Dropbox

Using Dropbox

Eligibility

You must be a currently enrolled student or active faculty/staff member to use CSUF Dropbox for Business with your campus account. 

 

Students

Dropbox allows students to access, store and share documents from any device.  The student Dropbox for Business offers  500 GB  of storage capacity. 

Upon graduating, students will have the option of purchasing Dropbox Pro at a discounted rate.

 

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Faculty / Staff

Dropbox allows faculty/staff to access, store and share documents from any device.  The faculty/staff Dropbox for Business offers unlimited storage capacity.

Get Started: New Accounts

Start setting up a new account by using one of the user type buttons below.  It will first log you in via the Campus Portal and then automatically start the process of setting up a Dropbox account.  Check out the start up guides for additional assistance.

Students

Students

New Accounts Guide for Students

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Faculty / Staff

Faculty / Staff

New Accounts Guide for Faculty / Staff

 

Get Started: Exisiting Accounts

If you think you might already have a current Dropbox account use the guides below to help convert that account to be used with your Campus account.  There's no mandate that you have just one Dropbox account so if you prefer to keep your Campus content separate from your personal account you can always follow the steps to create a new account.

Students

Students check for an existing account

Students Converting an exiting account to @CsuFullerton Dropbox

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Faculty / Staff

Faculty / Staff check for an existing account

Faculty / Staff Converting an exiting account to @Fullerton Dropbox

• If your personal account already uses your @fullerton.edu address, you will have the option of migrating these files to a new personal account using a different email address (@gmail.com, for example), or migrating these files to your CSUF Dropbox account.
• If you were using your CSU Fullerton email as your personal account, you should inform non-work collaborators of your new address, as anything shared in the future with your CSU Fullerton email will end up in your CSUF Dropbox.

 

User Guides

Students

IT Training has a guide series to get you up and running with Dropbox.  It will walk you through the steps to create your first account, or convert an existing one.  

Dropbox for Students

Dropbox for Canvas

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Faculty / Staff

IT Training has similar guides for Faculty / Staff who are working with Dropbox. These guides will help you link up an exiting account to your @Fullerton account, along with video tutorials on how to work with Dropbox.

Dropbox for Faculty and Staff

Dropbox for Canvas

 

Dropbox Team Folder

Campus departments wishing to have a Dropbox folder for collaborating with their staff, can request to have Dropbox Team folder setup for them.  A Team folder offers departments more centralized access and granular control over folder/file permissions than shared folders.  Refer to the guide below to learn more and how your Department IT Coordinator can submit a request.

Dropbox Team Folder

 

Additional help

Check out our guides on general use topics.  These will help you with thinks like accessing your account, using smart sync, and saving files to the cloud.

General Use of Dropbox

 

Dropbox has its own help center which you can use to discover more about the product and ways to use it.  Not all products may be available with your Campus account, so ask the Helpdesk for details.

Dropbox Help Center

Dropbox Security Features