OneDrive for Business is an Office 365 file management service available to all students, faculty, and staff that is based on SharePoint.
Service considerations
Below is a list of file management services and when to use each.
OneDrive for Business
- Files that will not be shared (e.g. documents that no one else needs to see, draft documents or personal expense reports).
- Files that will be shared with limited scope (e.g. articles or documents you want to informally review).
- Basic versioning is sufficient.
Microsoft Teams or SharePoint Online
- Files that will be shared with team members (e.g. team or project documents, formal collaborations with others).
- Workflows are needed to assign list items or documents to others to take action on or to collect feedback.
- You want to create custom permission levels for confidential information.
- App and service integration (e.g. line-of-business applications, Power Apps, Power Automate or Power BI).
- Advanced versioning is required.
OneDrive Personal (subscriptions unaffiliated with the University)
- Files that are exclusively personal files (e.g. family photos or recipes).
- Files will be shared with family, acquaintances and others who do not work at the University.
To get started with OneDrive for Business, log in with your UARK email address and password, then click the OneDrive tile.