Case Study: Academy of Art University achieves industry-standard creative skills and streamlined publishing with Adobe InDesign

Academy of Art University prepares students for successful careers in creative disciplines with Adobe solutions

Academy of Art University, a San Francisco art school with about 13,000 students, needed to prepare students for creative careers by providing industry-standard tools, standardizing software across courses, centralizing course materials, and streamlining HR paperwork. To meet those challenges the university turned to Adobe InDesign and related Adobe solutions—including Adobe Creative Cloud for enterprise, Adobe Experience Manager (Sites and Mobile), and Adobe Sign (integrated with Workday)—to modernize teaching, learning, and administration.

Using an Adobe InDesign–led deployment via an Enterprise Term License, every student, faculty, and staff member gained access to Creative Cloud on personal devices or 600 campus computers, students adopted mobile apps like Adobe Capture CC, Experience Manager enabled responsive web and mobile magazine production, and Adobe Sign automated instructor agreements with Workday. The result, delivered by Adobe InDesign and its ecosystem, was faster content creation and consistent branding, enhanced student creativity and learning with industry tools, agreements signed in minutes, and more than 45 custom components built to improve course design.

Academy of Art University

Jason Shaeffer

Vice President of Online Education