University at Buffalo (UB)
Online Learning
The College of Arts and Sciences online learning can help you design courses, improve existing course content and learn how to use UB-supported online tools to develop engaging classes and videos.
Online Tools
UB offers a variety of tools to aid your teaching needs. This collection of online tools is designed to help you explore and create exceptional courses. These include on-demand training, online resources and 24/7 support.
UB students, faculty and staff can use UBbox to store, share and access academic and university-related documents from anywhere, with people inside and outside of UB.
Using UBbox in your courses is a great way to collect and store assignments and projects from your students, and it can be embedded into UB Learns. Here are a few tutorials to get you started using UBbox.
Using UBbox
UBbox is a cloud-based online tool that you can store and access documents from anywhere at any time.
Sharing Links
Learn to control who can access, see who's reviewed documents, set passwords, expiration dates and custom URLs, and more.
Collaborate in Folders
Start collaborating with people in and outside UB when you invite and share specified working documents and folders.
UBbox and UB Learns
See how to get HTML codes from UBbox that can be used to seamlessly display files or folder contents in UB Learns.
Helpful Accessibility Resources:
Download our Microsoft Word and PowerPoint templates for step-by-step instructions on making your Word documents and PowerPoint presentations accessible and unlocking your content for everyone, including people with disabilities.
Collaborators outside of UB with whom you have shared folders and files receive an invitation to create a box account and accept UB terms. They should follow the directions in the email invite to create a free box account. They will then log into box.com (not UBbox) to view shared files.
No. Set the Access Type to "Anyone with the link" when sharing the custom URL with people who don't have a Box account.
No. As long as you correctly set the permissions as "Anyone with the link," as described above, anybody visiting the Web page where you have embedded your file or folder can see it.
Yes. If you use the steps above to share and embed a folder and use advanced options to permit downloads, visitors to your site can download the entire folder as a "ZIP" file (a standard format for compressing files).
UBbox is appropriate for university data, Categories I-III. A special account is required to store Category I Restricted Data (such as Social Security Numbers, banking, health, and legal information). Please contact your IT department or the UBIT Help Center for more information.
Have more UBbox questions?
Find answers to the most commonly asked questions about UBbox on the UBIT website or contact Jay Stockslader, Director of Online Learning and Continuing Education.
Set your students up for success with these helpful resources.
UB Teach Anywhere
Teach Anywhere will help you navigate the comprehensive resources that UB has, helping to ensure your success in teaching online or in the classroom.
You can find support every step of the way. Here are a few support resources unique to the College of Arts and Sciences.
Online Learning and Continuing Education
The College provides hundreds of academic courses online each year. Contact Jay Stockslader, Dirtector of Online Learning and Continuing Education, to discuss how to offer your class online, learn more about instructional design, or develop an online degree program.
CAS Educational Technology (CASet)
CASet provides comprehensive information technology services and support to the College. CASet partners with faculty and staff to meet instructional, research and administrative needs by servicing and consulting on matters relating to technology.
Log in using your UBIT name and password
Office of Curriculum, Assessment and Teaching Transformation
The University at Buffalo Office of Curriculum, Assessment and Teaching Transformation (CATT) provides leadership and support for delivering and assessing 21st-century instruction across physical and digital learning environments.
Other UB Online Tools and Support
Visit UB Information Technology (UBIT) Faculty Technology Guide and Student Technology Guide to explore and learn how and help students use other digital tools.
Ask Virtual Vic, the virtual assistant, your IT questions for 24/7 support.