Adobe Licenses Explained
Adobe Acrobat Pro licenses available for faculty and staff by request at no cost and the Adobe Creative Cloud software suite available for faculty and staff at a reduced annual cost of $100.
Note: Students can Access Creative Cloud using this same process. To only use Acrobat as a student, see this link.
Your current Creative Cloud license will automatically renew each July. The three options for your situation are listed below:
A. You need to use multiple Adobe products (Illustrator, Photoshop, etc.)
To request a new license of this type, please contact Matthew Witt by email (Matthew.Witt@cuanschutz.edu) indicating that you need a "full Creative Cloud license" and include a speedtype ($100 per year).
B. You only need the ability to edit and manipulate PDFs (Acrobat)
To request a new license of this type, please contact Matthew Witt by email (Matthew.Witt@cuanschutz.edu) indicating that you need a "free Adobe Acrobat Pro" license. No speedtype is needed.
C. You only need to view PDFs on occasion.
You do not need to take any action. If you only need to view PDFs, you can download "Adobe Reader" for free from https://www.adobe.com/acrobat/pdf-reader.html
Licenses are assigned to individuals. Each individual is allowed to be signed into their Adobe account on two computers simultaneously. If you need Adobe products running on multiple computers (i.e., for a lab), you can request licenses for multiple lab members. (Lab member A signs into computers 1 and 2 - Lab member B signs into computers 3 and 4, etc.)
Note that students follow the same process for the full Creative Cloud license.
OIT has an excellent list of Frequently Asked Questions at this link: https://www.cuanschutz.edu/offices/office-of-information-technology/tools-services/adobe-creative-cloud---faculty-staff