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Adobe Express is Now Available for Faculty, Staff and Students

September 4, 2025

The University is excited to provide access to Adobe Express for all faculty, staff and students. Adobe Express is a user-friendly content creation tool for graphic design, video/photo editing, presentation development, and more. With this new campus-wide access to Express, faculty, staff and students will have the ability to create compelling print and digital materials for a wide variety of class assignments, presentations, and branded materials for marketing purposes. 

Adobe Express allows you to create on-brand content with easy collaboration, and is considered one of the most convenient large-scale design platforms among designers and non-designers alike. 

In addition to Adobe Express, the University is now providing access to the full suite of Adobe Creative Cloud products for faculty, staff and student employees who use the platforms frequently as part of their role at the University. Select students enrolled in specific courses that designate Creative Cloud as part of their required curriculum will also have access to Adobe Creative Cloud and its enhanced suite of design resources. 

To access Adobe Express - All faculty, staff and students have access to Adobe Express and can login at using your ISU email. When prompted to select an account, choose “Company or School Account” and you will be directed to log in using your ISU username and password. 

To access University brand elements within Adobe Express - All ISU employees will have access to the University’s set of logos, fonts, and colors within Adobe Express. 

To add ISU’s “Brand Kit” to your Express account: 

  • Click “Brands” on the left side navigation within Adobe Express. 
  • Navigate to “Browse shared brands” in the top right of your screen. 
  • You should see the “ÃÛÌÒÊÓÆµ Brand - Official” icon. Hover over this and click the blue button that says “Add”. 
  • Return to your Adobe Express tab, refresh the page, and the University Brand Kit should appear as part of your Brands. 

As a reminder, ISU maintains official brand guidelines which can be found at . Many marketing materials need to be reviewed and approved by the Office of Marketing and Communications. More information about the review process is available at isu.edu/marcom/graphicdesign.

To access Adobe Creative Cloud - Seats are limited to 360 employees. Supervisors should submit a ticket with IT for faculty, staff and student employees to gain access to Adobe Creative Cloud. For students needing access to Adobe Creative Cloud for a course that is part of their required curriculum, faculty should work directly with the IT Service Desk by calling (208) 282-4357 or emailing help@isu.edu. 

Over the next 12 months, the University will also be adopting Adobe Express as our official brand and marketing design resource in place of Canva. The Office of Marketing and Communications will provide a variety of resources to help users effectively work within brand standards using Express. 

More information about the rollout of Adobe Express and phase out of Canva is available at isu.edu/express. Stay tuned for additional tutorials and helpful steps for using this new resource.


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