Instructional resources

Find curricula, lessons and activities, and other resources to help you teach.

Teach career skills

Visual Design: Foundations of Design and Print Production

Visual Design is a yearlong, project-based curriculum that develops career and communication skills in print production and graphic design, using Adobe tools.

Digital Design: Foundations of Web Design

Digital Design is a yearlong, project-based curriculum that develops IT career skills in web design and production, using Adobe tools.

Digital Video: Foundations of Video Design and Production

Digital Video is a yearlong, project-based curriculum that develops career and communication skills in digital video production, using Adobe tools.

Rich Internet application (RIA) teaching resources

These resources provide a combination of online workshop modules for self-study, course projects to apply the skills learned, and book recommendations to put together a course on RIA design and development.

Learn products

Adobe TV

Adobe TV is your online source for expert insight and inspiration. Feed your passion for Adobe products with insider tips, innovative techniques, and behind-the-scenes tours delivered on video, on demand. Browse the How-to channel for video workshops that introduce the essentials of your Adobe product. There are over 100 video tutorials for Adobe Creative Suite 4, covering a wide range of subjects for print, web, and video professionals.

Safari Books Online

Safari Books Online is the e-reference library connecting you to books from Adobe Press, Peachpit Press, O'Reilly Media, and many more. Sign up for this two-week trial to get immediate access.

Element K online courses

Learn at your own speed through our engaging, interactive online courses. The courses cover a broad range of Adobe products and related design and development topics.

Adobe Press books

Read descriptions and find out how to order the best books to help you become an expert teacher on Adobe products.

Adobe Design Center

The Adobe Design Center contains samples, tips, articles, and tutorials by product for designers who are working with Adobe products to create media or design projects.

Adobe Developer Center

The product-specific Adobe Developer Centers contain articles, code samples, tutorials, sample projects, and other resources for developers building projects using Adobe developer products and servers.

Career Skills

Visual Design: Foundations of Design and Print Production

Visual Design is a yearlong, project-based curriculum that develops career and communication skills in print production and graphic design, using Adobe tools.

Digital Design: Foundations of Web Design

Digital Design is a yearlong, project-based curriculum that develops IT career skills in web design and production, using Adobe tools.

Digital Video: Foundations of Video Design and Production

Digital Video is a yearlong, project-based curriculum that develops career and communication skills in digital video production, using Adobe tools.

RIA

Rich Internet application (RIA) teaching resources

eLearning

Communication & Collaboration

The Communication & Collaboration Resource Center is designed for administrators, teachers, and students. This collection of examples, step-by-step technical guides, best practices, and tips will help you create and publish online learning content and train and collaborate through online meetings.

Administration

Converting theses and dissertations to Adobe PDF portfolios

Learn how to use Adobe Acrobat to convert theses and dissertations into media-rich, searchable, and secure PDF portfolios.

Research

Converting theses and dissertations to Adobe PDF portfolios

Learn how to use Adobe Acrobat to convert theses and dissertations into media-rich, searchable, and secure PDF portfolios.

Photoshop Elements

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Digital photography tips

Take advantage of these tips provided by top professional photographers and learn how to edit, enhance, and organize your pictures.

Digital photography tips (PDF: 109K)

Introduction to digital photography

Learn the basics of good pictures and the process of taking and processing photographs.

Introduction to digital photography (PDF: 109K)

Digital storytelling

Understand the basics of digital storytelling and the different ways use storytelling in learning.

Digital storytelling (PDF: 109K)

Teaching and Learning Resources

A Person in Time Online

Students (grades 6-12) will conduct research on a historical figure and then design and build a web page based on how this person would want to be represented on the Internet.

Visual Representation of the Atom

In this lesson, students will create visual representations of the atom to illustrate their understanding of the atom and its elements.

Impressionist Artwork

Students will explore the impact of photography on impressionism by taking photographs around the school to turn into impressionist works of art.

Adobe Photoshop Elements 7 Classroom in a Book

Adobe Photoshop Elements 7 Classroom in a Book is the most thorough and comprehensive way for new users to master all the new features in Adobe's consumer-targeted image editing software. Request your instructor copy from Adobe Press.

