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FOR EDUCATORS

Use Adobe Express with your students for free.

Available for teachers in the U.S. with a Google Workspace for Education (Google) account. Don’t have Google Workspace for Education? Share these instructions with your IT administrator.

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Simple classroom account setup.

Classroom accounts allow you to view and moderate student projects in progress, manage student accounts, and create separate classrooms to stay organized, in minutes. Sign up now.

Incredibly easy to use, with thousands of free templates.

Your students will love creating with Adobe Express. Plus, get immediate access to thousands of templates customized for education so students can jump right in.

Save time with free resources and join the community.

Check out the Adobe Education Exchange for teaching resources and self-paced courses. Become an Adobe Certified Educator to join a community of like-minded educators and earn a digital badge for PD credit.

Use with Google Classroom, Canvas, and more.

Adobe Express integrates with your favorite EdTech tools and LMS’s, allowing for easy sign in and management. Create, assign, and grade student projects directly from Google Classroom and Canvas.

Built with privacy and safety in mind.

Adobe Express offers image and video safe search, and Adobe Express, Photoshop Express and Premiere Rush can be used in accordance with COPPA and similar EU laws if you obtain parent consent. Learn more.

FOR ADMINISTRATORS

Deploy Adobe Express for your school or district, for free.

Available for licensed educational institutions and nonprofit educational organizations. Call for more info. Questions? View the deployment guide or see additional resources.

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Easy deployment and setup.

Easily set up Adobe Express for your school and district using Single Sign-On or your preferred portal. Plus, Adobe Express integrates with your favorite EdTech tools and LMS’s.

Built with privacy and safety in mind.

Adobe Express offers image and video safe search, and Adobe Express, Photoshop Express and Premiere Rush can be used in accordance with COPPA and similar EU laws if you obtain parent consent. Learn more.

Integrates with Google Classroom and Canvas daily workflow

With Adobe Express add-ons in Google Classroom and Canvas, teachers can assign, view, and grade student projects within their existing workflow.

FOR STUDENTS

Join your Classroom using your Student Code.

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Make anything you need with Adobe Express.

Design stunning presentations, images, and animations

It’s easy to make science fair posters, social studies infographics, math flashcards, and so much more. Pick a template or start from scratch.

Create attention-grabbing web pages

Transform field trip journals, language arts essays, lab reports, and more into dynamic web stories. Choose a layout, theme, and fonts.

Make captivating videos.

Turn book reports, physics explainers, poetry analyses, and more into video presentations. Narrate your story, pick a theme, then customize.

Education resources at your fingertips.

Adobe has tutorials, courses, lesson plans and video guides on the Adobe Education Exchange, ready to help teachers and students start their creative journey and cultivate creative skills for college and career.

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Become a certified Adobe Creative Educator.

Want to share your Adobe Express projects and ideas with others, and discover how to get the most from Adobe apps in your classroom? Join our Creative Educator community to earn badges and be part of the movement to bring creativity to every classroom.

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Access professional learning sessions.

Lightning Learning, part of the Adobe Education Exchange, offers professional learning sessions that empower you to take creative education in the classroom to new levels. Learn technical skills in areas of creative software, video and photo editing, and more.

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Education templates to get you started.

Frequently asked questions

What’s included in the free Adobe Express for K12 Education license offer?
The Adobe Express for K12 Education offering includes Adobe Express (accessible on both mobile and web), Photoshop Express (mobile), and Rush (desktop), and is free for K12 users.
What happened to 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. The Adobe Express for K12 Education offering includes Adobe Express (accessible on both mobile and web), Photoshop Express (mobile), and Rush (desktop), and is free for K12 users.
Does my district need an Adobe Creative Cloud License to use Adobe Express in the classroom?
There are two ways you can access Adobe Express: through a free Adobe Express for K12 Education license that gives access to premium Adobe Express at no cost, or through the paid Adobe Creative Cloud for Education license which includes Photoshop, Illustrator, and the rest of the Creative Cloud suite of tools. With classroom accounts, individual K12 educators in the US with Google Workspace for Education can create their own Adobe Express for K12 Education accounts and invite students. With district accounts, IT administrators can create and deploy Adobe Express accounts to all students district-wide, using either free Adobe Express for Education or paid Adobe Creative Cloud for Education licenses.
Where do I go to learn how to use Adobe Express?
The Adobe Education Exchange has self-paced courses to teach you how to use Adobe Express with your students. There are courses about how to use Adobe Express for writing activities, graphic organizers, digital portfolios, and more. There are also teaching resources with lesson plans that have your students create projects with Adobe Express while learning key content and curriculum.
How does Adobe Express protect safety and privacy in K12 education?
When using the Adobe Express for K12 Education and Creative Cloud for Education licenses, students and teachers are given an experience tailored to the security and privacy needs for K12 education users. In the K12 Education offers, Adobe Express includes image and video safe search with content filtering, and Adobe Express, Photoshop Express and Premiere Rush can be used in accordance with COPPA and similar EU laws. Learn more.
How can colleges and universities get access to Adobe Express?
Colleges and universities with paid Creative Cloud All Apps for Higher Education licenses get access to all the apps in Adobe Express, including Adobe Premiere Rush, Photoshop Express, and a curated Stock collection within Adobe Express. Institutions can purchase access to Creative Cloud All Apps for students, faculty and staff. Individual students can purchase Adobe Express or Creative Cloud All Apps (including Adobe Express) at a special discount rate for students and educators only.