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Leaving Russell Group universities? Take your work with you.
The 24 research-intensive universities that make up the Russell Group, including Oxford, Cambridge, Imperial, LSE, UCL, Manchester, Edinburgh and others.
Typical account-closure pattern
Most Russell Group institutions preserve alumni email on a downgraded mailbox licence, cut OneDrive and OneNote access within 30 to 90 days of graduation, and revoke Teams access at end of final term. Check your specific university's IT services page for the dates.
What to take with you
The work most often missed once a school Microsoft 365 account closes:
- OneDrive — all your files, all your folders.
- Class OneNote notebooks — your own section group.
- Personal OneNote notebooks — exam revision, mind maps.
- Outlook email attachments worth keeping.
- Co-authored SharePoint documents.
How mydocs.school helps
Sign in once with your existing Microsoft 365 account. The dashboard shows everything attached to your account — OneDrive, personal OneNote, every class OneNote. One click for each, or one click for the lot. Files stream straight to your browser as a zip.
For per-workload guidance, see the workload export guides. For the full leaver picture, see /leaving-school.
Caveat
The closure policy described above is typical for Russell Group universities as a category. Individual institutions inside this category may have different timelines — alumni licensing variations, longer retention windows for specific course types, shorter windows for contracted teaching staff. Treat this page as a starting point and verify the specific date with your institution's IT team.