Box accounts are automatically provisioned for staff, faculty, student employees, AS employees, and CSE employees. Box accounts are not provisioned for students at this time.
Box has a number of applications that dramatically improve the usefulness of Box. These include:
- Box (also known as Box Drive): Allows you to access your Box files directly on your local computer
- Box Edit: Allows you to open documents in applications (e.g., Word, Excel) directly from the Box website
- Box for Office: Allows you to save files from Microsoft Office applications (Word, Excel, etc.) directly into Box. Allows you to attach files from Box directly to emails. Available for PC only.
Note: You may have to restart your computer once you have installed the Box apps for them to work correctly.
Installing Box Apps on a University-Owned PC
- Open Software Center on the PC. (If you do not have Software Center, and are on a University-owned Windows PC, stop here and contact ITSS for further assistance.)
- Search for "Box" and install the three Box apps.
- You may have to restart your computer for the Box Applications to appear and to function properly.
- If you click on "Open" to open a file and get the message "Unsupported filetype", you'll need to restart your computer. This is a not uncommon issue the first time you run Box Edit.
Installing Box Apps on a personal device
The Application Catalog website is only one element of the campus Windows management system, and will not work on a non-campus-owned PC. While you may be able to visit the site, the software will not install.
You may visit box.com and install software from https://www.box.com/resources/downloads.
Installing Box Apps on a University-Owned Mac
Box Edit and Box Sync are available for Mac computers. To install Box Edit and Box Sync for Macs, please install the Box Suite via Self Service.
For information on using Self Service, please see here: https://support.csuchico.edu/TDClient/1984/Portal/KB/ArticleDet?ID=11735
