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Adobe launches Creative Cloud Express with drag-and-drop media creation, free access for K-12 classes

• By Kristal Kuykendall
• 12/13/21

Adobe on Monday unveiled its latest content creation platform called Creative Cloud Express, a unified task-based web and mobile product that simplifies the creation of rich media content – from presentations to social media posts, invitations to marketing materials.

Creative Cloud Express enables drag-and-drop content creation, giving subscribers access to thousands of high-quality templates, 20,000 premium Adobe fonts, and 175 million licensed Adobe Stock images. The new platform “empowers anyone, regardless of skill level, to do something great,” Adobe said in a press release.

Creative Cloud Express for Education – free for K-12 grades – includes access to a number of Adobe apps, the company said. The service is available free to educators in the United States with a Google Workspace for Education account and supported domains. the Getting Started Guide for Teachers has more information on how to register; or teachers who are ready to enroll can visit Adobe CC Express Portal for Education.

Creative Cloud Express works with the following class tools: Canvas, Flipgrid, Clever, Wakelet, ClassLink, Google Classroom, Google Drive, Microsoft Teams, OneNote, Book Creator, etc.

Creative Cloud Express for Education features include:

• Design stunning presentations, images and animations.

• Easily create science fair posters, social studies infographics, visual reports and more; users can choose a template or start from scratch.

• Create attention-grabbing web pages.

• Turn field journals, language arts essays, lab reports, and more into dynamic web stories. Choose a layout, theme, and fonts.

• Make captivating videos.

• Turn book reports, physics explanations, poetry analyzes and more into video presentations. Tell your story, choose a theme, then personalize it.

• Unlimited use of Photoshop Express for editing and retouching photos, creating collages, creating digital artwork, and more.

• Unlimited use of the Spark Video app to create video slideshows; the Spark Page application for creating web pages; and the Premiere Rush app for video editing

• Access to proper K-12 curation of Adobe Stock photos from the Creative Cloud Express app, Adobe Fonts, Creative Cloud Libraries – and 2GB of storage.

For more information on Creative Cloud Express features and pricing beyond educational settings, visit Adobe.com/Express.