Creative Cloud

Adobe Creative Cloud gives you access to the entire collection of creative apps and up to 100GB of Adobe Cloud storage.

Purchasing Adobe Creative Cloud

A Named User license can be purchased for Institutional use via a department chargeback. Please give our Help Desk a call to purchase a license.

Adobe Creative Cloud can be installed on as many computers as you wish, but only two of them can be activated at any given time. If you attempt to activate a third computer, you will receive a notification and an opportunity to deactivate one of the other instances.

Installing Adobe Creative Cloud

  1. Click here to open Software Center
    or
    Open the Start Menu and search for "Software Center"
    Software Center
    Inside Software Center, search for "Adobe Creative Cloud". 
    Install Adobe Creative Cloud from Software Center
    Click Install
    Your screen may momentarily black out during the install. If the screen stays black for longer than 10 minutes, please give our Help Desk a call.
  2. After the install finishes, launch the Adobe Creative Cloud application. You will be prompted with a Sign In screen, enter your full Stockton email address.
    Enter full email address
    If prompted, choose Enterprise ID
    Choose Enterprise ID
    Sign in with your goPortal username and password
    Adobe Creative Cloud CAS
  3. Once you are logged in, navigate to the Apps tab. You will see a full list of the apps available to you under your Named User license. Each app will need to be installed individually.
    Install Creative Cloud apps
  1. Open Managed Software Center
  2. Search for "Adobe CC Self-Managed". Click Install
  3. After the install finishes, launch the Adobe Creative Cloud application. You will be prompted with a Sign In screen, enter your full Stockton email address.
    Enter full email address
    If prompted, choose Enterprise ID
    Choose Enterprise ID
    Sign in with your goPortal username and password
    Adobe Creative Cloud CAS
  4. Once you are logged in, navigate to the Apps tab. You will see a full list of the apps available to you under your Named User license. Each app will need to be installed individually.
  1. In a web browser, go to https://www.adobe.com and click Sign In in the top right
  2. Enter your full Stockton email address
    Enter full email address
    If prompted, choose Enterprise ID
    Choose Enterprise ID
    Sign in with your goPortal username and password
    Adobe Creative Cloud CAS
  3. Click on Desktop Downloads 
    Desktop downloads
  4. Under the Creative Cloud section, click Download
    Download Creative Cloud App
  5. Install the Adobe Creative Cloud Desktop App to your computer. From here, you will need to sign in again using the steps above.
  6. Once you are logged in, navigate to the Apps tab. You will see a full list of the apps available to you under your Named User license. Each app will need to be installed individually.
    Install Creative Cloud apps

Adobe Creative Cloud in the Lab

Adobe allows us to install Creative Cloud in our labs with a Shared Device license. These Shared Device licenses give anyone who logs onto the computer access to Adobe's products and services. In order to activate Adobe Creative Cloud, you will need to also log in to the Creative Cloud Desktop App using your goPortal credentials.

For a list of computer labs that have Creative Cloud installed, please see our Lab Applications.

  1. Launch the Creative Cloud Desktop App or any Creative Cloud App
  2. Enter your full Stockton email address
    Enter full email address
    If prompted, choose Enterprise ID
    Choose Enterprise ID
    Sign in with your goPortal username and password
    Adobe Creative Cloud CAS

Getting Started