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If you're joining us live, your trainer and support staff will walk you through the necessary steps to complete this workshop, but you should still bookmark this page to use as a one-stop reference that you can refer back to later.

If you're working through the institute on-demand, use this page as your guide - follow the steps below, ensuring that you complete each activity.

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Q&A

In this workshop, you'll become familiar with Adobe Express' extensive suite of collaborative tools as you:

  • Create a visual brand for your department or institution
  • Create your own templates for your students to use
  • Learn how to set up shared projects that function as collaborative creative spaces

Activity 1: Build a Brand

Create a brand for your university/department using your institution’s style guide.

  1. Create a new Brand in Adobe Express
  2. Upload your institution's logo
  3. Add your institution color palette
  4. Add an appropriate font
  5. Attach any pre-existing assets
Share your work here

adobe.ly/collp

Activity 2: In-App Feedback Demo

Let's review how easy it is for multiple creators to collaborate and provide in-app feedback in Adobe Express.

  1. Open a file in Adobe Express
  2. Click Share
  3. Under Who has access, set your file to "Anyone with the link can comment"
  4. Share the link with anyone you want to collaborate with - they will receive a notification in Express
  5. They will be able to view your project and click the Comment button to leave comments in real time
Share your work here

Activity 3: Remix and Create

Quickly create an on-brand template for your students to remix.

  1. Create a new Project in Adobe Express
  2. Add your Brand to your Project
  3. Inside your Project, create a new Express graphic from scratch (or use this template)
  4. Open the Brands menu to find your Brand
  5. Add branded elements to your graphic
  6. Lock the branded layers
  7. Create a View-only link to your file, and make sure "Allow others to use this is toggled on" - this link is how you would share your template with students
  8. Share your work with us
Share your work here

Reflection Prompts

If you're working on a portfolio entry for this workshop, here are some reflection prompts:

How might these tools enhance your collaboration with colleagues and students?
What do you observe about your own preferences and habits around digital collaboration?

Earn Badges

In order to receive a badge you must have been registered for AEI in November 2025.

  • Workshop Badge: Earn a badge for each workshop you completed (no portfolio needed).
  • AEI Fellow Badge: completed four (4) or more AEI workshops this year (no portfolio needed).
  • Influencer Badge: complete at least six (6) AEI workshops AND submit a portfolio of work created in Adobe Express.

How To Prepare The Portfolio For The Influencer Badge?

To qualify, your portfolio must be created in Adobe Express and include activities from at least six (6) AEI Express workshops you have taken part in. (The final session does not count).

The portfolio can be a webpage, presentation or even a poster! Upload your your work as pictures, videos or view-only-links.

Please include a short reflection on your learning journey. Throughout the on-demand material you will find short reflection questions you can use for support.

How To Claim Your Badges

Whether you've completed the AEI workshops live or on-demand, you'll need to fill in the form (We'll sharing this closer to the event) to confirm which workshops you've engaged with.

Please note that you only need to complete the attendance form ONCE, so we recommend you do so after you've worked through all the workshops you intend to complete.

Deadline to submit claim your badges: 1st December 2025

How To Share Your Portfolio

Please ensure you have correctly published your portfolio before sharing it with us.

Steps to share the portfolio:

  • Open your completed portfolio in Adobe Express
  • Click 'Share' in the top right click
  • 'View-only link'
  • Click 'Create link'
  • Copy the generated link and include it in your badge form submission
Complete the form below to submit your attendance and your optional portfolio:
Complete this form

Prepare for Workshop 9

Build your Path to Success: reflect, plan & transform your learning

Adobe Express Student Academy

The Adobe Express Student Academy (AXSA) from 25th -26th November 2025, available exclusively to students of our Adobe Creative Campuses. 💫

Your students should join us for two inspiring days of creativity, learning, and opportunity - 🎖️ earn digital badges, 🤝 win a 1:1 mentoring session with the Adobe team and 🚀 boost their creative confidence and career potential.

Student Academy Webpage
Free Promotional Assets incl Leaflet
Leaflet Template

Useful Links

Adobe Skills Lab for more webinars / Adobe Express support for tech questions / Newsletter for HED / More resources here

Questions? Contact us

Adobe (aei@adobe.com) / Edge Gain (jo@edgegainltd.com)

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