Hi All,
I am testing global search and see it does not return courses matching a title, only resources within them.
Is it possible to get global search to list courses found as well as content, or would we need a second search option to allow the searching of courses?
I am really referring to the way search used to work in Moodle which returned something resembling a category page listing courses, their course image, summary based on a search string:
moodle.org/course/search.php?search=test
Hi Jez,
The Global Search uses more of a search engine approach to searching for specific and accessible content for each user. It relies on indexing the site and will return text search based results for a lot of different search areas. This would allow users to text search their Moodle, looking for a specific line of text in one or more documents, files or courses.
The other search tool is quite old, and is accessible from the Site homepage, when you add the search courses box to it. In addition, there's a Basic Course search block that you could also use. This block hasn't been updated in well over a year, but supports Moodle up to 3.5, so it might just work.
Hi Jez,
I just tried on moodle.org and on https://sandbox.moodledemo.net searching for courses using the global search. Each time the courses were listed first in the search results. Thus, I'm confused as to why you don't see courses in your search results.
Are all the settings in 'Manage global search' left as default? Perhaps you could try changing them then doing a search to see if you can figure out how to reproduce your problem?