Changes to Adobe licensing

Adobe has made a change to its licensing structure that may affect your use of Adobe products. There are now three options included in our license model:

• Adobe Express (formerly Adobe Spark) – This license is the default for all faculty, staff and students. It is a web-based, template-driven approach that is designed to compete with products like Canva. It contains the basics of several of the main Adobe products – Acrobat, Photoshop, Lightroom, Illustrator, etc. IT recommends that you start with Express for your Adobe needs, as it works great for social media posts, basic PDFs, flyers or posters, newsletters, videos, and images. If you need more than this product can provide, you may be able to add one of the following two options.
• Adobe Acrobat Pro – While Adobe Express can manage several aspects of a PDF, the PDFs created with that product are not ADA-approved. If you are creating PDFs that will either go on web pages or be distributed to a larger audience, you may want to upgrade to Acrobat Pro. Limited licenses of Acrobat Pro are available to faculty and staff only. This license will automatically be assigned to all faculty due to the need for posting syllabi and other resources online. If you are a staff member who needs the ability to produce ADA-approved PDFs, you can request the Acrobat Pro license. Because we have a limited number of licenses, please include a justification for your request.
• Adobe Creative Cloud All Apps – For those in programs or positions requiring the full Creative Cloud suite, we have a limited number of Creative Cloud All Apps licenses that can be assigned to faculty, staff or students. This is the traditional Adobe Creative Cloud product that allows license holders to download the apps to their computers. Note that this comes with Adobe Acrobat Pro, so if you have this license, you will not need Acrobat Pro as well. Because we have more limited licenses of the Creative Cloud All Apps product, you must include a justification of your need when requesting this license.

The new licensing model will start being applied to all faculty, staff and students this week. If you receive a license for Adobe Express only and have a need to add Acrobat Pro or Adobe Creative Cloud All Apps, please submit a Service Request using our IT Help Desk ticketing system. Go to https://askit.gcsu.edu. Click on “Other Request” if that is available under the “Recommended for you” section. Otherwise, search for “Other Request” in the “How can we help?” bar.