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Web File Services

Students, faculty, and staff can create a Web file folder that is accessible on and off campus through a Web browser, through My Network Places in Windows, or through Go then Connect to Server in MacOS.  Create your Web-accessible folder by going to http://webfiles.sxu.edu.  An SXU domain username and password is required.

Your Web Folder is not only a great way to collaborate with the people in your courses or posting and submitting assignments, but it is a great tool for creating an electronic portfolio of your work across courses—something that can be used with some additional reflective and connective documents to show a potential employer.

Features

Secure Storage and Sharing

• While you can access your files and folders remotely, they are well protected.  Only you have access to your Web files unless you explicitly give others permission to read, write, or delete those files. 
• You can share your documents with all users with accounts in the SXU Domain, with a particular user or group of users with accounts in the SXU Domain, with a particular external user or group of users that you identify, or with everyone on the Internet. 
• Except when purposely sharing documents with everyone on the Internet, a username and password is required to access your chosen document(s). 
• When documents are transferred to and from your Web Folder they are all encrypted.
• Generous 40 MB quota

Advantages Over E-mail Attachments

• Sending information as electronic mail is very insecure! 
• When you send a file or folder from your Web Folder (using the WebUI tool), you are sending a link (a URL) to the file rather than an attachment. 
• The (perhaps sensitive) file is not sent in the clear as it is as an attachment in normal electronic mail.
• You can require a username and password from the viewer to guarantee that only they are viewing the file.
• Attachments—particularly attachments sent to multiple recipients--do not take up space in anyone’s message store.
• You can update your centrally-held document so that the recipients have access to the most recent version.

Web File Services Tutorials

The tutorials below are in Adobe PDF format.  Adobe Acrobat 5.0 or above, available for free from the Adobe Web site, is required to view them.

• Accessing Web Files and Folders
• Collaboration
• Using the Xythos Web User Interface (WebUI)
• Sharing Web Files and Folders