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The college began a VIP License Agreement with Adobe after the campus-wide enterprise initiative failed between Adobe and all of UT Campus.  For context, some high-ed campuses like ACC are able to call themselves Adobe Creative Campuses because they have entered a partnership with Adobe where the entirety of a campus is involved for a reduced cost.    UT could reach consensus across the board for this.    Instead, each college or unit are left to negotiate their best pricing.   In the case of Moody, we consolidate the purchase across all Moody units to get the best tier pricing (Tier 4) that we can.    Moody's anniversary date each year for renewal is June 1st.  It was moved from April from the Enterprise license so that mid-semester interruptions did not take place in labs in the event of renewal problems. 

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A bulk purchase is made each May for the renewal date of June 1st.  More on that below. 

Past that renewal date, additional licenses can be purchased at a different price point which is prorated depending on when it is purchased in the year.  The general procedure is thusfollows:

• A request comes to the Moody Help Desk for either the Creative Cloud Suite or Acrobat.  If the request is for a new person that is replacing someone who already had Adobe for that position, the license can be transferred by the Adobe Admin by simply removing the old user from the Adobe console , and adding the new user under the appropriate product sku.  Many requests are managed this way because many positions in the college are already equipped with Adobe.  
• If there's no existing license to transfer to the new request, an email is sent to Michael Hill at Campus Computers and cc'ing Department Sales requesting a prorated VIP license quote for Moody, either for Creative Suite or Acrobat for Moody.   Michael knows our VIP account and is the one who helped manage its initial setup and renewal every year.   It  In the email it helps to put include the name and department of the licensee in the body of the email as in "...this is for Person Lastname in the Department of XYZ".   Listing the name of user is not for Campus Computers' sake; it is for whomever is sending the email and managing Adobe so you have an email chain of whom you've taken care of.
• Michael (or Department Sales) send sends you a Campus Computer store quote, the quote number for which, you plug into a UT Market via the Campus Computer portal and the Campus Computer their quote option.  You finish out the UT Market cart by labeling the cart and the cart notes with the end user's name like "Adobe for Person Lastname" and assigning to the purchaser for that department.   

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• The departmental purchaser finalizes and approves the purchase on their end and a PO is generated in the UT Market system.   
• Once a PO is assigned, Campus Computers notifies Adobe or of payment and our VIP license count is increased by one or however many were purchasedAdobe.
• The Adobe Admin can now add the end user to the Adobe console by their UT or KUT email address  and Adobe will kick off an email welcoming them to Adobe and requesting them to set a password.  The person's UT or KUT email is their AdobeID.

NOTE:  It is possible and allowed to add Adobe users to the console before the purchase is finalized.  This is not advised however.   Purchasing problems occur, people change their minds, some are not approved, etc...  Walking back purchases and removing access is never fun.    Also, you can get ahead of yourself and , especially if multiple purchase requests sometimes come at the same time.  You need to be able to easily figure out who's purchase as gone through and who's has not.  Because of that, it helps to stick to a methodical process AND also keeping Adobe administration to one or two people at most.   If there are too many cooks in the kitchen, you can quickly lose track of who's on first.   That's right, I mixed my metaphors. 

Adobe Product Breakdown

Acrobat Pro is the only Adobe product we purchase by itself.  We only purchase Acrobat by itself if that's the only Adobe product a person will need which is often the case for the editing of PDFs. 

The Creative Suite includes Acrobat so if an Acrobat user needs another Adobe app, they should get the Suite.  All other Adobe apps fall under the Creative Cloud Suite purchase.  You get one, you get all.   

Adobe products for named users can be bought at four different price skus but they show up as three products in the console.    They are:

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Besides these named user license options, we also purchase Shared Device Licenses for the labs.  in 2023 we have 218 total licenses.  Besides the labs it covers a 13 seats in KUT and TSM but the bulk are for Moody non-research computer labs. 

The Adobe management console does not show pricing.  Pricing varies across the globe depending on your pricing tier and agreements.  Adobe also reserves the right to change pricing so there's no guarantee from one year to the next.  

Examples of pricing for our VIP Agreement for 2023:

• Creative Cloud All Apps Student License original promo pricing:  $142.99 per person annually
• Creative Cloud All Apps standard edu pricing Tier 4: $251.99 per person annually (prorated and price decreases at time of purchase as the year progresses)
• Acrobat Pro: $122.99 per person annually (prorated throughout the year)

Adobe Annual Renewal

The Moody College's annual Adobe renewal is an aggregated purchase across all units.  Annual renewal is a primarily a shepherding process for getting departments to renew for their users at the same time.   Starting Starting late April the Adobe admin contacts department admins and purchasers to get their approval on Adobe users for their department.   When that list is approved, the numbers are sent to Michael Hill/Campus Computers requesting a PO quote for each department.   Those POs quotes are processed through UT Market and sent back to departments for actual purchase and POs.   The process must be shepherded and all purchases completed with POs by the end of May to complete renewal and avoid disruption of service for users.  Any department that doesn't complete the purchase on time will have a break in service for their users and will have to buy in at the higher standard edu pricing for each user.  

Additional licenses of "Creative Cloud All Apps" that have been purchased within the last year can be bundled in groups of 25 to bring and brought into the All Apps Student License and added , adding to those totals for that the better original promo pricing.  In that process, 25 name named user licenses are selected with deference given to academic departments first.   Those 25 are added to the Moody Tech Team purchase because all 25 must be paid for on the same PO.  Windy Hardeway and Moody Accounting then IDT departments for their small part of that number so that Moody Tech is reimbursed. 

Spreadsheets that help organize and track that process are shared in Box with the Help Desk.  They could be converted to an online Excel version as read-only shared with admins to help simplify the renewal process each year.  It could be updated too to help keep departments informed of their users.  However, working for Adobe and managing their users is something for which Adobe doesn't pay us unfortunately.   It It is possible to specify admins for specific groups I believe in the Adobe console so this task could be distributed .  That could get uglybut license pools are still one big number so having many dept admins could get confusing and messy.