The process for MIT faculty, staff and students differs from the process for affiliates. Affiliates can be given access if a faculty or staff member requests it on their behalf. Undergraduate students should contact their undergraduate administrator to review options, only if the high level of use is directly related to classwork.įor general Dropbox support, please contact or your local IT support provider.įor an overview of Dropbox and other data storage options, see: Data Storage and Collaboration Options.
Graduate students that may have large amounts of data related to their academic or research pursuits can work with their advisor and/or department graduate administrator to review options for obtaining additional storage. You can also provide both read and write access to other Dropbox users.ĭropbox is primarily intended to be a mechanism for sharing data rather than storing or archiving large data sets. Dropbox also lets you share portions of your cloud storage, with a number of different protection/authentication schemes. With the Dropbox client, you can access your cloud data as though it was a folder on your local disk. Dropbox for Business provides the MIT community with large storage capacity and convenient access to data via Windows, MacOS, Linux and mobile native clients as well as via any web browser. IS&T has licensed the Dropbox for Business service for the entire MIT community. Registration is accomplished with .įiles are accessed with or the Dropbox app.ĭropbox is a cloud-storage company founded by two MIT students.
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