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Adobe at UNCW

Unlock Your Creative Potential with Adobe

Adobe tools empower creativity across campus. From class projects to professional presentations, Adobe makes it easier to share content, build visuals and express creativity. With powerful tools for design and storytelling, it helps students, faculty and staff bring their ideas to life.

We have Adobe Express for the entire campus!

Our Contract

  • Adobe Express: Available to all students, faculty and staff. Learn more about Adobe Express!
  • Adobe Acrobat: Included for all faculty, staff and shared devices where already installed.
  • Adobe Creative Cloud:
    • Available to 25% of faculty and staff
    • Available to 50% of students
    • Included for all classroom & lab machines where already installed
  • Mobile Apps: All users have access to the Adobe Express mobile app. If you have a Creative Cloud license, you'll also have access to the corresponding mobile apps for those products.

What You Need to Know

Students, Faculty & Staff

  • Adobe Express is available to all.
  • You can access your Adobe Cloud content through Adobe Express, even without a Creative Cloud account.
  • Adobe Creative Cloud is provided in Select classrooms and labs.
  • To request an Adobe Creative Cloud License, please submit an Adobe Account and Training Request.

Adobe Certified Professional (ACP) Program

The Adobe Certified Professional (ACP) program allows you to demonstrate proficiency in Adobe digital communications tools. Become a Certified Professional and stand apart from your peers, boost your confidence and expand your career opportunities. UNCW offers ACP training, practice tests and certification exams for InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop and Premier Pro.

ACP test prep is an online, hands-on, self-guided training that will help teach you the skills and the ACP exam concepts in preparation for taking the ACP certification exam. If you are interested, please click the button below to submit the Adobe Certification ITS Request located below.

Adobe Account and Training Requests

Get prepared for the ACP exam by taking practice tests. If you are interested, please click the button below to submit the Adobe Account and Training Requests located below.

Adobe Account and Training Requests

The Testing Center is now set up to proctor Adobe Certified Professional exams. It is strongly recommended you review ACP test prep classes and take a few of the ACP practice tests before sitting for any ACP exams.

Additional exam information

Testing Center schedule and costs for ACP certification exams
Location: University Testing Center, DePaolo Hall, Room 1021
Times: There are four available time slots each weekday to take ACP exams: 9 a.m., 11 a.m., 1 p.m. and 3 p.m.
Registration: Go to Testing Services and click on the link “Register ONLINE”
Cost: $18.50 ($15 proctoring fee + $3.50 processing fee)

Register Online with Testing Services

Resources

As a graduating student at UNCW, you have options available to continue using Adobe Creative Cloud!

Asset Migration

This feature allows you to migrate your assets from your school-assigned Adobe account to a new, personal Creative Cloud account. You will be able to move work such as Photoshop images, Illustrator graphics, Adobe Spark pages, Adobe Portfolio websites and Behance profiles to have access to them after graduation.

Please be aware of the following information before migrating:

  • You must still have access to your UNCW email.
  • You can only do this one time.

Please be aware that once you migrate your assets, if you create anything new using your UNCW Adobe account, you will not be able to migrate the new / additional content.

To begin asset migration: Visit Adobe and follow the instructions in the "Migrate your student assets" help article.

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