“Adobe will block Flash content running on Flash Player starting January 12, 2021.
“We did have some tickets initially saying, ‘Oh my gosh, this is broken, what happened?’ It just became a communication effort for us,” Riker, JAKARTA – Adobe announced that they will no longer provide support for Flash Player after December 31, 2020, and users are advised to remove the program from their computers to secure the system before the Janublockade. Riker also notified teachers to be on the lookout for any Flash-based tools they were using in their own classrooms that might stop working, particularly on Chrome browsers. His team then began working with education companies such as Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Edmentum, and BrainPop to ensure that they were transitioning their Flash-based games to a new platform. Upon learning that Flash would be ending, Riker ran an internal analysis and found that his school district’s internal systems didn’t have any Flash-based tools. Many ed-tech companies offered games and interactive tools that ran on Flash.
(For more information, check out Adobe’s FAQ page. In a recent interview, he shared the work he’s been doing behind the scenes, and offered some words of wisdom for any school employees who haven’t been following the gradual demise of Flash. Todd Riker, chief technology officer for the Pike Township school district in Indiana, has been paying attention to the end of Flash since it was announced.
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