[ARCHIVED] How can I search announcements?

[pbressler]

I know I've shared a particular topic in a prior announcement, but I don't see a way to search. The search on the announcement page only seems to search titles. I need to search the body of text.

[kona · Accepted solution]

 @pbressler , unfortunately this functionality isn't currently available in Canvas. I did a quick search of the Canvas Studio‌ and this is the closest I could find to what you are wanting - https://community.canvaslms.com/ideas/1165-comprehensive-course-search-tool-searching-course-content.... If you think this would cover what you are wanting, then I would recommend voting and commenting on this feature idea. If you don't believe that this is what you are wanting, then you could always create your own feature idea for this functionality.

Hope this helps!

Kona

[pbressler]

How does one create a feature request?

Phil Bressler, Principal

Pittsburg High School

1978 E. 4th St.

Pittsburg, Kansas 66762

office: (620) 235-3200

cell: (620) 704-9204

email: pbressler@usd250.org <pbressler@usd250.org>

website: www.usd250.org <http://www.usd250.org>

On Thu, Oct 25, 2018 at 9:33 PM kona@richland.edu <instructure@jiveon.com>

[kona]

Here’s information on the process - How does the feature idea process work in the Canvas Community?  - and I can’t seem to get to the place to submit a new idea from my phone, but I’m pretty sure it’s on the right side of this page (scroll down to the middle of the page) - Canvas Studio 

[pbressler]

Thanks. It is now an idea!

Phil Bressler, Principal

Pittsburg High School

1978 E. 4th St.

Pittsburg, Kansas 66762

office: (620) 235-3200

cell: (620) 704-9204

email: pbressler@usd250.org <pbressler@usd250.org>

website: www.usd250.org <http://www.usd250.org>

On Fri, Oct 26, 2018 at 7:36 PM kona@richland.edu <instructure@jiveon.com>

[tclements1]

I've wanted this feature for a long time, but I have found a roundabout way to do it.

To search the text of announcements in Canvas (not just the titles) as an instructor:

1. Open your course in student view (this does not work in instructor mode)
2. Go to the announcements page
3. In your browser, Select All (Control-A Windows, Command-A Mac) and copy (Control-C Windows, Command-C Mac)
4. Open a text editor (preferably one without style support (I use TextWrangler on Mac), or if you know how to, paste into Word or other document program without style information to make readability better))
5. Paste the text from the browser into the text editor (Control-V Windows, Command-V Mac)

The editor should now have all the titles and text of your announcements that were on that page. When you do a search within your text editor, you'll find the text and you just have to look above it to see what the title of the announcement is. If you have multiple pages of announcements, you'll have to do this for each page. I don't know of a way of increasing the number of announcements shown on each page.

It's not pretty, but it works.

Cheers,
Todd