Articles and Tutorials

Basic Adobe Photoshop Elements 7 Technical Guides

Use these guides for yourself or with students to learn simple techniques on creating shapes, editing images, retouching photos, applying filters, using layers, adding music and narration, and creating slideshows.

Photoshop Elements Guides (PDF: 2.2M)

Photoshop Elements 6 Resources

Basic Adobe Photoshop Elements 6 Technical Guides

Photoshop Elements Guides (PDF: 2.2M)

A Person in Time Online

Students (grades 6-12) will conduct research on a historical figure and then design and build a web page based on how this person would want to be represented on the Internet.

Visual Representation of the Atom

In this lesson, students will create visual representations of the atom to illustrate their understanding of the atom and its elements.

Impressionist Artwork

Students will explore the impact of photography on impressionism by taking photographs around the school to turn into impressionist works of art.

Premiere Elements

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Digital video tips

Read these tips on using digital video cameras, lighting the set, capturing sound, and other topics to help your students better understand video capture.

Digital video tips (PDF: 109K)

Introduction to digital video

Learn the video production process no matter what type of video you plan to create.

Introduction to digital video (PDF: 109K)

Digital storytelling

Understand the basics of digital storytelling and the different ways use storytelling in learning.

Digital storytelling (PDF: 109K)

Teaching and Learning Resources

A Person in Time Online

Students (grades 6-12) will conduct research on a historical figure and then design and build a web page based on how this person would want to be represented on the Internet.

Civic Documentaries

Students (grades 6-12) will choose an issue that impacts them personally, the school, or their community to document in a short movie.

Articles and Tutorials

Basic Adobe Premiere Elements 7 Technical Guides

Use these guides for yourself or with students to learn simple techniques on importing video, editing clips, adding transitions, adding titles, recording narration, podcasting and adding a soundtrack.

Premiere Elements Guides (PDF: 1.8M)

Premiere Elements 4 Resources

Basic Adobe Premiere Elements 4 Technical Guides

Premiere Elements Guides (PDF: 1.8M)

A Person in Time Online

Students (grades 6-12) will conduct research on a historical figure and then design and build a web page based on how this person would want to be represented on the Internet.

Civic Documentaries

Students (grades 6-12) will choose an issue that impacts them personally, the school, or their community to document in a short movie.

Contribute

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Hot topics for Contribute CS4 coming soon.

Creating Dreamweaver templates for Contribute CS3

Create a template for Contribute using Dreamweaver, and learn how to specify which regions of a page remain editable in Contribute, and which regions cannot be edited.

Using Dreamweaver templates with Contribute

Use a template created in Dreamweaver for a Contribute website, and learn how to select a template, set it up in Contribute, and work with editable regions.

Editing and posting a blog entry

Use the Edit Entry button to modify an existing blog entry by adding content from a Word document, insert an image from your hard drive, apply basic formatting to the blog entry, add a link to another blog entry, and publish the entry to your blog.

Adding rich media to a blog entry

Add an FLV file from your hard drive to the blog entry, and change the video player's appearance (skin) by setting preferences in Contribute.

Teaching and Learning Resources

Animal Kingdom Digital Encyclopedia

Students (grades 4-9) will create web pages, using Contribute CS4, to communicate information demonstrating their understanding of an academic concept.

A Person in Time Online

Students (grades 6-12) will conduct research on a historical figure and then design and build a web page based on how this person would want to be represented on the Internet.

E-Portfolios for assessment with Contribute

Students can generate portfolios for distribution online by using Adobe Contribute CS4. Throughout the semester or year, have students post their work to their designated web pages that serve as a student e-portfolio. You can use these guides to help you set up the web space and start students contributing their work.

Contribute CS3 Resources

Animal Kingdom Digital Encyclopedia

Students will create web pages, using Contribute CS3, to communicate information demonstrating their understanding of an academic concept.

A Person in Time Online

Students (grades 6-12) will conduct research on a historical figure and then design and build a web page based on how this person would want to be represented on the Internet.

