While not answering exactly the same question, you might want to look at this other post which is related: https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Smart-Search-Feature-Preview/SmartSearch-Exact-Matches/td-p/651634

Hi @jperkins ,  great to hear your plans for replacing the search engine. Similarly (but somewhat opposite) to what @jbeast is proposing, I've found  in my tests, that sometimes I want to *only* retrieve semantic matches and *not* keyword-based match...

Hey Jeremy @jperkins , thanks for the reply. Exciting to hear there are improvements in the pipeline. Chris

This extension is brilliant - does exactly what I needed, and has many features I don't need (yet). Thanks, chriscas.

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Chris @jbeast, We definitely hear you and know that this is desirable behavior. The current engine behind Smart Search is unfortunately limited in what it can do, but we have work in progress currently to replace the engine with a better one over the...

Hi @gwied, I don't think it's possible to have smart search work in that way.  If you use Chrome or Edge as your web browser, you may want to check out the Canvas LMS Mods (Basic) - Chrome Web Store extension developed by @Code-with-Ski, as it has a ...

@emilyk23 @jperkins  Do you have any updates on this? Is Smart Search still being worked on?

Hi @jfountain , Unfortunately I cannot help you with the embedding, only with the mobile aspect.  For mobile, if the Smart Search tab is visible in the navigation of the course settings in the web, it will be displayed automatically on the mobile app...

I'd like to be able to embed the Smart Search feature on a Canvas course home page. Has anybody found a clean way to do this? I tried an iFrame and it looks odd plus I don't think it would work well on mobile.

@DanielSteen Thank you for your UX review. We took this feedback (as well as other customer feedback) and have a refreshed UX we're testing. We'd love your participation and feedback (as well as anyone else).  https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Smart...

Thanks for the reply! I would push back and say that the pages navigation link takes you to an alphabetical list of pages. This is not very helpful for students; its like  creating website with no navigation structure, but is simply an alphabetical l...

This was an intentional change to limit access to content accessible to users through navigating a course. Customer feedback indicated that teachers didn't want pages to be displayed to students that weren't navigable via the UI. Now, that being said...

@JenniferJBland Hi! I know this is a later response, however I wanted to contribute. I did some testing like @ProfessorBeyrer did, and depending on the embed or with how it was linked, sometimes it would pop up but other times it wouldn't. So I guess...

Great catch! I was doing some testing myself and noticed it was not working for students. This is definitely a bug. In most scenarios, instructors hide the Pages link as this is more a repository where pages are stored, as opposed to an area where st...

Works if Pages is showing, and not Modules & vice versa. So only needs one. 

Some of our Canvas courses hide both the pages & modules in the left-hand menu. I've noticed that Smart Search will not return results if these are hidden (both for student view & for 'real' students). Still works for teachers. Is this a bug or a fea...

Thorough answer that is also exactly what I was hoping to hear. Thank you!

We are planning to add some additional scope to Smart Search in Q2. We're re-working some things on the backend to improve how/where we store indexed content. Indexing files is a top priority, but I am unsure when test questions will be included in t...

@ProfessorBeyrer Thanks for sharing your findings! Course navigation is persisted through caching for users and changing any feature flag that adds to it won't remove the nav item until the user's cache is refreshed for the course (easiest way is to ...

Sorry @JenniferJBland. I just realized I did my testing with Simple Search, not Smart Search. In my classes I just see a "Search" link in the Course Navigation menu. Guess I'm a bit more simple than smart myself. 藍

Great question, @JenniferJBland and welcome to the Community! I did some testing and found that the search does find videos that are embedded in assignments. Note that it searches neither the video captions nor the description of Studio videos (even ...

@sgarcia1 Thank you for your response back! You're correct, it doesn't make sense that the preview is providing the full URL. I honestly don't understand why it's doing that, unless it's purposely set up that way and Canvas ignores the display:none. ...