Improve your search results in the Courses tab by leveraging advanced search syntax.

You can search for single-word terms or a combination of words to find relevant hits in titles, descriptions, skill names, and content configuration.

For example, if you were to search for handling information encryption in a database that contains these titles:

Then both titles would be matched because it contains words found in the search query.

Tip: If you wanted to target the first title, you could force a literal search by enclosing it in double-quotes within the search field: "handling sensitive"

In this same database, searching for "info" would not yield any results, since expansion is not automatic. If you wanted to match "info" against "information," you would have to add the wildcard '*' to expand your word.

For example, searching for "handling info*" would yield the "handling sensitive information" hit.

You may want to filter out adjacent terms if your content database is extensive. For example, if you want to find courses related to security policies but not those about encryption, you can search for: "security policy -encryption".

Note the use of the minus sign. This instructs the search engine to exclude results that contain this word.

Similarly, the plus sign (+) can instruct the search engine to require terms.

You can combine the wildcard and the boolean operators (plus and minus) to create very pointed search queries. For example:

polic* -encryption +security

In the above example, we ask the system to match titles, content, skills, and descriptions that may contain the substring "polic" that necessarily do not contain the word encryption but that forcibly include security.

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