E-Portfolios for assessment with Contribute

Students can generate portfolios for distribution online by using Adobe Contribute CS3. Throughout the semester or year, have students post their work to their designated web pages that serve as a student e-portfolio. You can use these guides to help you set up the web space and start students contributing their work.

Acrobat

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Adding multimedia to your PDF document

This video shows you how to incorporate multimedia into a PDF file. Movie controls are highlighted as well as compatibility and viewing settings.

Using familiar commenting tools

This video shows you how to use the various commenting and markup tools in Acrobat 9, including how to effectively use the Text Edits tool, and how to set their properties and formatting.

Send documents for review by email

This video shows you how to initiate, participate in reviews and track comments from reviewers that are being sent via email.

Automating form field creation

This video shows you how to quickly create forms.

Teaching and Learning Resources

Electronic portfolios, digital assessment, and lesson planning

Learn how to use Adobe Acrobat to create PDF portfolios, digitally assess student coursework, and automate planning for student lessons and coursework.

Adobe Acrobat User Community

The goal of the Acrobat User Community is to provide the type of educational resources and user-to-user support that appeal to Acrobat users of all levels and professional backgrounds. You can view articles, resources, tutorials and more in the Acrobat User Community.

Basic Adobe Acrobat 9 technical guides

Use these guides for yourself or with students to learn simple techniques to create PDFs, work with multimedia, use commenting tools, create PDF forms, and more.

Adobe Acrobat 8 resources

PDF lesson plans with Acrobat

Basic text-only lessons can now be updated to reflect the technology rich lessons you teach. Create lessons that contain resources from the web, excerpts from online news sources, multimedia, photographs, and other sources.

Lessons and course packets
This article provides an overview of the assembly process for a classroom lesson or course pack developed with Adobe Acrobat.
- Lesson and course packets (PDF, 26K)
- American Memory Lesson: Japanese Internment (PDF, 1.12M)
Medina Independent School District lesson plan
Created by the Medina Independent School District, this editable lesson plan template enables you to create lessons, organize by day and week, search for lessons, and archive for your records.
- Medina Independent School District Lesson Plan Template (PDF, 243K)

Research and lesson plan forms

Forms can be created to enable students to gather and compile data for research projects or as part of the teaching process to create lesson plans.

Acrobat 8 Professional offers some great new form features. Learn about how you can enable usage rights so anyone can fill out, save, and submit a form with the free Adobe Reader.

Basic Adobe Acrobat technical guides

Use these guides for yourself or with students to learn simple techniques to create PDFs, create PDF forms, organize form data, use commenting tools, work with multimedia, add document security, utilize the OCR function, and more.

Adobe Acrobat Guides (PDF, 2.5M)

Adobe Acrobat 8 curriculum guide

This tutorial includes easy-to-follow steps for designing and creating Adobe PDF documents. Each of the lessons includes interactive exercises followed by individual and group activities built on the Guide’s rich resource and project files.

View tutorial (PDF, 3.2M)

Supporting Resource Files (ZIP, 1.5M)

Dreamweaver

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Learn Dreamweaver CS4 - Introducing Dreamweaver CS4

Become familiar with the workspace and creating new document. See how you can style text using CSS, preview and edit files, and manage files.

Learn Dreamweaver CS4 - Defining a site

Learn how to set up a Dreamweaver site, the first step to building a website in Dreamweaver.

Learn Dreamweaver CS4 - Styling text in the CSS Property inspector

Use the CSS Property inspector to easily create, edit, and apply cascading style sheets (CSS) to your document.

Learn Dreamweaver CS4 - Using views and workspaces

Learn to work in Design view, Code view, Split view, and Vertical split view. Switch between workspaces optimized for designers and developers.

Teaching and Learning resources

Digital Design: Foundations of Web Design

Digital Design is a yearlong, project-based curriculum that develops IT career skills in web design and production, using Adobe tools.

Adobe Dreamweaver CS4 Classroom in a Book

Learn how to customize a Dreamweaver workspace, apply cascading style sheets, enter headline and body text, insert graphics and rollovers, and add links to a page. Request your instructor copy from Adobe Press.

