At Rāwhiti School teachers and students (Year 4 to 8) can access Adobe Express by visiting Adobe Express and logging on with their school gmail. Students are blocked from logging into Adobe Cloud and Firefly as these are for R18 and not designed for student use at a primary school setting. Note: Adobe Premium is not designed for the primary school setting.
What is Adobe Express:
Adobe Express (formerly Adobe Spark) is specifically designed for educators and students. It offers a suite of creative tools for creating graphics, videos, web pages, and social media posts, with a focus on making these tools accessible and easy to use in a learning environment.
Adobe Express Education offers a range of pre-made templates designed for school projects, presentations, posters, flyers, newsletters, and social media content, making it easier for students and educators to create professional-looking designs without advanced graphic design skills.
Educators and students can work together on creative projects in real-time, promoting collaboration and sharing of ideas in studios or between peers.
Adobe Express is designed to be user-friendly, with drag-and-drop functionality and simplified design tools, so that both students and educators can focus on creativity rather than complex technical details.
How to login to Adobe Express
When logged into Adobe Express as an Educator there is a icon bottom left 'Educator Resources.'
This site has Teaching Resources for Educators and you can login using your school email. Lessons can be downloaded and include a student sample, resource guide. You can also create your own collection. Below is a snippet of what lessons are on offer. These lessons could be modified to suit your learners or give you ideas for tasks you could set your students.
You may find Adobe Express more intuitive compared to Canva. Canva uses a lot of third party apps. Adobe apps, in the real world, are industry standard, for example Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Premier. Adobe Express is all in house, the ability to remove a background from an image is built in, unlike Canva that uses remove.bg. The AI in Adobe Express is smarter and has limits applied. In Canva if students search 'killing' or animals with heads chopped off they will get images. If they search this in Adobe Express they get no images as this violates their guidelines.
Search in Adobe Express for 'killing'
Search in Canva for 'killing'