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Garrett Williams
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E-Learning Program and Development Coordinator
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Garrett Williams received his BS in Secondary Education, History from Appalachian State University. Additionally, he earned a minor in English from the United Kingdom's Keele University and a Masters in Curriculum and Supervision with an Administrative Add-on from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.
Currently, Garrett serves as the E-Learning Program and Development Coordinator for Union County Public Schools (UCPS). His primary focus is leading course development and revision teams for UCVirtual. He is also the lead designer and administrator for the UCVirtual Canvas Learning Management System. Additionally, he works with the UCPS E-Learning Administrator, UCVirtual blended learning instructors, UCPS Instructional Coaches and UCPS teachers on a wide variety of collaborative projects. Garrett has overseen the development and revision of over 21 UCVirtual courses (Spring 2016-Spring 2018). He also helped launch the Blended OCS course initiative for UCPS.
Garrett has presented at several state and national conferences. They include the North Carolina Social Studies Conference, the North Carolina Technology in Education Society, Connecting Communities of Education Stakeholders conference, the Future of Education Technology Conference and InstructureCon. Garrett was named the 2009-2010 Monroe High School Teacher of the Year.
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Our Canvas administrators need the ability to set the default font to 12 point or higher. 10 is very small when it comes to accessibility requirements. Most modern web standards suggest a font size be...
We need SpeedGrader added back to the Assignment Drop Down Menu in the New Gradebook. It is very confusing for users who want to speed grade an assignment for an entire class of students. This was a ...
Update: I put in a call and ticket to Canvas Support. They were very helpful/ understanding. They reassured me this will be resolved in a future release. They let me know the "product team created...
Embedding images with the new RCE Enhancements is causing major development problems when I am working on our course designs. For this reason I am a posting feature idea to address one of these concer...
Kenneth this totally did the trick! You are AWESOME! Thank you so much for the help. Little by little I am picking up on the CSS and JS coding skills. Many of them have come directly from you!I have a...
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Do you have an example of how to unlink student and observer?
I tested this today and I am disappointed with several features. First, the previous Website URL Submission Type allowed users to select Google Drive and the full Google document was included in Speed...
Problem statement: Cannot Search or Group Pages inside of CanvasProposed solution:Add the ability to Search and Group to the Pages section of Canvas (similar to Assignments)User role(s):admin,instruct...
Any more news on this idea? Its from 2020! We needs this added back, especially if its a part of the TinyMice set up.
Re: If I already have an account as a teacher, how do I pair with my own child to observe his/her cl
Where you able to find the solution. I am interested in knowing it as well. Thanks!
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