Adobe School programme

The School Site License is the foundation of Adobe's educational platform, designed to help educators easily integrate web technology across the school.

School Site Licenses are available to qualifying Primary and Secondary schools, state or independently funded, where they are recognised by the relevant national Department of Education.
Adobe is offering School School Site Licenses for selected software with installation rights for up to 500 school-owned or school-leased computers regardless of school enrollment size.
In addition, these affordable site licenses include teacher home-use rights, allowing educators to prepare for classes ahead of time.

Adobe Digital School Collection

Top Features
Top reasons to buy the Adobe Digital School Collection

Inspire, engage and prepare the digital generation

Engage students in learning and teach them important digital communication skills with the Adobe Digital School Collection. Available through flexible licensing options, the collection includes Adobe Photoshop Elements 6, Adobe Premiere Elements 4, Adobe Contribute CS3 and Adobe Acrobat 8 Professional software. The collection, designed for use with a wide range of grade levels and abilities, comes with a Teacher Resource DVD that contains curriculum and guides to help educators bring the learning experience to life while preparing students for future success.

Available through volume licensing only.

Top Features include:

Integrate digital technology into the classroom
Actively engage students in learning
Provide creative freedom for photo and video projects
Confidently mix and refine audio
Easily share images, video, movies and multimedia presentations
Quickly update online content
Present professional-caliber audio podcasts
Present student work on the web
Make it easy to start blogging
Easily create Adobe PDF documents
Combine and optimise media-rich documents
Enhance and extend document collaboration

Engaging digital storytelling

Add excitement and creativity to almost any subject or assignment using Adobe Photoshop Elements 6 and Adobe Premiere Elements 4 software. Enhance digital photos with new photo-blending technology, more precise colour and contrast control, new touch-up capabilities and many other exciting features. Produce polished videos that include amazing visual effects, rich audio and interactive menus. It's easy to present finished work on the web, on DVD and even in high definition on Blu-ray Disc.

Web publishing made easy for teachers and students

Quickly and easily update websites and blogs with course content, student work and class projects and review postings prior to publishing, using the powerful and intuitive Adobe Contribute CS3 software. Easily keep content up-to-date and share information with parents and students by publishing to multiple websites and blogs from a single application or from directly within Microsoft Office applications. The software lets you drag and drop images and video onto existing web pages for instant publication.

Effective communication and collaboration with the complete PDF solution

Use Adobe Acrobat 8 Professional software to create, combine and share media-rich Adobe PDF files. Acrobat workflows can help educators improve classroom efficiency and enhance communication with parents, students and teachers. With Acrobat, it's easy to create and distribute curriculum, mediarich lesson plans, project materials, ePortfolios and homework assignments electronically as Adobe PDF files that anyone can open and view on a Mac or a Windows PC. Acrobat also can make it easy to review assignments and let students collaborate on reports and presentations.

Included teaching resources and tools

Integrate technology into the classroom by using the Teacher Resource DVD, developed with the help of educators. Packed with lesson plans, tutorials, tips and tricks, video lesson examples and even bonus images and video footage, the Teacher Resource DVD helps jump-start media-rich, project-based activities that encourage active learning and motivate student participation in class assignments.

Top reasons to buy the Adobe Digital School Collection

Integrate digital technology into the classroom

Use a variety of innovative classroom lessons and activities, developed in collaboration with educators, that help you integrate technology into the study of language arts, social studies, math, science and other subjects at many levels. Bonus images and video clips can be used in student projects.

Actively engage students in learning

Enhance classroom learning, creativity and student interest with projects that include digital photos, digital videos, web publishing and multimedia reports.

Provide creative freedom for photo and video projects

Easily include stunning special effects, spectacular images, attractive titles, eye-catching transitions and professionalquality sound in classroom projects using powerful and intuitive software tools.

Confidently mix and refine audio

The new Audio Mixer puts the power of a professional mixing board at students' fingertips, letting them adjust relative volumes with sliders, so, for example, dialogue can be heard clearly over music.

Easily share images, video, movies and multimedia presentations

The software makes it easy to share images, video, movies and multimedia presentations in many ways, including on DVDs, the web, mobile devices and even in high definition on Blu-ray Disc.

Quickly update online content

Use WYSIWYG authoring in Contribute CS3 to update websites and blogs quickly and easily, including updating content from within Microsoft Office applications. Drag and drop images and video clips onto websites to display instantly.

Present professional-caliber audio podcasts

New features make it easy to export audio to the web for podcasts that can be heard on personal computers and mobile devices.

Present student work on the web

Post student reports, Adobe Flash video projects, artwork and multimedia ePortfolios to the web for parents and others in the school community to view.

Make it easy to start blogging

Start blogging in the same familiar environment you use to update website content. Work offline and publish student work and parent communications when you're ready.

Easily create Adobe PDF documents

Create Adobe PDF documents for use in lesson planning, in-class projects, homework assignments and parent communications with one-button ease from Microsoft Office applications. Windows users can also create Adobe PDF documents from Outlook, Internet Explorer, Project, Visio, Access, Publisher, AutoCAD and Lotus Notes.

Combine and optimise media-rich documents

Combine textbook pages, photos, video, audio and much more into a single, polished Adobe PDF document or engaging ePortfolio. Optimise file size and arrange files in any order regardless of file type, dimensions or orientation.

Enhance and extend document collaboration

Streamline the review process for classroom assignments and expedite document collaboration. Evaluate student assignments and reports. Let students review each other’s work and collaborate on projects electronically using the free Adobe Reader software, which lets users mark up Adobe PDF files with familiar commenting tools like sticky notes, pen and strikethrough.

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