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You can configure Box to notify you when certain events occur.
Box allows you to edit some file types directly in Box. For more information see the vendors article, Opening and Editing Files with Box Tools.
Box makes it easy to share your ideas and collaborate on projects together, all in one secure location. For more information about assigning tasks in Box, view the vendor’s article on Adding Comments and Tasks. You can also access the tutorial on How to Assign Tasks with Box.
See the Box article on sharing files via links.
To learn how to set collaboration permissions, view the Box articles, Managing Collaborators and Understanding Collaborator Permission Levels. 
For more information about Box collaboration, view the vendor's article, Inviting Collaborators.
Step-by-step instructions on how to upload files can be found in the vendor's article, Upload to Box With the File Browser.
The vendor’s website contains useful information on how to manage Box files and folders. Start with the following: 
We recommend Box Drive rather than Box Sync. You cannot use both. Get Started with Box Drive. Setting up Box sync will allow you to select folders in Box that will automatically synchronize with your computer. To get started:
You will need to download the content from your previous file sharing service, and then upload the content to your Cornell Box account. For more information see Box’s documentation, Upload Your Content to Box.
If you are part of Weill Cornell Medicine, do not click Continue. Instead, click the appropriate link for NY or Qatar in the box below, titled Weill Cornell Medicine Colleagues. Go to cornell.app.box.com. Click Continue. You will be directed to CUWebLogin.
If you already have a personal Box account that you created using your netid@cornell.edu email address, you have two options:
If you receive an email invitation to collaborate in Box, but when you try to accept the invitation by signing in, the shared content isn’t there, it may be due to someone inviting your Cornell email alias, instead of your netid@cornell.edu address. This issue can start when you receive an…
Google Workspace (previously known as G Suite) users can change their display name (your name as seen by people to whom you send email). If you want to edit your display name, or if you are seeing an incorrect name and want to fix it, walk through the procedures listed below. Your name can be…
All incoming Cornell students are set up by default with Gmail through a Cornell Google Workspace for Education account.
If you choose to forward your email, you do so at your own risk. Everything on this page could be placed in boxes with exclamation points and other attention-getting devices. But, at a bare minimum, please read this: If you choose to forward your email, you do so at your own risk. Some (…
Overview Faculty, staff, postdocs, graduate and professional students, and retirees are initially set up with Microsoft 365 email accounts. By default, you access these accounts through an email client like Outlook, Apple Mail, or Outlook on the Web. Undergraduates begin at Cornell with…
This article distinguishes between email servers and email programs (email programs are also called email clients or apps). Cornell’s email server is Exchange 2010 from Microsoft. Email clients are programs such as Outlook, Mail, and Thunderbird that run on your desktop or mobile phone, and…
Open the message. Click the small, downward-facing arrow next to the Reply arrow icon near the top right of the message window, just under the Subject of the message. Select Show original. A separate window will open, showing a few summary rows at the top, then the complete…
Spam makes up more than two-thirds of all email traffic. Every email in the world passes through a gauntlet of junk mail / spam filters designed to protect recipients from all that spam. With so much complexity, it’s inevitable that the occasional message will be misjudged. Take these two…

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