About Box
Eligibility
Faculty, Staff, Students
Box is a cloud storage service available to UA students, faculty, and staff. Box is an easy-to-use, safe way to store and share files with colleagues at and outside of UA. Box can be used to store sensitive data, including HIPAA data as the University has a Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act Business Associate Agreement (HIPAA BAA) with Box to allow use for Protected Health Information. All Box servers are US-based.
Currently, Box offers unlimited storage to current UA students, faculty and staff. The maximum single file size to store on Box is 15GB. OIT does not recommend Box as an archive solution.
Box supports storage of most file types. Other file types can be stored in Teams or OneDrive. Box accounts cannot be applied to departmental accounts, only individual user accounts.
Box offers mobile apps to view, edit, create and share content on the go. All students, faculty, and staff will be provisioned a box account automatically upon request. After it has been provisioned, you can log into Box at box.ua.edu.
How to Obtain Box
About Your Account
Box accounts are provisioned automatically upon request for all students, faculty and staff. Users may log in to Box by visiting box.ua.edu. You will be redirected to a Microsoft login page for authentication, then back to Box. You may also log in from the Tech tab of myBama. If you have trouble accessing Box, please contact the IT Service Desk.
Logging In
Visit the link below to request your Box account. Log in with your crimson or UA email address and password credentials. Box utilizes DUO two-factor authentication.
Mobile Apps
Box is available on a number of platforms including iOS, Android, and many more. Users will be able to login to those apps using any email address attached to their account. Simply search for Box in your app store.
Box Drive
Box Drive is a simple way to work with all of your files right from your desktop, taking up very little hard drive space. Open your Windows Explorer or Mac Finder to find every file you need, edit like you would any local file and save it automatically to the cloud. And, keep enterprise-grade security protecting everything you do. Download Box Drive at box.com.
ELIGIBILITY AND COST
Current students, faculty and staff are all eligible to use UA Box at no cost.
LICENSING INFORMATION
The service is not available to alumni or former employees. When a user is no longer an active student, faculty, or staff, they will be given the opportunity to transition their UA Box account to a personal Box account.
SOFTWARE INFORMATION
All Box accounts must belong to an individual student, faculty or staff member. Co-ownership of folders is possible in Box, and suggested for important departmental folders owned by an individual.