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.

Hi -- It doesn't look like Smart Search has seen any updates in quite a long time, and the timeline/roadmap doesn't give any detail about what may be coming in the future (or indeed if this feature is still being worked on).  I'm curious to know if t...

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...

Does the Smart Search locate content that includes Videos that are in the course assignments? 

Hello! Something that I have noticed is that the search results shows content that is not being displayed on screen. Context: I have some pages where some of the text is hidden with the css attribute "display:none" (because we need to have it ready a...

Last September, we were generating tests in some courses with Smart Search and obtained the following results: a) Smart Search only searches based on KEYWORDS. The search engine neither understands nor processes phrases or questions. b) When searchin...

10/30 - Update: This issue can no longer be produced in Canvas. I assume they have resolved it on their end.  Smart Search is displaying scheduled announcement details to students before the instructor is ready for them to receive this information, h...

After I validated the links and cleaned up the course, I am still receiving messages such as: Links to other courses in this resource may not be accessible by the students in this course  516534?wrap=159643#LOCATION0and whole modules that I have dele...

Hi fellow feature previewers,I wanted to share some quick thoughts from my UX review of the new smart search, in case anyone’s curious. I use Morville’s User Experience Honeycomb as the framework for these reviews. It sounds fancy, but it’s really ju...

The nutrition label for Smart Search is helpful, but it doesn't seem to answer some additional questions our security team has as we investigate the implications of this feature. Broadly, I'm wondering if the overarching security/privacy policies and...

Through initial investigations, and after talking with a Canvas rep, it appears that Smart Search can't be enabled at the course level. Also, if it is enabled at the admin level, it will automatically be visible in the navigation pane of all courses....

I'm an instructional designer, and I got some good feedback from one instructor who used Smart Search. Here are his comments. IDK if I'm putting this feedback in the right place, but if it needs to be posted elsewhere, let me know. sue --- The idiosy...

Will the Smart Search become available to test in the Canvas TEST environment. I could see in TEST the account level and course level options to enable but could never get the course navigation item to either force display (if account enabled and cou...

1. Found out the smart search surfaced unpublished pages. Please make sure unpublished content is not included in the search database.2. User search logs could be valuable, as to show what students are looking for and things that may need improvement...

Three disappointments: Search wouldn’t find video contentSearch didn’t prioritize based on page/assignment typeSearch separated topics into disconnected disparate topics   Context: I’m an instructional designer, not a Math Professor. In my testing e...

Hello fellow smart search testers. What are your thoughts so far?  At this point I am not finding the smart search feature to be particularly useful and I probably won't continue until someone from Instructure announces a major improvement.  In my ex...

We are looking to enable in a specific subaccount in our instance where we normally pilot things. While drawing up some communications to users to get interest piloters, we found a 3rd party tool with the same product name.  Is this 3rd party tool co...

Hello fellow SmartSearch beta testers! I am curious as how you plan to beta test at your institution. Will you go campus wide? Are asking specific programs or instructors to test it in their courses?  Thank you in advance for sharing!