UB’s Graduate School of Education has partnered with GiGi’s Playhouse Down Syndrome Achievement Center of Buffalo to provide UB students with in-classroom experience teaching students with disabilities. UB students were photographed at the center working with clients in July 2021. GSE professor Claire Cameron is working with the program.

CATT News & Updates

Featuring teaching tips and stories highlighting teaching and assessment innovations happening around UB.

Latest News & Updates

  • Instructional Support Community: Fall Meeting
    8/1/25
    The Instructional Support Community (ISC) brings together instructional support staff from across UB to stay connected on tools, services, and strategies that impact teaching and learning. It’s a space to ask questions, share insights, and hear what’s new, from system updates to instructional trends, so we can all better support instructors.
  • Top Hat is now available to all UB instructors
    8/1/25
    Top Hat is now available as an enterprise-supported tool within UB Learns. Top Hat is an active learning platform that helps faculty increase student engagement through interactive features like polls, quizzes, discussions, and real-time feedback. Seamlessly integrated into UB Learns, Top Hat offers a flexible way to create meaningful in-class and learning experiences. 
  • Introducing Developing AI Literacy: A Free Course Now Available to the UB Community
    5/20/25
    Artificial intelligence (AI) is becoming an everyday part of our lives—shaping how we work, learn, and connect with others. From autocorrecting our messages to recommending what to watch next, AI is already here. But what exactly is AI, and why should it matter to you?
  • Lumen Circles Fellowships on AI and Prompt Development are Returning for Fall 2025
    6/27/25
    Are you looking to learn more about AI and how to incorporate it into your teaching? SUNY is partnering with Lumen to provide free access to the Lumen Circle Fellowship Program.
  • Generative AI Survey for UB Instructors
    1/29/25
    As the integration of artificial intelligence in education continues to evolve, we are seeking the input of instructors at UB to better understand how these tools are being utilized.
  • Our Office Has Moved: What You Need to Know
    1/14/25
    We are excited to announce that CATT has relocated from Norton Hall on North Campus to the UB Gateway Building, located at 77 Goodell Street in downtown Buffalo. While our physical location has changed, our commitment to supporting instructors remains stronger than ever.
  • Introducing the Instructional Innovation and Transformation Team
    9/3/24
    The Office of Curriculum, Assessment, and Teaching Transformation (CATT) is excited to announce the launch of our Instructional Innovation and Transformation team. This new initiative, led by Dr. Mara Huber, represents a significant step forward in our ongoing commitment to advancing teaching and learning at UB.
  • Debunking Course Evaluation Myths for Instructors at UB
    5/8/24
    As the close of the academic year arrives and students complete their coursework, we turn our attention to the importance of end-of-semester evaluation. Course evaluations often carry misconceptions that can influence both teaching and administrative practices. In this blog post, we unravel several prevalent myths about course evaluations, providing insights that can help instructors better understand and utilize this feedback mechanism effectively.
  • Preparing Grades for HUB
    4/10/24
    If you have been entering your grades in HUB for a while, you are likely familiar with the classic options of either manually entering every grade for your students - a tedious process especially if you have a larger class, or uploading a spreadsheet with all the final grades for your students. HUB has recently been updated to allow for a new way to upload grades. This blog will guide you on how to export your final grades to import via the New Way in HUB.

Latest Podcast Episode

  • Overcoming Burnout and Reigniting Your Passion for Teaching | Ep. 9
    3/28/25
    Burnout is a challenge many educators face, but how do you recognize it and navigate through it? In our latest episode of The Teaching Table podcast, we talk with Dr. Aisha O'Mally, a professor at the School of Management, about her experience with burnout. She shares how the demands of teaching and workload took a toll on her well-being and how she found ways to regain balance and reconnect with her passion for education. Tune in to hear her insights and reflections on maintaining well-being in academia.

Past Updates

  • From Lectures to Lessons: Using Technology in Your Classroom
    11/29/23
    Teaching Technology Integrations Gateway provides information about the teaching technologies integrated with UB Learns. Learn more about approved technologies, requesting new technologies, and hearing how one faculty member is using teaching technology to enhance their course.
  • Strategies for Teaching Assistants: Reflecting and Refining your Teaching
    11/15/23
    Balancing being a TA and being a graduate student can be a stressful experience, especially during the mid-semester grind. In this podcast, Ph.D. students Kristen D'Alessandro Merii and Jessica Mencia reflect on how their semester is going and discuss the balancing act between being full-time students and instructors on campus.
  • Learning from the EDJI Fellowship Program
    11/1/23
    The Office of Curriculum, Assessment and Teaching Transformation (CATT) recently launched the Equity, Diversity, Justice and Inclusion (EDJI) Faculty Fellows Program to support recommendations from the President. This program supports a faculty cohort in inclusive pedagogy, assessment and academic leadership through professional development opportunities and an ongoing community of practice.
  • The Supposed Looming Specter of Artificial General Intelligence
    10/18/23
    The optimism surrounding the promise of artificial intelligence has accompanied related research and development for most of the past century. However, skepticism has continuously served to temper delusions of grandeur that might look past the daunting challenges of developing machine or computer technology that can surpass human abilities in holistic and comprehensive intelligence (often referred to as artificial general intelligence).
  • Brightspace Student Chatter
    10/4/23
    Overall, the Brightspace roll-out is viewed as successful. It is new for all of us, faculty, staff and students. Hear what the students have to say about the rollout and their experiences as learners in the new learning management system.
  • Embracing the Future Now: Instructors and Artificial Intelligence
    9/20/23
    Alarm bells are sounding about a new danger lurking in the halls of academia. Misunderstood and operating in the shadows, it is assumed to be drawing students into its clutches with the promise of easier, less time-consuming schoolwork. It asks us what we need and then supplies the fix. What is this menace? Artificial intelligence.