There are two types of licenses that can be purchased - Named User License and Shared Device License. The following is a breakdown of the difference between these two types of licenses.

Named User License

A named user license would be the preferred platform if a single user wants a license. The benefit of this type of license is you can load the suite on 2 different machines. A named user license is associated with an adobe personal account. The personal account utilizes a UCSD users email address.

When this type of license is purchased campus will email the user that a license has been provisioned for them and to setup a personal adobe account. The user will get a web link in the email to go to for the account setup. Once the account is setup the user will be able to install the various applications they want to use. Installation is done per application. The user will want to first install the Creative Cloud app and then install the various applications they want. The Creative Cloud app will retain their user login information and pass it along to the applications as they are opened. This means they will not need to continually authenticate when they are using an application.

NOTE: If a user has already create a personal account associated with their UCSD email address and or credit card they will need to change the email address on that account to something other then their UCSD email address. This will free up their UCSD email address to create a new personal account that will associated with the UCSD assigned license.

Shared Device License

A shared device license would be the preferred platform for individual machines that have multiple users (such as a lab computer) that need to use the creative cloud suite applications. A shared device license will utilize a package that was specifically created by the department IT team. If a group utilized ITS for their IT support then an ITS ticket should be submitted for one of their IT folks to get the suite installed.

NOTE: A license for either package allows for all of the applications to be installed. It will require 40+ gigs of space to install the whole suite. Selected applications can be installed if a custom package is created. If a paired down list of apps needs to be installed that should be conveyed to the IT folks doing the installation.

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