Adobe Dreamweaver CS4 How-Tos: 100 Essential Techniques

This guide lets you get right down to work by focusing on the Dreamweaver CS4 features they're most likely to use, including Spry framework for Ajax and Spry widgets and effects; the book showcases each in a stand-alone tip, complete with a relevant hint or two and helpful screenshots. Request your instructor copy from Adobe Press.

Older resources

Digital Design: Foundations of Web Design

Digital Design is a yearlong, project-based curriculum that develops IT career skills in web design and production, using Creative Suite 3 tools by Adobe.

Adobe Dreamweaver CS3 Classroom in a Book

Adobe Dreamweaver CS3 How-Tos: 100 Essential Techniques

This guide lets you get right down to work by focusing on the Dreamweaver CS3 features they're most likely to use, including Spry framework for Ajax and Spry widgets and effects; the book showcases each in a stand-alone tip, complete with a relevant hint or two and helpful screenshots. Request your instructor copy from Adobe Press.

Flash

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Learn Flash Professional CS4 - Introducing Flash CS4 Professional

Learn Flash workflow basics: using the workspace, creating and importing artwork, using symbols and Timeline, and publishing SWF files.

Learn Flash Professional CS4 - Creating Motion Tweens: Part 1

Create animation using motion tweens. Create complex effects by creating custom motion paths and adding and editing property keyframes.

Learn Flash Professional CS4 - Creating Motion Tweens: Part 2

Learn editing techniques that allow you to create more complex animations by using nested symbols and custom ease curves.

Learn Flash Professional CS4 - Using the Motion Editor

Use the Motion Editor to finely control the tweening of individual properties. Also apply ease curves to individual property tweens.

Teaching and Learning resources

Digital Design: Foundations of Web Design

Digital Design is a yearlong, project-based curriculum that develops IT career skills in web design and production, using Adobe tools.

Adobe Flash CS4 Professional Classroom in a Book

Using step-by-step instructions with projects that build on the knowledge learned in each lesson, you will learn the key elements of the Flash interface, including panels, timelines, and frames. Request your instructor copy from Adobe Press.

Adobe Flash CS4 Professional How-Tos: 100 Essential Techniques

This information- and image-packed guide lets users get right down to work by focusing on the Flash CS4 features they're most likely to use; the book showcases stand-alone tips complete with a relevant hint or two and helpful screenshots. Request your instructor copy from Adobe Press.

ActionScript 3.0 for Adobe Flash CS4 Professional Classroom in a Book

This project-based guide from Adobe will teach readers all they need to know to create engaging interactive content with ActionScript 3.0 for Flash CS4 Professional. A companion CD provides users with all the sample files they need to complete the projects. Request your instructor copy from Adobe Press.

Older versions

Digital Design: Foundations of Web Design

Digital Design is a yearlong, project-based curriculum that develops IT career skills in web design and production, using Creative Suite 3 tools by Adobe.

Adobe Flash CS3 Professional Classroom in a Book

Adobe Flash CS3 Professional How-Tos: 100 Essential Techniques

This information- and image-packed guide lets users get right down to work by focusing on the Flash CS3 features they're most likely to use; the book showcases stand-alone tips complete with a relevant hint or two and helpful screenshots. Request your instructor copy from Adobe Press.

Flex / AIR

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What is a rich Internet Application

Learn the basics of designing and developing RIA projects and see example RIAs in action.

Flex 3 Getting Started

Check out the getting started guide on learn.adobe.com, with special areas for developers using Flex with PHP, .NET, Java and Coldfusion.

Adobe Flex 3 Component Explorer

The Flex Style Explorer is an online tool provided by Adobe. The specific purpose of Flex Style Explorer is threefold: to create a visual catalog of the available style controls for Flex components; allow for easy, real-time manipulation of a component�s style to see the effect of the various controls; and provide the source CSS associated with each style control.

Flex Cookbook Beta

Share knowledge and find answers to common coding problems through the Flex cookbook.

