Recommended for smaller working groups like study groups and informal associations. Recommended for larger working groups like department offices, dean's offices, committees, among others.

IT staff can change a user-managed group to a university-managed group to take control of it IT staff can change a university-managed group to a user-managed group and assign a new group manager Only IT staff can add or remove group membersīoth IT staff and group managers can add or remove group members

Team members cannot leave a group on their own Here is a comparison of some of the features between the two folder types: Departmental offices, committees, and administrative groups can centralize vital files and documents without having to worry about losing access to them, as they are centrally managed and accessible to the service administrators. University-managed team folders are managed by the Dropbox service administrators, who create the team folder and manage the permission group Duck ID memberships. The benefits of this folder type are mainly for larger working groups. This folder type is useful for smaller groups, like study groups, research labs, or for basic file sharing with a select group of colleagues.įor more information on this folder type and its interaction with user-managed groups, please consult the Dropbox Groups article in the Related Articles panel. These folder types are managed by the Dropbox user, not IT staff. With a user-managed team folder, the team folder owner manages the membership of the folder's associated Group. For example, if you have access to the UO-Origami-Club team folder, you are a member of the UO-Origami-Club group, and the UO-Origami-Club team folder will appear in your UO Dropbox account. A team folder will appear in the Dropbox account of each member of the associated group. What are Dropbox Team folders?Ī Dropbox team folder allows data storage separate from one's personal UO Dropbox account. Each team folder has an associated membership group. There are two team folder types: user-managed and university-managed (also known as company-managed). Team folders are available to UO faculty and staff only. This article is designed to provide Dropbox users with an overview of Dropbox team folders.

Dropbox team account