How To

Question

• How to get Adobe products installed on my college-owned device?​​​​​​
  • Acrobat Pro is listed in Creative Cloud  as Acrobat; it is named differently in the Cloud.
  • Many other apps are available (ie., Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator, Lightroom Classic, etc...)

Steps

• Adobe Creative Cloud is available for your college-owned device in Software Center
• Once the authorization has been granted, you are free to begin the installation with the instructions below.
• IMPORTANT: If you have an version of Acrobat Reader, you must uninstall the Reader first.  (Service Desk can assist)
• IMPORTANT: If you have an older version of Acrobat Pro or Creative cloud, make sure you log out of it first.

• Close ALL Microsoft products before installing Adobe products.
  • Outlook
  • PowerPoint
  • Excel
  • Word
• Sign OUT of Microsoft Teams before installing
• If working from home, connect to VPN before the next step
• If you do not have VPN, please contact the service desk for installation.
• Type in software center in the start menu on the device and click on it.
• Under Applications,  find Adobe – Creative Cloud Desktop App and click on it.
• Click on Install and follow the prompts.

• Once installed, open the icon that looks the same as above and sign in.
• Use your school email (@anokaramsey.edu or @anokatech.edu) and click continue.

• If prompted, select Company or School account

• Enter your StarId and password

• The next page will say Welcome to your account.
• Click on: View plan details or Access your apps and services.

• Included applications and service will now appear.
• Click on the download button to view the available apps to install
• Click on Install to begin dowloading apps needed.

• The image above is a small sample of apps available but not all.
• Creative Cloud will check the system for already installed apps. A popup notification may give information to follow if there are already older Creative Cloud apps installed.
• Please follow any directions received.
• Adobe discourages downloading more apps than needed.  Creative Cloud takes up a lot of space on a device.
• To use any of the apps installed on your device, open the Creative Cloud Desktop Icon on your desktop.
• If at any time an Adobe product needs to be signed into again, follow directions listed above to sign in.
• Detailed instructions for all products are available under Attachments