Campus Technology Research (CTR) is a service of UW-IT's Teaching and Learning Systems unit. The mission of CTR is to improve the experience of UW students, faculty, staff, and researchers by understanding unmet IT needs and conducting research on new or existing technologies and services to meet those needs.

The Campus Technology Research service team is composed of researchers, business analysts, and service managers from UW-IT as well as instructional designers from Academic Technologies and the Center for Teaching and Learning.

The projects undertaken each academic year fall under two broad categories: