Start the school year strong with new Adobe Express features for K-12 teachers and students
Adobe Express for Education — the digital media app that sparks student imagination and builds future-ready skills — is better than ever this 2025–2026 school year, and it’s free for K-12 schools! As teachers plan for a new academic year, they’re looking for ways to make classrooms more engaging, creative, and meaningful to improve student outcomes. With exciting new features and capabilities like generative AI, Adobe Express for Education makes it easier than ever to bring learning to life, promote critical thinking, save teachers’ time, and foster essential skills. This is the perfect time to reimagine what learning looks like with creativity leading the way.
Make learning fun & imaginative with new features
Creative skill-building is at the heart of student engagement, and Adobe Express for Education is packed with ways to help learners share their ideas in new and exciting formats.
This school year, teachers can jumpstart student creativity with new features and resources that are aligned to curriculum and designed to spark joy:
- Galleries - Showcase student work with a shared class gallery where students can post their work and explore each other's ideas.
- Multi-step guided activities - Support skill development with step-by-step prompts that guide students through a multi-phase creative project.
- Animate characters - Let students bring characters to life by recording their voices and adding facial expressions and body movements — perfect for presentations or videos.
- Drawing tools - Encourage students to expand their imaginations with expressive digital brushes for sketching, annotating, or coloring generative AI coloring pages.
- Video self-record - Empower students to easily record and share their ideas, building confidence and communication skills.
- Standards-aligned templates - Get started quickly and easily with over 95 editable templates aligned to subjects such as math, ELA, science, and social studies.
Promote critical thinking with responsible generative AI
Students can explore AI-powered image generation, text effects, and custom templates in ways that encourage creativity and critical thinking, all while upholding classroom values. Generative AI tools from Adobe are designed with responsibility in mind, empowering student creativity while supporting thoughtful, classroom-ready use. Adobe Express for Education includes a range of safeguards and educator-friendly controls to support responsible AI use:
- Excluded from training - All teacher and student projects are automatically excluded from our generative AI training data set, same as all Adobe users.
- Built-in student protections - Adobe Firefly’s generative AI respects copyright. The model is trained on licensed content — including Adobe Stock, where contributors are compensated, and public domain content, where the copyright has expired. Safe Search is enabled by default in image search for all K-12 users.
- AI with authenticity - Content Authenticity Initiative tools from Adobe help educators understand when images are AI-generated and provide transparency into their origins.
- Advanced admin controls - Administrators stay in control, managing generative AI settings to match school and district policies.
Save time with teacher-first features
Teachers' time matters. That’s why Adobe Express for Education is built to streamline workflows and keep the focus on the students. Here’s how it helps educators bring creativity into the classroom without adding to their workload:
- Adobe Express for Education home - Quickly and easily understand how to use Adobe Express for any subject with a cleaner layout, faster navigation, and intuitive design.
- Classrooms & assignments - Assign projects, monitor progress, and give real-time feedback – all in one place.
- Self-paced professional development - Build confidence with a 30-minute course to learn how to teach with Adobe Express, and earn an Adobe Creative Educator badge.
- Fast PDF edits - Drop in any PDF and start customizing instantly.
- Quick help - Ask for support right inside Adobe Express and get routed to the most applicable Adobe help articles.
- Easy QR code creation - Add QR codes to posters, presentations, and more in just a few clicks with Express’s built-in QR code quick action feature.
Build collaboration & communication skills for the future
Creativity is about more than making — it’s also about sharing, reflecting, and working together. Adobe Express for Education helps students grow as confident communicators and thoughtful collaborators:
- Collaborative assignments - Co-teach with other educators and enable teacher teamwork. At the same time, giving students the opportunity to work together through shared projects, assignments, and the new Galleries experience.
- Multimedia communication and collaboration skills - Empower students to create videos in teams and showcase their learning in new ways.
- Guided activities - Scaffold learning through fun, ready-to-use activities with step-by-step instructions designed to foster experimentation and critical thinking.
Ready to get started?
Adobe Express for Education is built for today’s classrooms, students, and teachers. Learn more and get started today.