Global search

New feature
in Moodle 3.6!

What is Global search?

• Global search lets you search everywhere on the Moodle site that you have access to. A student can search their courses for particular lecture notes, for example, or a teacher could search for subject-related activities.
• The feature needs to be enabled by the administrator and a search box is then available next to the user menu.

Searching the site (when global search is enabled)

• A Global search block may also be added to course pages.

How does it work?

• Click the search icon by the user menu and type a search term into the box that appears, or type into the box in the Global search block if enabled.
• On the next screen, you can simply click the search button to search everywhere, or expand the Filter to search in specific areas:

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Filtering the search

• You will then see results displayed from all areas of Moodle you have access to:

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Search results