Welcome to Adobe 

Students on the University of Colorado Denver campus can request an Adobe Creative Cloud or Adobe Express license for coursework at no cost.  

Specific schools and departments will be automatically enrolling students who are required to use Adobe Creative Cloud with a license. Those schools and departments will distribute the Creative Cloud licenses accordingly.  These licenses will be active from the first week in August through July 31 each year. They will not renew.

* If you have an Adobe license, you will lose access to your current account on August 1, 2025. Any students' data stored in the Adobe Creative Cloud will be lost. This applies to current and graduating students. If you have a Creative Cloud account, please back up your data from Adobe Creative Cloud by July 31, 2025, to prevent data loss. 

We strongly recommend backing your files up to the university-provided OneDrive for Business. 

For student employees and work studies, if a student requires the full Adobe Creative Cloud and is not enrolled in a course that requires it, they will need a sponsoring department to submit a request through the faculty and staff webpage and provide a SpeedType for the $65 annual fee (July 1 through June 30.) The department and/or center is responsible for managing the license and opting out of renewal when the student leaves their position or no longer requires the software.

Students are required to be enrolled in the semester to receive any of the Adobe licenses. 

With Adobe Express 

Adobe Express is a reduced version of Adobe Creative Cloud. The applications included in Adobe Express are: 

• Premiere Rush – Shoot, edit, and share videos 
• Photoshop Express – Edits and retouch images 
• Spark Video – Quickly create video slideshows 
• Spark Page – Turn words and images into gliding webpages  

Create social media graphics, flyers, logos, posters, advertisements, banners, business cards, and more. Edit photos and videos, create PDFs, and collaborate with others on your projects. Access professional, on-trend templates, photos, fonts, icons, and design assets. 
 

With Creative Cloud 

Create amazing digital media with Adobe Creative Cloud.  

Access industry-leading desktop and mobile apps like Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Premiere Pro, Adobe Spark, and many more. Get all the tools you need to make your presentations more compelling. Create powerful stories and data visualizations with videos, interactive PDFs, games, web content, images, digital drawings, mobile app designs, and more.  

Adobe Creative Cloud is available to students who are enrolled in courses that require it as part of their program with specific schools or departments at no cost to the student.   

To Access

• Request an Adobe Express license from the OnTheHub software store.
• To request an Adobe Creative Cloud license, please go through your sponsoring department. Licenses cannot be purchased with a procurement card or credit card.
  

Next step after being approved for a license

When you submit the order, a service invoice will be created. You will receive a receipt email from OnTheHub, followed by a message from Adobe confirming your approval for an Adobe license. You can then access the Adobe software by visiting the Adobe website: https://www.adobe.com.

• Click on Sign In at the top right-hand corner of the screen
• Type in your university email address
• Enter your university credentials at the CU Denver | Anschutz Web Login page
• Once you're logged in, click Open under the Adobe logo to access the software