A Beginner's Guide to HUshares and Your M-Drive

A Beginner's Guide to HUShares and Your M-Drive

Hello dear reader, and welcome to this short and simple tutorial about accessing your M-Drive through HUShares! You may have been reminded of HUShares from classmates or professors, but if you have never actually used the site before and would like to, this article is for you! Your M-Drive is a valuable place to store schoolwork without taking up space on your own desktop or laptop computer. Harding University provides each student with 1 GB of free network storage space that is accessible from anywhere, even off campus. From HUShares, you can create new documents, spreadsheets,presentations, drawings, and PDFs, organize, edit, or delete existing files, upload files from your computer, or download files from your M-Drive onto your personal device. 

1.  To get started, type hushares.harding.edu into your browser and press enter.

2.  At the prompt, enter your Harding username and current password.

3.  Welcome to HUShares! Notice that all of your files from your M-Drive can be accessed from the 'M-Drive' link on the left-hand panel:

4.  Create new folders, documents, spreadsheets, PDFs, drawings, and more by clicking the 'File' tab on the Ribbon and choosing 'New'.

5.  Or, upload a document from a cloud source such as Google Drive. 

6.  You can also create new files by clicking on the 'New' tab on the second Ribbon.

7.  After you have created or uploaded a new file, you will want to edit it. To do that, click on the file name and then click 'View / Edit'. You will need to have the appropriate software or app on your computer in order to edit it. The perks of using this feature is that it will already be on your M-Drive versus having to upload it later.

8. To download files, select the folder and then the file you want to download first by clicking on it. Then, click the 'Download' button. 

9.  If you want to Upload a file to your M-Drive to print later at the lab, then click on the 'Upload' button. 

10.  You can choose to upload a file from Google Drive or from your personal computer by clicking either the 'Standard' tab or the 'Google Drive' tab. For standard uploading, click the 'Browse' button to choose which files or folders you would like to upload.

These 10 steps cover the basics of HUShares. For more information on how you can set up a remote access from your computer to your M-Drive and transfer files, please see this DormNet article: http://dormnet.blogspot.com/2014/09/how-to-map-your-m-drive.html. Thanks for reading, and good luck!