Search rules

You can use the search engine to search for courses, paths, program sessions, users, groups, learning needs, and activities.

Newly created items can take up to 2 hours to be visible in the search results. This is due to the indexation delay.

1. At the top right, click the search bar.
2. Start typing what you want to search for. Results will appear as you type.
3. If you can’t find what you’re looking for, hit ↵ Enter or click SEE MORE RESULTS at the bottom right to open the search results page.

You can open an item by clicking it, click on a chip at the bottom to filter by this type of content, or press ↵ Enter to view more results on the search results page, where you can filter them further or reorder them.

You can also press ↵ Enter without entering anything to open the search results page directly.

Difference between the search bar and the search results page

Search bar

The search bar allows you to search and access content quickly.

At the top right of the homepage, click Search to open the search bar. Results will appear dynamically as you type. You can open an item by clicking it, click on a chip at the bottom to filter by this type of content, or press ↵ Enter to view more results on the search results page.

Up to 14 results are displayed in the search bar, sorted by relevance, and categorized as follows:

• 3 courses — unless the catalog is deactivated
• 3 paths — unless the catalog is deactivated
• 3 program sessions
• 3 course activities (cheat sheet, questions, documents, and recordings) — unless the catalog is deactivated
• 1 user
• 1 group

When you click a chip to refine your search by category, a maximum of 12 results are displayed.

We do not display program templates or path sessions.

Search results page

The search results page allows you to apply more granular search filters, reorder results, and open content directly in their edition screen.

At the top right of the homepage, press ↵ Enter without entering anything to directly open the search results page. From that page, you can:

• filter content by type (internal/external courses, paths, program sessions, activities, classrooms, users, groups, learning needs), tag and language;
• open courses, paths, program sessions, and classes, directly in their edition screen, or add them to playlists.

Filter your search

Filter from the search bar

1. At the top right, click the search bar.
2. Just below the search text field, click on the chips to refine your search.

Filter from the search results page

1. At the top right, click the search bar.
2. Hit ↵ SEE MORE RESULTS at the bottom right.
3. At the top of the page, click on the chips to filter by type of content, then click Filter at the top right to further filter down by criteria specific to the type of content.

When you select a filter, a corresponding chip appears at the top of the list of search results. You can click directly on the chip to remove the filter or edit it.

The table below lists all the available filters (when clicking the button Filter, at the top right of the page), and sorting criteria, per type of content.

The option Most recent corresponds to descending latest modification date.

The option Most relevant is the result of the relevance algorithm of our search engine, which takes into account the weight of the searchable fields, whether there is a partial or total match between the query and the searchable fields, the number of words matching, whether the course is internal (higher weight) or external (lower weight), and the language, among others.

By default, results are filtered by the language of your platform. You can change the language by clicking Filter → Languages at the top right of the page. If no elements correspond to your language, the filter is not applied.

Visibility rules

Platform administrators can see all items in the platform. Other roles will see results based on their permissions.

Visibility rules for courses

A course can appear in search results when one of the following criteria is met:

• You are the main author or a co-author of the course.
• You are an author within the group that owns the course.
• You are a reviewer of the course.
• You are a translator of the course.
• You are the instructor of a program session containing the course.
• You are registered for a program session containing the course (individually or through a group).
• You are enrolled in a path session containing the course (individually or through a group).
• You are the coach of a group where the course is shared within the coaches library.
• You are the coach of a group where there is a program session registration.
• You are the coach of a group where there is a program session shared in its Catalog.
• You are the coach of a group where there is a program template within its coaches library.
• You are a member of the group where the course is shared in its Catalog.
• You are a member of a group where a path session containing the course is shared in its Catalog.
• You are a member of a group where one of its program sessions is shared in its Catalog.

Visibility rules for paths

A path can appear in search results when one of the following criteria is met:

• You are the main author or a co-author of the path.
• You are an author within the group owning the path.
• You are a translator of the path.
• You are enrolled in at least one active path session of the path or a parent path (individually or through a group).
• You are a member of the group where one of its active path sessions is shared in its Catalog.

Visibility rules for program sessions

A program session can appear in search results when one of the following criteria is met:

• You are the author of the session.
• You have been added as an instructor to the session.
• You are registered for the session (individually or through a group).
• You are registered as a trainer for a classroom slot that belongs to this session.
• You are the coach of a group where there is a program session group registration.
• You are a member of the group where the program session is shared in its Catalog.

Visibility rules for activities

Visibility rules for course activities are the same ones as for courses.

Visibility rules for classrooms

A classroom can appear in search results when one of the following criteria is met:

• You can see the path containing the classroom (see the visibility rules for paths).
• You can see the program session containing the classroom (see the visibility rules for program sessions).

Visibility rules for users

A user can appear in search results when one of the following criteria is met:

• You are a member of at least one common group with the searched user.
• You are the manager of the search user.
• You are the instructor of a program session assigned to the searched user.
• The searched user is an instructor in one of your program sessions.

Visibility rules for groups

A group can appear in search results if you are a member of this group.

Visibility rules for learning needs

A Learning Need can appear in search results if you are a member of the group linked to the Learning Need.

Searchable fields

Every time you search for content on the platform, a relevance score is assigned to each of the returned results. The result with the highest score is returned first, and the result with the lowest score is returned last.

We support prefix matching, but not wildcard search: this means that searching for "note" can display results for "notepad" and "notebook", but not "keynote".

When searching for courses, paths, program sessions, users, groups, learning needs, and activities, your search is based on fields.

Searchable fields for courses

Searchable fields for paths

Searchable fields for program sessions

Searchable fields for activities (cheat sheets and videos)

You can search for cheat sheets (through their text content) and video documents (through their transcript).

Searchable fields for classrooms

Searchable fields for users

• Name of the user

Searchable fields for groups

• Name of the group

Searchable fields for learning needs

• Name of the learning need