Microsoft OneDrive

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OneDrive

OneDrive is Microsoft's cloud-based personal work-related document management solution. It's one of many components of Microsoft's Office 365 platform, which includes online applications such as Outlook, Excel, Word, PowerPoint, OneNote and Teams.

Microsoft 365 and all the applications you find here (including OneDrive) can be accessed from any web-enabled device.

Key Benefits

  • Documents uploaded to your personal Teams chats and meetings you organize are all saved in OneDrive
  • Users have 1TB of storage space to use to save files in the cloud
  • Documents in OneDrive can also be shared with others at UBC
  • Teams can collaborate on these files together using Microsoft 365 apps like Word, Excel and PowerPoint


 

Get started with OneDrive

Learn how to use OneDrive to upload, store, edit, and share your files in the M365 Learning Pathways.


 

Additional Resources

Teaching and Learning with OneDrive

For teaching and learning related resources on OneDrive please see:


 

 

 

 

Page last updated on February 28, 2025


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