File Sharing

What is Collaborative File Sharing?

Collaborative File Sharing is the concept of sharing electronic documents with people who are potentially located anywhere in the world. There are various features which allow you to sync your documents with a central source of documents so that you may work productively with others on the same documents.

References
» Wikipedia: Collaborative Software

File Sharing Options

There are a number of options available for sharing files among your colleagues. The services which are not administered from the UIdaho campus are not supported by ITS, but are listed for your reference.

UI Academic Space
If all the users who need to access your files have NetID usernames, you may find the UIdaho Academic space to be the simplest solution. Contact the ITS Help Desk (http://support.uidaho.edu/) for additional information.

Google Docs
Provides a number of collaboration options with documents, spreadsheets, and presentations
» http://docs.google.com/

Microsoft Office Groove
Collaboration software program that helps teams work together, even if team members work for different organizations, work remotely, or work offline. Groove is available for UIdaho Faculty/Staff with the Office 2007 package. Contact the ITS Help Desk (http://support.uidaho.edu/) for additional information.
» http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/groove/

Microsoft Windows Live - Folder Share
Allows full sync or sync on demand and web access to files
» https://www.foldershare.com/

Microsoft Office Live
Integrates with the office tools to save files in a shared workspace
» http://office.live.com/