JShare Online Filesharing Tool

JShare is an online service that allows students, faculty, and staff, and to share files within and outside the university community. To use JShare, you must first have an active JHED (Johns Hopkins Enterprise Directory) login ID and password. If you need to activate your JHED login ID, you may wish to follow our tutorial for Activating your Johns Hopkins Enterprise Directory (JHED) login.

Setting up Your JShare

Log in to the Johns Hopkins Enterprise Directory(JHED) by going to jhed.jhu.edu.
Click on the "Login" tab, enter you Login ID and password, and click on "Submit Login Request Now!"
Make sure you're in the "MyApps" tab (located on the top of the screen).
Under Applications, click on "Click Here to Activate Jshare".
Make sure you agree to the terms of the Jshare disclaimer and acceptable use policy. A copy of the disclaimer and acceptable use policy can be found here. If you accept the terms, click on the appropriate button at the bottom of the page. You will be returned to the MyApps screen in JHED. From now on, when you log into JHED, a link to "Jshare" will appear in place of “Click Here to Activate JShare".
Your Jshare account is now set up to begin uploading and sharing files.

Other JShare Resources

Once you have you Jshare account setup, you'll want to get started uploading, managing and sharing your files. Hopkins Information Technology Services (ITS) has put together a site with explanations and tutorials for how to effectively use Jshare. Below are a few Jshare Topics which you might find useful:

Hopkins ITS JShare Page: the main page for Jshare help, tutorials and FAQs
Jshare Online Training: walks you through every feature of Jshare, step by step.
Jshare How-to: Jshare help broken down by topic. If you have a question about a specific element of Jshare, this is where to look.
Sharing: how to use the sharing feature of Jshare. Use this tool to make files and folders public, and control read/write privleges for the general public and to limit access to specific members inside JHU.
Tickets: tells you how to use the tickets feature of Jshare. Tickets allow you to grant selective access to private materials stored on Jshare to specific individuals who have an email address, regardless of whether or not they are part of the JHU institution.. Each "ticket" you grant someone via email. The reciepient of that email will have access to the files or folders which you have issued the ticket for, for an amount of time which you specify.
Contacts/Groups: explanation on how to setup the Contacts feature of Jshare which allows you to create and group an "address book" of your JHU contacts. Then, using file sharing you can allow access to certain materials by a group of contacts, without having to allow access separately to each individual.