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The search trigger across Canvas should work with just two characters and not require three. Some names (like Xi) only have two characters, and this would make the people search more efficient if just two characters were required to activate the search trigger. A two-character trigger would also help when searching courses, whether the term designator has two characters or of the course names include the instructor's name.
Edward Elliott 
This issue was just sent to me and my suggestion was to search for the instructors first name and the two character last name. (Made up example: Abe Lo ). This makes me ponder how many people have two names that contain just two characters each.
I also wonder why three characters had been selected. Perhaps there would be too many variations with just the two characters? For example, when I search for just 'erne', which is part of my last name without the beginning and last letter, I receive results that contain that part of my name. Now if I search for 'ern', as expected the results expand greatly. Now I need to search through the search results.