Adobe K-12 Digital School

What is Adobe Digital School Collection?

The Adobe k-12 Digital School Collection K–12 Site License provides software and supporting resources for teaching 21st century skills and engaging students in cross-curricular learning through digital storytelling projects.


Work with the latest technology

Make easy‐to‐learn Adobe creative and collaborative software an integral part of teaching across subjects.


Enable self-expression

Empower students to express themselves and showcase what they are learning through professional‐looking video projects, digital stories, podcasts, and media‐rich reports.

Use entry-level tools as building blocks

Teach students essential photo and video editing and ePortfolio creation skills upon which they can build professional‐level skills later.

The Adobe k-12 Digital School Collection provides affordable multimedia software and resources for teaching and learning 21st century literacy, problem solving, and communication skills across the curriculum. This comprehensive solution covers photo, video, and audio editing, as well as web publishing. The solution also includes document management and portfolio creation tools for enhancing learning experiences in language arts, history, music, and the sciences. Empower your students to express, explore, and showcase what they are learning through professional looking video projects, digital storytelling, podcasts, and more. The Adobe Digital School Collection comes with a Teacher Resource DVD that includes ready‐to‐use lesson plans, tutorials, and tips and tricks. Note: Available for K-12 schools only.

Use the Adobe k-12 Digital School Collection to engage students in learning and teach them 21st century media literacy, problem-solving, and communication skills. Available through flexible Adobe CLP or TLP volume licensing and ideal for maximizing education stimulus funding, the solution covers web publishing and photo-, video-, and audio-editing and also includes document-management and portfolio-creation tools for enhancing learning experiences in a variety of subjects. The collection—designed for use with a wide range of grade levels and abilities—also comes with a Teacher Resource DVD that includes ready-to-use lesson plans, tutorials, and tips and tricks.

New tools for digital storytelling Easy-to-use tools for photo-, video-, and audio-editing empower students to confidently express what they’ve learned in language arts, history, and the sciences.

• Using Adobe Photoshop Elements 8, students can make ordinary photos extraordinary, and they can share their work in personalized creations for print and web.

• Adobe Premiere Elements 8 makes it easy for students to create high-quality videos with dazzling special effects, professional quality transitions and titles, and synchronized narration and music.

• Task-based tools in Adobe Soundbooth CS4 help students create, clean up, and polish sound for their presentations or create presentations. They can personalize soundtracks, remove unwanted sounds, add audio effects, and much more—in just a few clicks.

Web publishing made easy for teachers and students

Using Adobe Contribute CS4, teachers, students, staff members, and administrators can post and publish content to district, school, or classroom websites and blogs— in a few simple steps. Contribute CS4 provides an ideal way to provide immediate access to assignments, schedules, parental notification and permission forms, school announcements, and other information.

Enhanced communication and collaboration

Students can use the software to prepare multimedia reports in PDF form, and they can use Acrobat to prepare a PDF Portfolio that displays a wide body of work to a prospective college or employer. Teachers can use Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro to easily create and distribute curriculum, media-rich lesson plans, project materials, and homework assignments, and Acrobat can help them simplify processes such as grading, recordkeeping, and more.

Curriculum resources for project-based learning

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