Adobe Creative Suite 4 School Licenses

Adobe is offering School Licenses for all the new Creative Suite 4 software with installation rights for up to 250 or 500 school-owned or school-leased computers regardless of school enrollment size. School Licenses also come with valuable DVDs of curriculum and training materials to help educators implement career and technical education programs around design, web, and video programs.

These affordable site licenses also include teacher home-use rights, allowing educators to prepare for classes ahead of time (see the FAQ for more details).

Adobe's new School Licenses offer the best value for your school or district when implementing career and technical education programs.

• Integrated: Adobe Creative Suite 4 is a tightly integrated solution that lets students easily move between components and take advantage of the latest feature sets.
• Industry-standard: Students can learn the programs used by professionals.
• Cost-effective: A convenient, low-cost, single-license purchase covers student, teacher, and administrator use.
• Convenient: Each site license offers easy installation, license management, and control of license use throughout the school.
• Multiplatform: Creative Suite 4 applications are available for both Mac OS and Windows® platforms to support individual school and district preferences.
• Home-use rights: Teachers can prepare for courses by using applications on their home computers.
• Curriculum: Each Creative Suite 4 edition comes with a set of free software tutorials and curriculum projects to use individually or as full-year curriculum.

New Adobe® Creative Suite® 4 Master Collection provides the industry-standard tools for designing across media. This comprehensive offering of the latest in print, web, and video design tools from Adobe—combined with instructional resources, certification exams, and new purchasing options—enables educators to engage students while preparing them for career success. New features enable students and faculty to review projects live online. New curriculum and community technical support help faculty implement programs that enable students to build the skills they need to excel in today’s competitive workforce.

See individual CS4 Suites for additional information and resources.

Creative Suite 4 Design Standard and Design Premium School Licenses

Supporting the needs of career and technical education, Adobe Creative Suite 4 Design Standard and Design Premium software provide students with the skills necessary for their future design careers. The Design editions include essential tools for professional page layout, image editing, illustration, and PDF workflows. They deliver the versatility, productivity, and creative possibilities vital for student success.

Curriculum

Adobe certification

Adobe Certified Associate is an entry-level certification that validates essential career skills in visual communication using Adobe tools. Now available as a certification license to run unlimited exams at your school. Contact your reseller for more information.

Course relevance

Teach Creative Suite 4 Design edition tools for career courses such as:

• Graphic Design
• Desktop Publishing
• Photography
• Journalism/Yearbook
• Applied Arts and Technology
• Architecture
• Advertising
• Fine Arts
• Industrial Design
• Advanced Printing
• Production Printing
• Animation

Creative Suite 4 Web Standard and Web Premium School Licenses

Teaching your students web communication skills allows them to capture their audiences with engaging and interactive websites, applications, user interfaces, presentations, and other rich media experiences. Adobe Creative Suite 4 Web Standard and Web Premium offer the comprehensive tools your students need to create, design, develop, and maintain their next web project. Ensure your students are learning with the tools of the trade and let them explore the possibilities.

Curriculum

Adobe certification

Adobe offers two levels of certification: Adobe Certified Associate for entry level and Adobe Certified Expert for expert level. Now available as a certification license to run unlimited exams at your school. Contact your reseller for more information.

Course relevance

Teach Creative Suite 4 Web edition tools for career courses such as:

• Web Design
• Web Graphics
• Web Development
• Rich Media Applications
• Data-Driven Websites
• Animation
• Game Design
• Marketing Communications Design
• Advertising
• Information Systems
• Information and Communications Technology

Adobe Creative Suite 4 Production Premium School Licenses

Giving students the right skills to launch their careers in film and video, Adobe Creative Suite 4 Production Premium software is the total post-production solution that delivers exceptional productivity for broadcast journalism and video production projects. From daily student news broadcasts to public service announcements, documentaries, and feature films, teachers and students learn to create and distribute content for film, video, DVD, Blu-ray Disc, the web, and mobile devices. Production Premium provides your students with the skills they need for postsecondary education and future careers.

Curriculum

Course relevance

Teach Creative Suite 4 Production Premium tools for career courses such as:

• Digital Video
• Post-Production
• Broadcast Journalism
• Broadcast Media
• Filmmaking
• Documentaries
• Digital Storytelling
• TV Broadcast
• New Media and Digital Imaging
• Sound Design
• Sound Engineering

Creative Suite 4 School Licenses

All Creative Suite 4 School Licenses include software licenses for installation on either up to 250 or up to 500 computers (can be split between Mac OS and Windows platforms). When purchasing a School License, organizations also need to purchase one media kit CD. The media kit includes a School License End-User License Agreement, a DVD for Teacher Career Instructional Resources, and a DVD with video tutorials. Contact your authorized reseller for additional details.

Upgrade Plan

Easily keep your school or district current with Adobe software. No matter which Adobe Open Options 4.5 software licensing program you choose, having an Upgrade Plan makes it better. You are assured of access to all Adobe upgrades for your covered products during the life of your Upgrade Plan. And during the first six months of your CLP membership, you may also order an Upgrade Plan for previously acquired, current-version Adobe software licenses (as long as Adobe has not announced a new version), bringing all your installations into a unified technology management program. This helps ensure budget and technology predictability.

Additional information

Adobe Creative Suite 4 School Licenses are available to qualifying public and nonpublic schools only, located at a single address. These site licenses are not available for sale or use by postsecondary or higher educational institutions.

• Site licenses include teacher home-use rights.
• Each license is restricted to an individual school at a single address.
• Individual schools located on the same campus must each purchase their own site license.
• Districts must purchase a School License for each school location separately. (Districts are not allowed to break up site licenses and distribute to multiple schools.)
• Software for use by students may be installed only on school-owned or school-leased computers.
• Student-owned computers are not included in the School License.

School License FAQ (PDF, )