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New Options for Accessing Adobe

  • All full-time and part-time faculty and staff can request access to Acrobat Pro and Adobe Express at no additional cost.

  • The Adobe Creative Cloud Pro suite is available to faculty, staff, and emeriti, upon request. Access to Creative Cloud Pro requires a $120 annual payment using a departmental FOAPAL.

  • Active full-time students will automatically have access to Adobe Express.

  • The Creative Cloud suite can be accessed on shared devices in University computer classrooms and labs by faculty, staff, and students.

What You Need To Do

Faculty & Staff

  • Starting in September, access to Acrobat and Express can be requested at no additional charge.

  • A separate request can be made for the Creative Cloud suite with a valid departmental FOAPAL.

  • If faculty and staff do not request access to an Adobe application, all previous Adobe access will be removed beginning October 1, 2025.

Students

More Information

The new license structure will take effect on October 1, 2025.

Current Creative Cloud users will not lose files or data stored online with Adobe during this process. However, Adobe's cloud storage should not be relied upon as your sole backup.

To check if you're using Adobe Cloud storage or to back up your data, please refer to the Adobe Cloud Data Backup and Migration Guide.

 

Which Adobe Product Is Right For Me

 

PDF Document Management Including:

  • Viewing PDFs
  • Editing PDFs
  • Exporting PDFs from Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, or Excel
  • Document Creation and Conversion
  • Form Creation and Management
  • E-Signatures

Multimedia In The Cloud Including:

  • Graphics
  • Social Media 
  • Web Content
  • Newsletters
  • Video Editing
  • Generative AI content

Professional Multimedia Tools Including:

  • Photoshop
  • InDesign
  • Premiere Pro
  • After Effects
  • Lightroom
  • Audition

Available to:

  • Faculty
  • Staff

Available to:

  • Students for all purposes (automatically activated for all students)
  • Faculty
  • Staff

Available with FOAPAL payment to:

  • Faculty
  • Staff 
  • Emeriti 

Need help with request forms?

How to request Adobe Creative Cloud Pro Suite

How to request access to Adobe Acrobat Pro and/or Adobe Express via okta.nd.edu.