Adobe Education Developer Center

Find resources for learning Flex, read articles by educators, explore the showcase of student projects, and join the Flex developer community in the Adobe Education Developer Center.

Adobe AIR and Dreamweaver for JavaScript developers

This article discusses the differences between web development with HTML/JavaScript and application development with the same tools.

Introducing Adobe AIR for Ajax Developers

With Adobe AIR, you can build and deploy your Ajax apps to the desktop using the tools, technologies, and development models you employ today when developing for the browser.

Adobe Flash and Flex - Which makes the most sense for your project?

Learn how to apply progressively more complex skills and techniques across the range of tools that comprise the Flash platform, and how to match the appropriate Flash toolsets to the demands of various kinds of interactive development projects.

TEACHING AND LEARNING RESOURCES

Rich internet application teaching resources

These newly created instructional resources provide a combination of online workshop modules for self-study, course projects to apply the skills learned in the self-study, and recommendations on books to use for Rich Internet Application content to integrate into different courses across design and computer science.

Fireworks

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Learn Fireworks CS4 - Introducing Fireworks CS4

Get acquainted with the workspace and productivity enhancements in Fireworks, plus the new options for exporting content to HTML/CSS, PDF, Flash, and AIR.

Learn Fireworks CS4 - Creating interactive prototypes for reviews

Provide functional prototypes to clients by exporting them to web pages, interactive PDFs, AIR applications, or Flash presentations.

Learn Fireworks CS4 - Understanding styles and symbols

Use styles to quickly apply changes you make in one object to other objects. Use symbols to add reusable, editable components in your designs.

Learn Fireworks CS4 - Creating CSS/XHTML layouts

Create web pages and export web standards compliant, CSS-based layouts, with external style sheets, in one step by observing simple design rules.

Teaching and Learning resources

Digital Design: Foundations of Web Design

Digital Design is a yearlong, project-based curriculum that develops IT career skills in web design and production, using Adobe tools.

Adobe Fireworks CS4 How-Tos: 100 Essential Techniques

Adobe Fireworks CS4 How-Tos: 100 Essential Techniques gives users quick access to the key features and fundamental techniques to help them come up to speed in Adobe Fireworks CS4. Request your instructor copy from Adobe Press.

Older resources

Digital Design: Foundations of Web Design

Digital Design is a yearlong, project-based curriculum that develops IT career skills in web design and production, using Creative Suite 3 tools by Adobe.

Using rich symbols in Fireworks

Learn more about rich symbols and their uses.

Vectoring in on bitmaps with Fireworks

This article introduces some simple and timesaving ways to use Fireworks bitmaps and vectors together to quickly create useful masking effects.

Photoshop

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Learn Photoshop CS4 - Introducing Photoshop CS4

Set up your workspace for easier image navigation and zooming. Make non-destructive color adjustments and layer mask refinements.

Learn Photoshop CS4 - Making color corrections

Use the improved Dodge, Burn, and Sponge tools with the Protect Tones setting to achieve subtle and seamless corrections.

Learn Photoshop CS4 - Making adjustments

Make color and tonal adjustments using an easy layer-based workflow with the improved Adjustments panel.

Learn Photoshop CS4 - Working with masks

Add and edit filter masks, layer masks, and vector masks in the Masks panel. Learn how to easily change the density and feathering to refine a mask's edges.

Teaching and Learning resources

Visual Design: Foundations of Design and Print Production

Visual Design is a yearlong, project-based curriculum that develops career and communication skills in print production and graphic design, using Adobe tools.

Adobe Photoshop CS4 Classroom in a book

Using clear, step-by-step, project-based lessons, each chapter walks you through the creation of a specific project, with each chapter building on the your growing knowledge of the program, while review questions at the end of each chapter reinforce the skills learned in each lesson. Request your instructor copy from Adobe Press.

Adobe Photoshop CS4 How-Tos: 100 Essential Techniques

This info-packed guide lets users get right down to work by focusing on the Photoshop CS4 features they're most likely to use and showcasing each in a stand-alone tip--complete with a relevant hint or two and a graphic example. Request your instructor copy from Adobe Press.

