Northwestern University's agreement with Adobe offers Adobe Express Premium for all students, faculty, and staff. Adobe Express Premium offers all the features of Adobe Express (simple edits to PDFs, clipping videos, and creating flyers and job aids) along with an increased access to available assets and image generation credits. Acrobat Pro is available to all faculty and staff. Limited Creative Cloud licenses are assigned by individual school or business units.
Downloads
Please contact your local technical support with any questions regarding new software installation or updating your operating system. This software is intended for users who use it to perform their job. It can only be installed by someone with administrator access on the computer.
Eligibility and Available
Under Northwestern’s agreement with Adobe, the University is limited to providing Adobe software to:
* Adobe Creative Cloud licenses are allocated and administered by each school or business unit to faculty and staff who require it for their work.
Weinberg Faculty and Staff: Creative Cloud licenses must be requested by
unit primary administrators as outlined in the
Weinberg Adobe Applications page.
Cost
Adobe Express Premium and Acrobat Pro: Free for eligible faculty and staff
Adobe Creative Cloud: Administered by individual schools and business units
How to Request Service
- Students, Faculty, and Staff: To select and download Adobe software go to creativecloud.adobe.com select “Sign in with an Enterprise ID”, enter your Northwestern email address, and then sign in with your NetID and password. From that page, you will be able to select the Adobe products assigned to you to download and install.
- Weinberg Faculty and Staff: Creative Cloud licenses must be requests by unit primary administrators as outlined in the Weinberg Adobe Applications page.
Computer Lab Installations for IT Staff
If you’re looking to install a subset of Adobe products for your end users or create a Shared Device Licensed package for classrooms and labs, please contact the Northwestern IT Endpoint Platforms staff at consultant@northwestern.edu
Adobe Creative Cloud for Students, Faculty and Staff
Adobe Creative Cloud for Education is available for personal use from Adobe to all students, faculty, and staff at a discounted rate.