Access Your Account
OIT automatically creates Box accounts for students, faculty and staff. Log into your account at box.ua.edu.
Adding Email Addresses to Box
Box is a collaboration and cloud storage tool service available to all University of Alabama UA students, faculty, students and staff. For faculty and staff, Box accounts are set up with your myBama username@ua.edu as your email address by default. Students’ @crimson.ua.edu email addresses are automatically added. To set up your Box account to properly handle collaboration requests that are sent to your email aliases, the aliases need to be added to your Box Account Settings.
Log in to your UA Box account.
In the top right corner, click on account icon or photo.
From the menu that appears, choose Account Settings.
Locate the Login and Email Addresses section and choose Add Email.
In the field that appears, enter the email address you would like to affiliate with your Box account and choose Save.
Box will send a verification message to the new email address. Check the email for the address you have added and choose Verify Email to confirm the address.
If a verification email from Box is not present, check Spam or Junk Mail folders or return to the Box account settings and choose Resend Confirmation.
After the new address has been verified, you will receive an email confirmation and notification the next time you log in to UA Box.
Adjusting Individual Folder Notification Settings
Log into Box, then select the folder that you’d like to receive notifications for.
Click on the More Options (3 dots) link next to the folder name, then the Settings link.
This will open the Settings page for the folder. At the very bottom of that page, you’ll see the Emails and Notifications settings that can be adjusted.
Click Override default settings for this folder and all subfolders.
Select the actions you want notifications for, then Save Changes.
Adding Your Class Roster as Collaborators
UA Box allows for the addition of other users (Collaborators) to folders created in Box. This is a great way to share content with specific people. To share a Box folder only with students in a particular class, you can download their emails from the class roster in MyBama and add them to the folder as collaborators.
NOTE: These instructions assume your default email client is Outlook. For this technique to work in Outlook for Windows, you will need to copy a semicolon-delimited file from myBama. To select a semicolon-delimited file:
Log into myBama, open the Faculty tab, click the Faculty & Advisors link, then the Select Email Delimiter link.
In the Select Delimiter dialog, click Semi-colon and press Submit.
Close the Select Email Delimiter tab in your browser to return to myBama.
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In myBama, click the Faculty tab, then the Faculty & Advisors link in the Banner Self Service channel.
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Select Summary Class List.
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In the Select Term window that appears, select the correct term and press Submit.
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In the Select a CRN window that opens, select the class roster you’d like to copy and press Submit.
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The Class Roster will appear. Click the Email Class Link (or icon) at the bottom of the roster.
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This will open your default email application, create a new message, and populate the BCC field with the email addresses for your class.
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Click in the BCC field, and Select All (ctrl+A), then select Copy (ctrl+C) to copy the list of addresses. Log into Box. Select the folder you’d like to share with your students, then click on the Share button and select Invite Collaborators.
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In the Invite to Folder dialog box, paste the copied email addresses ( ctrl+V), and select the invitee permissions level you’d like for the students to have.
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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. To access your Box account, visit box.ua.edu. Visit our knowledge base for Box tips including how to add email aliases to your Box account.