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Adobe Creative Campus

Discover new ways to help you throughout your time at Herts and beyond

On this page, you will find useful information on activities that promote the use of Adobe, and how it can help you in your day-to-day activities and your studies at Herts.

Adobe Creative Campus

As students at an Adobe Creative Campus, everyone at Herts has access to Adobe Creative Cloud and Adobe Express, and exclusive learning activities and events.

Adobe Express

All Herts students have access to a free online Adobe Express account. Log-in from express.adobe.com/a/herts.ac.uk.

Adobe Express is a cloud-based app for creative projects, such as creating presentations, images, documents, videos, social media content and webpages.

Unlike other Adobe design software, Adobe Express has been designed for mainstream users, rather than professional graphic designers.

Adobe Creative Cloud

Applications in the Adobe Creative Cloud suite include Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Premier Pro, Adobe Indesign and Adobe Publisher. Adobe Creative Cloud applications are available on LRC PCs and MACs. Find full details of the applications available in the Specialist Software in LRC Technology Suites

Developing and evidencing your skills with Adobe applications

Adobe guidance and tutorials are on the Adobe Learn website. Select the application you are using from the top left had corner of this landing page.

LinkedIn Learning also has courses and short video tutorials for a range of Adobe applications. All Herts students have free access to LinkedIn Learning for the duration of your studies and for two years after graduation. Set-up your account at go.herts.ac.uk/LiL. Full details on the LinkedIn Learning page on AskHerts.

Adobe Skills Labs

Delivered by our partners at Adobe for students studying at an Adobe Creative Campus (incl. Herts). View the programme and register with your Herts username and password on the Adobe Skills Lab webpage 

Adobe short courses and digital badges

You may like to complete short courses from Adobe to develop and showcase your skills. Courses include; Job application essentials, Presentation design, Storytelling through short-form video and more. Follow the course tutorials and submit the assignment (optional) to be awarded your digital badge.

For the full list of courses and to get started go to the Adobe Level Up Your Skills webpage.

Further details and help are on the Digital Skills: Digital creation and communication with Adobe Express page in the Digital Skills unit of Library SkillUP.

What makes an Adobe Creative Campus unique?

Adobe Creative Campus institutions have made a commitment to digital literacy and have empowered students in all disciplines with the opportunity to learn essential digital skills to succeed in the classroom and beyond. They offer their students full access to Adobe Creative Cloud and Adobe Express to learn to communicate more effectively, build their personal brands, and prepare for the challenges of an increasingly digital world. They also collaborate with other Adobe Creative Campus institutions to share best practices in driving innovation and student success.