Purdue Box FAQ

Where do I log into Purdue Box?

https://purdue.box.com   { log in with Duo }

What Is Purdue Box?

Box is a cloud-based file storage and collaboration service. It provides users with the ability to upload files, securely share them with others, and collaborate effectively. Purdue Box is a Purdue-managed implementation of Box tied to your Purdue email address.

Storage of restricted data in Box requires prior review by Purdue’s IT Security and Policy group. Restricted data storage in Box may also require approval from campus offices and committees responsible for contractual compliance and research regulatory affairs. Restricted data cannot be stored in individual user folders. Controlled research data must be stored in special folder structures governed by policy. Project-specific folders can be provided for approved restricted data uses.

If you are a Purdue researcher with controlled data storage needs, please visit the Research Computing page at https://www.rcac.purdue.edu/services/ or email rcac-help@purdue.edu for more information.

Who is eligible to have a Purdue Box account?

Due to licensing and regulatory restrictions, Purdue Box is only available to currently-active Purdue faculty, staff, and students.

Box accounts are not created in advance. Unless your previously-existing individual account using a Purdue email address was moved to Purdue Box, you will only have a Purdue account if someone shares a file with your Purdue email address or you access Box as part of Purdue University. A Purdue Box account is created for you the first time you do this at https://purdue.box.com.

What features does Purdue Box have compared to my free Box account?

Purdue Box offers a number of enhanced features over free Box accounts.

File Size Upload Limit: Free Account: 250 MB,  Purdue Box Account: 15 GB
Available Storage: Free Account:10 GB, Purdue Box Account: 5,000 GB
Purdue Authentication: Free Account: No, Purdue Box Account: Yes

Can I use Box on a mobile device?

Yes. Box has clients for most mobile devices. Click the Apps link in the Settings menu to see available downloads.

What training is available for Purdue Box?

You can find free Box training at Box.com. Box provides recorded and live tutorials on Box features.

You can also find Box training at the following link:

https://community.box.com/t5/Box-University-Courses/Box-University-User-Courses-Live-amp-Self-Paced/ta-p/57511

LinkedIn Learning also has a number of courses on using Box which are free to Purdue faculty and staff. Please visit https://one.purdue.edu and click on “Professional Tutorials” to access LinkedIn Learning as a Purdue faculty or staff member.

For more Purdue Box info, see the Purdue IT Gold Answers : https://purdue.edu/goldanswers/1014020

Last Updated 2/2023

Reasons to use Purdue email systems

Reasons to use Purdue email systems

In other words, reasons not to forward your Purdue email to a non-Purdue email service:

1. Purdue email is considered an official Purdue record.

2. Purdue is legally liable to protect and retain Purdue records, including student information regulated by FERPA that may be conveyed in email and email attachments.

  • Purdue Email Policy: Users are reminded that any e-mail sent from a University Email Account or residing on University Email Services may be considered a public record under the Indiana Public Records Act (IC 5-14-3) and may be subject to disclosure. Users need to exercise judgment in sending content that may be deemed confidential or that they otherwise do not wish to be disclosed. Furthermore, email transmissions may not be secure, and contents that are expected to remain confidential need to be communicated via means other than email. Common examples of confidential contents include: student grades, personnel records, individual donor gift records, personally identifiable information, and data subject to federal and state laws or regulations, including but not limited to, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA), Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) and the Gramm Leach Bliley Act (GLBA).

3. Using consumer email systems for Purdue email, when not contractually obligated to Purdue, causes Purdue to lose control of records, and circumvents Purdue access controls. Purdue has created access controls to protect and provide secure access to email. The security of 3rd party email systems cannot be guaranteed by Purdue.  While some email users may be able to safely forward their Purdue email to a non-Purdue email account, employees who handle official Purdue data are bound by Purdue policy to ensure that Purdue data remains protected in ways that comply with all applicable laws and regulations.

4. The Purdue records retention policy must be complied with even if Purdue email is forwarded to a non-Purdue server.

http://www.purdue.edu/policies/governance/vb3.html

5. Consumer email systems are typically commercial data-mining systems. Purdue students and employees may not consent to having the content of their email messages forwarded to, or entered into, a commercial data-mining system and tracked/indexed or potentially targeted with advertising, etc.

6. Caching a Purdue career account username password within a consumer email system (not an email client, but email systems/servers) that Purdue has not legally contracted puts Purdue systems and/or accounts at risk.  Some non-Purdue email systems will offer to log into your Purdue email account on your behalf and pull your Purdue email onto their servers.  It is OK for users to do this for their personally owned email and their own data, but this practice can put the data of students, and Purdue data in general, at risk.

7. When forwarding all Purdue email to a personal email account, a freedom of information act records request could impact someone’s personal account, and potentially bring personal email into litigation.  Or it could cause Purdue to become out of compliance with laws that require Purdue to control and access Purdue-owned data.

See: https://www.purdue.edu/legalcounsel/public/index.html

Outlook Email Rules

If you are trying to organize your email to make it easier to process, you may want to consider trying a “non-Purdue” email rule.  A non-Purdue email rule will automatically move any email message that does not come from an @purdue.edu address into a non-Purdue folder.  You can add exceptions to the rule so certain non-Purdue email addresses that are a priority for you will remain in your primary Inbox folder.  Here is a PDF document describing how to set this up:

https://edit.education.purdue.edu/download2/Outlook-NonPurdue-Rule.pdf

~ Bob

Purdue Hazard Communication Training – Mandatory for all Purdue Employees

Dear College of Education Employees,

As part of Purdue’s OSHA-mandated “Integrated Safety Plan” all paid Purdue employees (including student employees) are required to complete a one-time training called: Hazard Communication Training.

To complete the training, College of Education employees can watch the following 13-minute video:

Purdue Hazard Communication Training Video
https://www.purdue.edu/ehps/rem/training/hazcom/hazcomawarenew/HazCom_Awareness.html

…and then, after watching the video, take the short quiz here:

Quiz – Hazard Communication Training
https://purdue.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_41PSiEg2K1KMVfL

Once you have completed the Quiz, you should receive an email confirmation message.  Please forward that message to your departmental main office.

Thank you!

Robert Evans
Chair of the College of Education Safety Committee
Co-Chair of the BRNG Safety Committee
bob@purdue.edu

MediaSpace videos not playing in IE

If you are trying to access videos on the Purdue MediaSpace streaming video server using Internet Explorer (IE) and the videos are not playing, please see the following PDF document that should help resolve the problem:

http://edit.education.purdue.edu/download2/MediaSpace-With-IE.pdf

If the steps in the above PDF do not work, you may want to try using Firefox.  If the video does not play in Firefox, please be sure that the “Adobe Flash” plugin is enabled in Firefox (see screenshot on page two of the above PDF).

Thank you and happy computing!

— Education IT (edit@purdue.edu)

How to Back Up Data in Outlook 2013

Although Purdue IT’s Exchange server is configured to hold permanently deleted items in a dumpster for 30 days after being deleted, it is not possible to do an individual mailbox restore to a previous point in time.  So, even though items deleted within 30 days can be recovered, folder structures and original locations of deleted items cannot be restored.  The Education IT team recommends that users periodically make a complete backup of their Exchange data by exporting to an Outlook Data File (.PST).  The process for doing this on a Windows computer is outlined below.

How to back up data in Outlook 2013 (PDF)

–Education IT