What is Adobe Express?
Available on web and mobile, Adobe Express (formally Adobe Spark) is a collection of simple to use digital creativity & collaboration tools for posters, infographics, custom graphics, video stories, web pages & multimedia short-cuts.
What was Adobe Spark, is now Adobe Express and more.
Designed with students and teachers in mind, who may not have the time or the inclination to learn the high-end professional tools that are part of the Adobe Creative Cloud, Creative Cloud Express is about getting great looking digital content made quickly and simply without needing to worry too much about the design or the tool.
Aim of this resource
This resource aims to explain the value of Adobe Express and how it can be used within a wide range of curriculum areas. This resource features links to (printable) one-page user documentation PDFs linked to short video tutorials to help teachers and students get started on a range of creative digital projects and techniques to help enhance teaching & learning.
Contents
- Starting with templates
- Collaborating with others on the same project
- Adding & manipulating text to a graphic
- Adding & changing images to a graphic
- Adding icons & design assets to graphic
- Sharing and publishing a graphic
- Animating a graphic
- Starting a video story
- Adding voice-overs to a video story
- Adjusting the music in a video story
- Adding still images to a video story
- Adding titles to a video story
- Adding, moving and deleting slides for your video story
- Adding and editing moving images to a video story
- Changing layouts to a video story
- Sharing a video story
- Introduction to Premiere Rush
- Starting a Premiere Rush project
- Timeline tools part 1
- Timeline tools part 2
- Other editing tools
- Basic editing with Premiere Rush
- Exporting
Key resources & professional learning
- Live events for NSW DoE
- Student Creativity Challenges for NSW
- Adobe Education Exchange - CC Express resources
- Adobe in Education events (ANZ)
- Inject Creativity Live (fortnightly YouTube show)
- Adobe TeachMeets (APAC)
- Adobe Creative Educator Program
- Adobe in Education video (2022)
- CREATIVITY MATTERS (article by Dr Tim Kitchen, Jan 2022)
- Book an Adobe expert for your school
Getting started
Logging in via the NSW portal
This video explains how NSW Government students and teachers can access all of their Adobe applications, including the new Adobe Express.
This video explains how to log in via the NSW Student Portal
Logging into Adobe Express via express.adobe.com
Logging into Adobe Express via creativecloud.adobe.com
Logging into Adobe Express via the Adobe Creative Cloud Desktop App
Managing your projects (the dashboard)
Creating graphics
Use Adobe Express to make great looking infographics, flyers and other images with the support of wonderful templates, royalty free pictures, icons, design assets and more.
The following three videos are from the Adobe for Education YouTube Channel ...
Starting a graphic with templates
Below is an example of an infographic made with Creative Cloud Express. Click here to access the template and re-mix it.
Collaborating with others on the same project
Collaboration is highlighted by the World Economic Forum (The Future of Jobs Report 2020) in the top 10 skills of 2025.
Adding & manipulating text in a graphic
Adding & changing images in a graphic
Adding shapes & design assets to graphic
Sharing and publishing a graphic
Animating a graphic
Creating a video story
Use Adobe Creative Cloud Express to create professional looking and sounding video stories.
Starting a video story
Adding voice-overs to a video story
Adjusting the music in a video story
Adding still images to a video story
Adding titles to a video story
Adding, moving and deleting slides for your video story
Adding and editing moving images to a video story
Changing layouts to a video story
Sharing a video story
Making web pages
Use Adobe Creative Cloud Express to make great looking web pages to communicate with the person next to you, your class or (if you want) to a global audience.
The following two videos come from the Adobe for Education YouTube Channel ...
Starting a Web Page with a title
Adjusting the look and feel (theme) of a web page
More about web page creation to come ...