Administrative productivity
Boost productivity by streamlining processes
Your administrative challenges — American Recovery and Reinvestment Act reporting requirements, funding resources, facility management, and more — are tougher than ever. Let Adobe solutions help make your life easier.
Overview
Handling paperwork is a time-consuming and often overwhelming task for teachers and staff alike. From daily lunch schedules, school forms, and student report cards to weekly parent bulletins and important district records, administrative forms can present a significant hassle. And managing, archiving, and printing them imposes a big financial burden.
Adobe® Acrobat® software can minimize tedious and costly paper-based tasks, enabling you to apply your limited time and resources where they are really needed. Everyone in the school community can help simplify document-based processes by creating, collaborating on, combining, and distributing content-rich, protected, and searchable Adobe PDF files.
Whether you need to deal with daily administrative tasks and processes or implement the next virtual school environment as a supplemental resource, Adobe software can help make things easier. Using electronic forms based on Adobe PDF — which works across both Mac OS and Windows® platforms — districts can lower administrative costs, increase productivity, and reallocate the saved funds to necessary academic programs.
Resources
Instructional resources
K–12 Acrobat 9 solution brief (PDF: 190k )
White paper: Using ePortfolios to demonstrate growth and assess learning (PDF: 103k )
Basic Adobe Acrobat 9 technical guides (PDF: 1.8M )
Use these guides for yourself or with students to learn simple techniques to create PDFs, work with multimedia, use commenting tools, create PDF forms, and more.
Creating electronic portfolios with Adobe Acrobat (PDF: 2.4M )
Use this detailed curriculum guide to help your students prepare electronic portfolios in Adobe PDF. PDF Portfolios serve as an ideal way for students to gather, review, and showcase their work.
Digital assessment with Adobe Acrobat (PDF: 2.6M )
Take advantage of the enhanced formative and summative assessment tools in Acrobat to evaluate digital coursework.
Generating lesson plans with Adobe Acrobat (PDF: 2.1M)
Planning daily coursework for your students can be time-consuming. When you create forms in Acrobat, you automate lesson planning and save valuable time.
Simplifying form creation with Adobe Acrobat 9
With just a few clicks, you can create a form that virtually anyone can fill in and save electronically. You can track your forms and see when they've been completed.
White paper: Supporting green initiatives with Acrobat (PDF: 242k )
The United States annually consumes 4 million tons of copier paper, 2 billion books, 350 million magazines, and 25 billion newspapers. Paper is clearly a mainstay in business, but at what cost? Learn how to implement a sustainable model with Adobe Acrobat.
Acrobat User Community
At AcrobatUsers.com, find everything you need to get the most out of your investment in Acrobat, including blogs, news, articles, tips and tutorials, and more. The website is a gathering place where you can exchange ideas and tap into the broad expertise of the Acrobat community.
Products
Products
Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro
Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro software helps educators enhance communication, collaboration, and learning by easily creating, combining, and sharing media-rich Adobe PDF documents. Acrobat makes it easy to assemble classroom and administrative materials from different applications into a single file that can be viewed by anyone with free Adobe Reader® software on Mac OS or Windows.
How to buy
Education product pricing
Educators, students, and schools can purchase Adobe products at discounted prices by ordering through the Adobe Education Store or an Adobe Authorized Education Reseller.
Education volume purchasing program
With the Adobe volume software licensing program, your school can make the most of its software budget, providing students and faculty with access to Adobe's industry-standard software.
Adobe Education Acrobat Term Site License (PDF: 132k)
The new Education Acrobat Term Site License, designed for large education institutions, allows schools to distribute a specified number of licenses by paying an annual fee.
Important information for Acrobat CLP customers:
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