging, interactive and creative. Read more more here and watch a video here.
Tottington Primary School school students used Adobe Creative Cloud Express to create content for their own literary film festival. Find out more here.
Curriculum Examples and Lesson Plans
Visit Adobe Education Exchange to find out more about how lesson plans for subjects such as Maths, Social Studies and Science can all be enhanced using Creative Cloud. Find resources here.
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