Graduating Students' Access to UMBC Cloud Storage Services
A guide for new alumni on their cloud storage access
Congratulations on making it this far in your academic career! You've put a lot of hard work into getting this far, and it's almost time to graduate, but before you move on to the next chapter of your career, make sure you take the next steps to ensure you keep any important records from UMBC!
Once you become an alumnus of UMBC, there will be changes to what services you can have access to, primarily Google Suite, Microsoft Suite, and Box. With Microsoft Suite and Box, your access to these services expires 30-90 days after graduation. This means any documents or files you had stored in OneDrive, Office 365, and Box will be deleted if they are not copied or moved to another storage device.
To maintain access to your UMBC Google Suite, which includes your Google Drive and UMBC Gmail, you will need to sign into your myUMBC account at least once every 12 months.
Note: We strongly recommend that you migrate any important data and have your UMBC mail forwarded to a personal account.
Storage: Your Google storage will be restricted to a total of 5GB os space. Please review the resources below to help cut down on you storage usage and assess what should stay on the UMBC cloud before your account is adjusted to the alumni quota limit
Migration: For long-term accessibility and data security, please migrate any critical files a personal cloud or storage space
To see how much storage you're using, click here:
Below you will find many resources on how to cut down on cloud storage and manage your files going forward.
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