Older versions

Visual Design: Foundations of Design and Print Production

Visual Design is a yearlong, project-based curriculum that develops career and communication skills in print production and graphic design, using Creative Suite 3 tools by Adobe.

Adobe Photoshop CS3 Classroom in a book

Adobe Photoshop CS3 How-Tos: 100 Essential Techniques

This info-packed guide lets users get right down to work by focusing on the Photoshop CS3 features they're most likely to use and showcasing each in a stand-alone tip--complete with a relevant hint or two and a graphic example. Request your instructor copy from Adobe Press.

Illustrator

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Learn Illustrator CS4 - Introducing Illustrator CS4

Learn about some exciting new features in CS4: document windows, multiple artboards, gradients, appearances, and the Recolor Artwork dialog box.

Learn Illustrator CS4 - Using the Blob Brush tool

Draw merged paths and automatically remove redundant points so the path is easy to select and edit. Learn how to use the Eraser and Smooth tools.

Learn Illustrator CS4 - Working with multiple artboards

Create up to 100 artboards of any size and then export and print them in different ways to create multiple assets for a single project.

Learn Illustrator CS4 - Working with Gradients

Create and save elliptical gradients with full or partial transparency. Learn to use the interactive Gradient tool and Gradient panel.

Teaching and learning resources

Visual Design: Foundations of Design and Print Production

Visual Design is a yearlong, project-based curriculum that develops career and communication skills in print production and graphic design, using Adobe tools.

Adobe Illustrator CS4 Classroom in a Book

Using clear, step-by-step lessons, each chapter contains a project that builds upon the reader's growing knowledge of the software, while review questions at the end of each chapter reinforce key concepts and skills. Request your instructor copy from Adobe Press.

Adobe Illustrator CS4 How-Tos: 100 Essential Techniques

This info-packed guide lets users get right down to work by focusing on the Illustrator CS4 features they're most likely to use and showcasing each in a stand-alone tip--complete with a relevant hint or two and a graphic example. Request your instructor copy from Adobe Press.

Older resources

Visual Design: Foundations of Design and Print Production

Visual Design is a yearlong, project-based curriculum that develops career and communication skills in print production and graphic design, using Creative Suite 3 tools by Adobe.

Adobe Illustrator CS3 Classroom in a Book

Adobe Illustrator CS3 How-Tos: 100 Essential Techniques

This info-packed guide lets users get right down to work by focusing on the Illustrator CS3 features they're most likely to use and showcasing each in a stand-alone tip--complete with a relevant hint or two and a graphic example. Request your instructor copy from Adobe Press.

InDesign

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Learn InDesign CS4 - Introducing InDesign CS4

Construct sophisticated documents of any length, whether your output is to a printer or to a PDF, eBook, the Web, or Flash. Preview new InDesign features.

Learn InDesign CS4 - Understanding Flash integration

Create a rich layout in InDesign prior to exporting to XFL. Then add animation in Flash Professional.

Learn InDesign CS4 - Working with Smart Guides

Take advantage of Smart Guides when creating, moving, rotating, and aligning objects. Learn how to avoid clutter in your layout.

Teaching and Learning resources

Visual Design: Foundations of Design and Print Production

Visual Design is a yearlong, project-based curriculum that develops career and communication skills in print production and graphic design, using Adobe tools.

Adobe InDesign CS4 Classroom in a Book

Using step-by-step, project-based lessons, each chapter contains a project that builds upon the reader's growing knowledge of the program, while review questions at the end of each chapter reinforce the most important skills learned in each lesson. Request your instructor copy from Adobe Press.

Older resources

Visual Design: Foundations of Design and Print Production

Visual Design is a yearlong, project-based curriculum that develops career and communication skills in print production and graphic design, using Creative Suite 3 tools by Adobe.

Adobe InDesign CS3 Classroom in a Book

Creative Yearbook Design

This project offers methods for approaching creative illustration and design that were developed by 2 yearbook teams.

Yearbook Workflow

This project covers the basics of getting and setting up yearbook pages and is intended as a simple guide for yearbook teams or anyone who may be new to yearbook advisement.