The University provides a range of Software for staff to use including the Microsoft Office suite and Adobe Creative Cloud. If you have custom software needs that are not covered by standard IT offerings, please contact us to discuss.
Pedestal 3D
The Faculty of Arts has a full license of Pedestal 3D for sharing and using 3D models online. For access or support, please contact us.
Adobe Creative Cloud
All staff members of the FoA are invited to get creative with the tools from Adobe creative cloud.
Adobe Creative Cloud is free for all professional and academic staff members AND all students in the Faculty of Arts.
You have access to the latest creative applications for photography, design, web and video - including Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Dreamweaver and more.
Please see link to download help here and to self help tutorials here .
The Adobe Creative Cloud is a full featured industry standard set of software for digital media including images, audio, video, animation, websites, print publications and even 3D.
Looking for the ARTS ADOBE PORTAL for student support? See here
Licensing schemes
Macquarie University has several concurrent schemes to provide access to the Adobe Creative Cloud to the convocation. None of these schemes limit which subset of tools are available. All tools are available through all schemes.
There are two generic types of licenses.
- Floating license. This can be used on up to any 2 devices at the same time and requires sign in using you Macquarie email and single sign on. You may install on more devices but one of the 2 needs to be signed out first to use.
- Device locked license. This can only be used on the device it is installed by and must be installed by University IT staff. As such, it can only be installed on University computers. To use the Creative Cloud on these devices, ANY Adobe ID can be used (paid or free, personal or staff/student)
STAFF
All staff have access to a floating license of the full Creative Cloud desktop suite and associated web applications using single sign on (Okta). This allows staff to use the application on up to two computers at any given time and transfer to other computers an unlimited number of times.
COMPUTER LABS
All Macquarie run computer labs have access to the full Creative Cloud desktop suite. (NOTE: The full suite may not be installed however. Please check before taking classes that the software you need is installed and request new installs through OneHelp. These are device locked licenses and will require sign on with ANY Adobe account (Okta or personal including free accounts). In the Faculty of Arts precinct, we have also created a specific DIGILAB comprising of 20 large screen latest iMac computers with the full suite pre-installed.
STUDENTS
The Faculty of Arts currently has a generous number of floating licenses of the full Creative Cloud desktop suite and associated web applications for students enrolled in select Faculty of Arts units. These licenses are deployed to students on a semester by semester basis based on pedagogical needs within the units themselves. When a student is not studying one of these units, the licenses will be revoked so that other students that do require it for study can benefit.
NOTE: To enable a fair and needs based deployment, the Faculty has developed a process for allocation which will run early in each semester. Please contact your Department/School Education Support Officer for more information.
Types of software
Adobe software is very flexible and integrated, however, we have grouped the tools into the following families to enable support and task design efficiencies. We encourage brave and innovative use in new ways as well and are always interested in emerging new assessment types.
Application Family |
Applications |
Types of Assessments suggested |
| Time-based media | Adobe Premiere Pro (and Rush) Adobe Media Encoder Adobe Audition |
Video production Video presentations Podcasts Digital Stories Demonstrations Interviews Vocal tasks |
| Motion Graphics & Animation | Adobe After Effects Adobe Animate Adobe Character Animator Adobe Mixamo |
Infographics - motion Concept explanation How-to videos |
| Photography | Adobe Photoshop Adobe Lightroom |
Object studies Technical Photography Fieldwork photography Creative Photography Photogrammetry |
| Design & Illustration | Adobe Illustrator Adobe Dimension Adobe XD Adobe Fresco |
Infographics – still Diagrams Concept explanation Interfaces |
| Publishing & Presentation | Adobe InDesign Adobe Dreamweaver Adobe Acrobat Abobe Portfolio Adobe Spark |
Infographics – interactive Posters and flyers Rich documents Web sites Interactive and digital stories |