An Adobe License Agreement was executed in April 2017 and expires April 17, 2020. Under the agreement, the products are broken down under four different licensing scenarios and multiple payment schedules depending on date of purchase. Those four product breakdowns are:
Three colleges/schools at UT collectively purchased a number of student, named user Creative Cloud licenses from Adobe. Moody College was a part of this agreement.
These licenses are being resold to students via the "Personal Use" links on the Campus Computer Store's online portal. Any current student can purchase a 12-month subscription that begins when a license is activated. For more information on student licensing, see the Moody Technology Blog.
Five colleges/schools/units at UT collectively committed to annually purchase a number of Creative Cloud faculty/staff licenses for three years. Moody College was a part of this agreement.
Additional faculty/staff licenses, regardless of CSU, can be purchased with university funds for the period from the date of purchase through April 17, 2020.
Departments and Units in the Moody College will contact Moody Technology Services for licensing and installation. The Moody Tech Team will add and assign named user accounts using the Adobe Enterprise web tools and will maintain a Smartsheet of active users, organized by department.
Here is the workflow for installing Adobe Creative Cloud on a a computer using an Adobe Named User account
Adobe Creative Cloud Managed Licensing and Installation Workflow
The annual bill for renewal comes due every April until 2020 and will be paid centrally by the Moody College with VT6 corrections to departmental accounts for their the portion of faculty/staff named licenses. Current pricing is based on the date when licenses are purchased following this pricing schedule.
In order to minimize the number of VT6 transactions, we are asking Moody departments to provide lists of users who need Adobe CC annually. Each March will inform a new VT6 for the year of those that have enrolled in the intervening months. The goal is to limit VT6 corrections to once a year. (If using a grant account, please let us know the account's end date so we can process a VT6 before then).
There are efforts underway to have this agreement's pricing set up with Campus Computers and UT Market. As these UT Market changes unfold, this purchasing method may change from the VT6 method to the standard UT Market shopping experience and those changes will be outlined here. If this new model goes through, a slight increase in the prices listed above will be required to cover the administrative costs incurred by Campus Computers
In summary staff members need to have their department Admins send scott calhoun scott.calhoun@austin.utexas.edu an email with the department billing account # to be billed, plus an email and an EID of the person needing the software
Creative Cloud Lab/Classroom Licenses (device)
Four colleges/schools/units collectively committed to annually purchase a number of licenses (device) for three years. Moody College was a part of this agreement.
Additional lab/classroom licenses, regardless of CSU, can be purchased with university funds for the period from the date of purchase through April17, 2020. The Moody Technology Team manages the licensing and installation of Adobe CC in Moody computer labs. Device licenses only apply to open, multi-user computer labs and not to research labs. Device licensing follows the purchasing schedule below.
For Moody faculty and staff who only need Acrobat's functionality and nothing else from the Creative Suite, Adobe offers an Acrobat Pro DC (Document Cloud) license for named users. As of mid-September 2017 the Moody College does not have any Acobat Pro DC only users.
The Dell Medical School committed to annually purchase 120 Acrobat Pro faculty/staff licenses for three years. Additional faculty/staff licenses, regardless of CSU, can be purchased with university funds for the period from the date of purchase through April17, 2020.
The pricing schedule for Acrobat Pro DC is:
In summary staff members need to have their department Admins send scott calhoun scott.calhoun@austin.utexas.edu an email with the department billing account # to be billed, plus an email and an EID of the person needing the software