One Drive FAQs

NOTE: Later this Summer / Early Fall, Microsoft will be pushing out an updated OneDrive on the Web experience. To learn more about these upcoming changes, please see their announcement on their OneDrive blog.

 

What is OneDrive?

OneDrive is UC's supported cloud-based file storage platform designed to allow users to securely store, share, manage, and access files online anytime, anywhere, from any device. 

 

Who can use OneDrive?

All current students, staff and faculty of the Nelson Mandela University have access to a free OneDrive account. If you are not a currently enrolled student but are registered for classes, you must wait for the start of your registered term to access OneDrive. Nelson Mandela University affiliates or contractors will need to request access in order to get a OneDrive account. UC affiliates or contractors must have an active UCMail account in order to request access to OneDrive.

 

Why should I use OneDrive?

OneDrive is free to all students, staff and faculty.

OneDrive includes the ability to easily collaborate with colleagues with advanced sharing and security features.

OneDrive is fully integrated with all other Office 365 applications

OneDrive enables access all of your files from any computer or device from anywhere in the world.

 

How much storage do I have?

All OneDrive users have 5 TB of storage with their account. There is, however, a file size limit of 15 GB per file on OneDrive. OneDrive also supports most file types.

 

How can I start using OneDrive?

Your OneDrive account is automatically setup once your email account is created. To access OneDrive, Login to Office365.

 

Click on the App Launcher.

 

Select OneDrive from the app launcher menu.

 

 

 

Where is my data stored on OneDrive?

OneDrive data is stored securely in the cloud by Office 365. The Nelson Mandela University has entered a business associate agreement with Microsoft, which assures that OneDrive data does not leave the United States and is fully encrypted on upload, storage and download.

 

What if I leave the University?

Students will be able to access their OneDrive accounts as long as their student email remains active. Staff and faculty accounts will be disabled upon leaving the university.

 

Does OneDrive replace FileSpace storage?

No, OneDrive is not a full replacement for FileSpace. OneDrive is the preferred alternative to the file storage portion of FileSpace due to OneDrive’s increased storage, sharing and security features. OneDrive at Neson Mandela Universityt doesn’t replace FileSpace’s web hosting, MySQL, Unix command line shell scripting and blog/wiki creation.

 

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