You can use this as an additional storage from any of the devices that you use.

OneDrive is a free online storage that comes with your Office 365 account.

Or if your data becomes compromised (through malwares/ransomwares).

The files becomes corrupted (for example due to files transfer or application errors).

Please ensure that you have an alternate good backup of the files stored at OneDrive or a secondary copy elsewhere. Support from Microsoft for individual users might be limited for this service. Hence, as a safety measure, we any discourage confidential or Personal Information to be stored on these cloud storage providers. Microsoft has communicated how they protect their users' data ( Microsoft's Trust centre), but as these services are outside SMU's control, IITS does not have governing rights to their security mechanisms. Note : After students have graduated, the files stored in OneDrive will not be accessible anymore, students must backup their files before graduation. Until otherwise advised, its use is limited to the period when students are enrolled with SMU. OneDrive cloud service is an extended service provided by Microsoft under our SMU campus-wide licence at no extra cost to our students.

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