Adobe Creative Cloud Express is a free online design tool that offers teachers and students a set of web and mobile solutions to easily create visuals and videos. Teachers and students can create graphics, web pages, and videos to present content in an interactive format. Adobe Creative Cloud Express includes tools that were part of Adobe Spark plus additional apps, Adobe Photoshop Express and Adobe Premiere Rush, for working with images and videos. Teachers can use Adobe Creative Cloud Express on their smartphone or tablet, then jump to a laptop or desktop with seamless integration.
Adobe Creative Cloud Express is a visual communication and media creation platform that works in a web browser and a mobile app, employing design, webpage, and video formats to create and share visual stories for students and teachers. Teachers can use this tool across grade levels and content areas. This tool is built with extra safeguards and workflows that make it easier to bring storytelling and digital literacy tools into the classroom. Adobe Express can be used for:
Design: Adobe Express with AI-powered features makes it easy to design presentations, create attention-grabbing web pages, flyers, flashcards, infographics, posters, GIFs, QR codes and more. Teachers and students can share their design via link, email, social media, Google Classroom, or Microsoft Teams, send it to Google Drive, or download it.
Creating Videos: Teachers and students can combine footage, narration, motion graphics, images, and text to create videos for book reports, presentations, announcements, and more.
Web Design: Teachers and students can design and develop projects that do not require more than one page, such as portfolios, resumes, galleries, blog posts.
Integration: Adobe Express integrates with other tools and LMS’s, allowing for easy sign in and management. Teachers can create, assign, and grade student projects directly from Google Classroom, Blackboard and Canvas. Adobe Express also supports other types of integrations with classroom platforms including Clever, Classlink, Book Creator, Wakelet, and Flip.
Teachers can access Adobe Express through a free Adobe Express for K12 Education license, or through the paid Adobe Creative Cloud for Education license with access to all the Adobe Creative Cloud suite of tools. Additionally, teachers and students use their Google Education accounts to log in to Adobe Express. Adobe Creative Cloud Express offers image and video safe search, and Photoshop Express and Premiere Rush can be used in accordance with COPPA, FERPA, and similar laws when parent consent is obtained.