Curriculum, Assessment & Teaching Transformation Blog

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.

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

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  • Turnitin in UB Learns
    2/21/24
    UB Learns has a third party plagiarism tool called Turntitin (TII). This tool allows instructors to choose whether to run student submissions through a program that checks for plagiarism, checks for AI-generated work, and can be used to provide feedback to students.

Past blog posts

  • Empowering Educators: A Guide to Integrating AI in the Classroom
    2/7/24
    The Office of Curriculum, Assessment and Teaching Transformation has launched a new series of workshops for the Spring 2024 semester, designed to enhance your teaching strategies. The first in the series continued our efforts to inform our instructors on the use of artificial intelligence in the classroom.
  • Perspectives on AI in Higher Education: An Overview
    1/24/24
    On January 22, 2024, the Office of Curriculum, Assessment and Teaching Transformation held its Annual Conference. This year’s event focused on Artificial Intelligence and its potential use in higher education.
  • 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.
  • Optimizing Brightspace: Tips to Enhance Your Course
    9/6/23
    The transition from Blackboard to Brightspace is finally complete and the fall semester has started. As you begin teaching your courses, our learning designers have some suggestions and tips to optimize Brightspace and create an engaging course that everyone will benefit from and enjoy