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    Provide Adobe on personal devices and off campus

    Submitted 2 years ago by Benjamin Ware
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      Many of us on the Sports Journalism course are overly concerned about the detrimental impact that losing access to the Adobe apps and creative cloud from off campus will have on our course, placements, and current careers. For a start, most of our assignments require use of various Adobe software to complete with almost all work on assignments done from home, for example Talk Radio last year required Audition, Multimedia Sports Desk required Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere Pro and Audition, as many modules do. Not being able to complete this work from home will not only add costs of having to travel to campus but over holidays such as Christmas people will be 100+ miles away and unable to do anything during a time when they would normally devote days to doing assignments. We as Sports Journalism students also seem to be disproportionately affected given the nature of our course and placements and the reliance on the only software we've been taught to use over the last two years. With my role in charge of media at Cheltenham Town's Academy I am using most parts of Adobe daily and would be unable to do this on campus given the short notice nature of the game and the fact I am stood in a field at 11am on a Saturday trying to cover the U18s. Later in the day we'll have at least three students at Cheltenham Town's first team game using the Adobe Suite to cover the game, make graphics and later edit video and pictures, all of which we will no longer be able to do. In the last week alone I used Premiere Pro, Audition, Illustrator and Photoshop for one task. Needless to say, the loss of Adobe will lower the quality of what we are able to produce for and release to the public, creative a negative image for the university as it looks like the standard of what we can make is below par (if we can do it at all). Other courses will also be affected by this change, with other students in the media school losing access to software incredibly important for their courses with animation and journalism students voicing their concerns too. We're in the midst of a cost of living crisis and could possibly have to choose between eating and adobe, what is happening to the £9000 we already pay the uni?
    Samuel Godber
    3:12pm on 20 Sep 22 I think the university needs to realise this is a necessity for good productive work. It's a crying shame that Adobe has decided to do this.
    Charles Harding
    2:36pm on 22 Sep 22 I think being able to access adobe at home is a must
    Jake Brennan
    3:23pm on 22 Sep 22 Sharing c.30 computers in the media centre during peak times around assement deadlines with the entire creative industries school is completlely impractical. Using the CC suite on personal computers is essential both for coursework projects and placement projects.
    Ross Buchanan
    12:40am on 23 Sep 22 It is unrealistic to go to the uni every single time to further our knowledge. The cloud drastically helps with work placements and the stress of deadlines, as the media computers become few in number when everyone's editing periods are at the same time (across all courses and years).
    Max Roberts
    6:49pm on 23 Sep 22 There is such a large distance to travel on foot or by paying for transport every single day in order to chip away at editing long work opportunities that we get through the film production course, often via the university themselves. I, myself, have had to come in every day for long stretches of time to do these projects and there has even been one instance where the university campus has been locked unexpectedly and has impeded on my work. I think the workflow of my course and work opportunities has been affected by this uncommunicated change that came right in the middle of a large work experience opportunity I was on and I can’t see much of a reason why we aren’t able to continue getting this essential resource.
    Toby Ghebru
    9:42am on 9 Dec 22 Hi everyone! The SU have received some comms on the Adobe situation that we'd like to share with you. We can confirm that Adobe is available to all School of Arts students, but unfortunately not to the School of Creative Industries. Students have been signposted to other free software that work similarly to those within Adobe Creative Suite (e.g. Da Vinci, Audacity, Photo PS). Sam Roberts, Technical Manager will be in touch to see if training workshops are required around these pieces of software. If there is enough demand for them, the School of Creative Industries will agree to put on workshops for students sometime between week 6 and 7. This will be dependent on enough students signing up for them as they are additional to the main curriculum.
    Jeffrey Wielenga
    6:59pm on 23 Feb 23 As someone from the School of Arts I feel like that Adobe should be avalible to everyone, but then this is Adobe just wanting to make more money as with most companies programs like Autodesk 3DS Max why can't we go back to a time where personal software was a 1 time perchause.
    Jessica Medway
    12:17pm on 12 Aug 23 As someone from the school of arts. I also believe this software should be available to everyone. However they are taking it from us too. Us creative students are struggling to create essential aspects of out assignments because we no longer have remote access to adobe. We no longer have the one thing that persuaded hundreds of us to come to UOG making a lot of us wonder if this school ever cared about it’s students in the first place.
    Charles Raby
    5:27pm on 5 Oct 23 The prospect of losing this access is hugely troubling and I’d assume it was a priority for the university to resolve
    Caitlin Lewis
    3:05pm on 8 Oct 23 It's unfortunate to know that we have lost a resource that was greatly appreciated and extensively utilized by many. It is very distressing to think how many marks will be lost by the lack of adobe creative suit at home. Many students have a part-time job to cope with the cost of living, and don't have the time or resources to devote to travelling in more days than we already do. Its extremely frustrating and I feel as though we are not being heard!