What is Box.com?

Faculty Guide

Box Inc. is an online file sharing and personal cloud content management service. With your Tulane University credentials, faculty and staff can create an account which will provide you with 25 GB of free storage. Students do not have access to a Tulane provisioned Box account but may create personal accounts directly with Box with 10GB of storage.

Document Management:

Keep all your files in one place that you can access anywhere from any device.

  1. All your content will live in one place that you can access from your desktop or mobile device.
  2. You will be given access to specific department related folders and you can organize your private business content in your own folder tree.
  3. When your files are stored in Box you have a quick, easy and secure way to review version history and share your files internally or externally.

 

Collaboration and Group work spaces:

Are group projects a challenge – not the good kind? Are you bombarded with emails, making it tough to determine the latest file version? Box allows you to centralize files in a single online workspace.

  1. Invite your colleagues or clients to Share and Edit: Turn folders into shared online workspaces, invite people to view, edit and upload files and more.
  2. Do you have a client who you need to actively work on a long-term project with? Invite them into a folder to have a lasting working relationship. Learn more about inviting collaborators now.
  3. Post Comments and Assign Tasks: Whether you leave a quick comment or you want to assign a task, keep the whole team on track by exchanging feedback in one place. Instead of going back and forth in a long email chain, use comments to maintain the conversation history around your content in a single place.

 

Share and send large files

Using box will allow you to share files much larger than what you can with regular email. Replace email attachments by uploading your file to box and sending a url.

  1. You can create a unique link to any file or folder in your Box account.
  2. Send your links to anyone with or without a box account for view and/or download access
  3. Shared Links always point to the most up-to-date version of your file. When you make changes to your file, you do not need to resend the link.