Microsoft OneDrive

OneDrive is available to all faculty, staff, and students through Western's Office 365 Microsoft Campus Agreement. OneDrive is up to 5 TB of online storage in the Microsoft cloud where you can save, store, sync, and share files with the tools you use every day to create, communicate, and collaborate from your PC/Mac or your iOS®, Android™, or Windows device. Files can be created and modified with version tracking and file collaboration.

Disclaimer: Microsoft OneDrive is a cloud-hosted system and while its use is optional, all usage must comply with Western's Computing, Technology & Information Resources Policy and Data Classification Standards.

Get Started

Microsoft OneDrive allows you to access and edit your files on all your devices, keep your files protected in the cloud, share files and collaborate in Office.

Examples

Review common university examples for using OneDrive.

Files in OneDrive

Use OneDrive to add and upload, manage, secure, protect and restore your files.

How to Share Files

Use OneDrive to share your files with colleagues to collaborate.

Request Files Using OneDrive

Use OneDrive to request users to upload files to you securely.

Syncing and Securing your Data

Local synced copies of your data do not meet Western's data classification standard or data handling procedures for sensitive and confidential information. Find out best practices for securing your data.

Restoring Files and Versions

OneDrive allows for restoring files that were deleted by accident and restoring versions of files to go back to certain points.

Restore your OneDrive

In the case that you ever lose a large amount of files or your OneDrive, you can restore it to undo any changes within a timeframe.

Share and Collaborate

Share files and folders, see files you shared, edit a shared file, use @mentions

Mobile and Mac for OneDrive

Set up OneDrive for iOS, Android, Windows and Mac

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