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

  • Remembering Ron Gentile
    5/18/22
    UB recently lost a wonderful member of our longstanding community and, as two people whose lives were greatly impacted by J. Ronald Gentile (Ron), we wanted to take a moment to reflect on this extraordinary mentor.
  • UB’s Educational Design Collaborative Wins Fact2 Award
    4/27/22
    An interview with Jeanne Myers and Steven Sturman. The FACT2 Excellence in Administrative Leadership Award is a system-level honor conferred to acknowledge and recognize consistently noteworthy achievement and to encourage the ongoing pursuit of excellence.
  • The Middle States Re-Accreditation Self-Study Process Kicks Off
    4/6/22
    This past week, President Tripathi notified the university community that our self-study efforts toward re-accreditation are officially underway. As he indicated, the decennial accreditation process is indeed important for our institution as a whole. While UB comprises numerous unique academic units and programs—many of which have their own internal accreditation standards and obligations—this decennial accreditation process is our chance to come together as a broader institution.
  • What’s in a (Building) Name?
    3/3/22
    As a University at Buffalo graduate student turned academic affairs professional, part of my role is reflecting on my student experience and the shared experiences of my peers as we make consistent efforts to move forward as an ever-changing and growing campus community. I often think back to the long hours spent in various lecture halls around north and south campus: collaborating with classmates, engaging in shared learning with my instructors and eventually leading my own courses in statistics and educational psychology.
  • Encouraging the Use of University Supported Tools and Technologies
    3/2/22
    We live in a time of unprecedented technological innovation and advancement. Our phones auto-update while we are sleeping, our cars get angry and start beeping at us when we are too close to something else, and our regular visits to the doctor’s office seem to yield some new protocol or procedure that they want us to sign up for.
  • How has teaching changed during the COVID-19 pandemic?
    2/16/22
    I think we can all agree that life changed during the COVID-19 pandemic. All areas of one’s life from home, work and school have been affected in some way. As an educator, I wanted to take a look at how teaching has changed as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.