BYU Box is a cloud content management tool, allowing you to access your content securely anywhere, on any device.

BYU Box enables you to collaborate and share content between multiple departments in one simple tool.

See Box's Migrating Content from Dropbox to Box guide.

See Box's Migrating Content from Google Apps guide.

Active BYU faculty, staff, and students are eligible to use Box. Affiliate accounts are not eligible.

Your BYU Box account will be set up when you first login with your NetID and password here.

Yes. Box offers a suite of applications, allowing you to access your files from numerous locations and devices.

Upon graduation, you will receive an email notifying you that BYU will be migrating your account to a personal account. We recommend adding a secondary non @byu.edu email address on your account before your account migrates to a personal account. 15 days after you receive this email, your account will be automatically migrated to a personal account with a 50 GB quota. If your account contains more than 50GB, it will become read-only until you delete enough content that you are below this quota or you purchase additional space from Box. After your account has been migrated, we recommend changing the primary email address so that you continue to receive notifications from Box. For further questions, please contact BYU IT Support at 801‑422‑4000.

Upon leaving BYU, you will receive an email about migrating your Box account to a personal account. We recommend adding a secondary non @byu.edu email address at this time to your account. BYU owned data should be saved in a service account for the organization you were a part of. This data will stay with BYU. The data owned by your account will remain a part of that account as it is migrated out of BYU's enterprise account. When your account is migrated out of BYU, it will become a personal account with a 50GB quota. If your account has exceeded this quota, it will become read-only until you either delete enough data to be below the quota or purchase additional storage from Box. After your account has been migrated, we recommend changing the primary email address so that you continue to receive notifications from Box. For further questions, please contact BYU IT Support at 801‑422‑4000.

Your Unlimited BYU Box account will automatically turn into a regular 50 GB Box account that will no longer be associated with BYU. You will be asked to change your primary email address to a non-'@byu.edu' email address. If your Box account is less than 50GB, you will experience little change in functionality or usability (See "What's the difference between BYU Box accounts and Box Free accounts?" for more details). However, If you have greater than 50GB stored in your Box account after leaving the University, you will still be able to access your files, but you will not be allowed to upload more, or make changes to documents already stored in Box. Your files will become Read-Only and you may only view or download them. If you wish to maintain full functionality of your Box account, you may contact Box and upgrade to a paying account.

Persons who did not change their email address when they left BYU may still log into their Box account through Box.com. They will not be able to receive emails from Box as they will not have access to their 'NetID@byu.edu' email alias.

When you try to log into box.byu.edu using your NetID@byu.edu, it won't work. Why? BYU creates your BYU Box account upon your first login. Because Box shows that there is already an account in existence for your NetID@byu.edu, BYU is unable to create a new account for you. But, If you didn't change your email before you left, no problem! All you have to do to use Box again is log into your Box.com account (with your NetID@byu.edu) and change the Primary Email address there to something other than your NetID@byu.edu, and then delete the NetID@byu.edu address from the account. After you delete the NetID@byu.edu email address, you can then go to box.byu.edu and sign in there. Your BYU Box account is now ready to use!

You should be able to access your BYU Box account anywhere you have full access to the internet. In countries where internet access is restricted (i.e. China, Russia, Iran, etc...), Box may not be available. If you need to access your files in these remote locations, you should use Box Sync and sync the files that you would like to use while abroad. When you again have full access to the internet, your files will sync and they will be saved in the cloud. Another way to try to get around this block is via a VPN (Virtual Private Network). If you VPN back to the United States, you should be able to access and sync Box.

BYU Box accounts:

•Unlimited storage in the cloud
•Maximum upload size of 15 GB for a single file
•File versioning
•Password protected sharing

Box Free accounts:

•50 GB of free cloud storage
•250 MB maximum upload size for a single file
•You cannot do password protected sharing
•No detailed file version history

See Box's Getting Started Guide for New Users. It explains all of Box's basic features, including uploading, syncing, and sharing/permissions.

There are two ways: create a shared link or invite collaborators (read more on the difference here). When inviting individuals to collaborate, use their netId@byu.edu.

Yes. BYU Box deleted files are kept in your Trash folder for 90 days.

The following data should not be stored in Box:

•Data secured on PCI-DSS (Credit Card Info)
•Federally Protected Research Data (e.g., CUI)
•Those subject to federal export controls

Box is FERPA and HIPAA compliant. If you have any additional questions about what data should be stored in Box, please contact the data steward for your organization.

Personal data can be stored in your BYU Box account.

Yes, you can lock files in Box. You can not lock folders.

Box Drive brings your entire Box folder tree to your desktop, for an experience similar to using your desktop environment to manage content. Box Drive takes up very little space on your hard drive, so you can then search and access all your content. Have further questions? Reference Box's Using Box Drive on iOS and Using Box Drive on Windows guides.

Box Sync and Box Drive are separate desktop applications that allow you to access your content from your desktop environment. You should not use both applications concurrently. To determine which tool best supports your use case, see Box's Box Drive vs. Box Sync guide.

Box for Office is a Windows-only add-on tool that integrates your Box at BYU account into the Microsoft Office suite (including Microsoft Outlook). Once you install Box for Office, you can share files, convert attachments, and more, directly from your favorite Microsoft Office applications.

Box offers a native application for iOS, Android, Windows, and Blackberry devices. You can install each from the requisite App Store.