Oregon State University offers many different cloud storage locations: Microsoft OneDrive, Box, and Google Drive.

All of your different storage locations can be managed by Kumo (OSU lab computers and desktops only). Instructions for setting up Kumo are available at http://it.engineering.oregonstate.edu/kumo

 

Microsoft OneDrive

https://uit.oregonstate.edu/office365

Microsoft OneDrive is the primary cloud storage location at Oregon State University.

OneDrive offers 5TB of cloud storage space.

Through OneDrive, you can either create or upload files. From there, they can be shared with collaborators.

When you leave the university files need to be transferred to a personal account or to another OSU student or they will be lost.

For instructions and help for OneDrive visit: https://oregonstate.teamdynamix.com/TDClient/1935/Portal/KB/?CategoryID=6879

Box

http://box.oregonstate.edu/

Box offers Unlimited storage space.

Files and folders can be uploaded to Box. When uploading files and folders, they cannot be bigger than 15GB in size. From there they can be shared with collaborators.

Using Box integration with Microsoft Office and Google Web Apps, files can be created and edited within the Box browser.

After you leave the university, files can be transferred to a personal account or your OSU Box account can be changed to a free account.

  • If you are over the storage limit (5GB for a free account) when changing to a free account, Box allows you to keep all your files but you cannot edit or add more files till you are lower than the limit.

For instructions and help for Box visit this FAQ: http://box.oregonstate.edu/support-box-faq

We also have a page with some helpful info for Linux users who want to use Box.

Google Drive

https://drive.google.com/

Google Drive only offers 2GB of cloud storage space for most users (some users may be grandfathered into a higher limit plan).

Through the various Google Drive Apps, you can either create or upload files. From there, they can be shared with 

collaborators.

Not only can files be shared but folders can be also - giving collaborators of a folder access to all files in the folder without sharing each individual file.

When you leave the university files need to be transferred to a personal account or to another OSU student or they will be lost.

For instructions and help for Google drive visit: https://is.oregonstate.edu/td-service/google-drive

If your Google Drive is capped at 1.99 GB and you require more space, please use OneDrive in the Microsoft 365 suite instead. Instructions on migrating files from Google Drive to OneDrive are available here.