How to Search
Full-text searching supports a number of options, listed below. You can combine these to specify your search more precisely.
| search for these words | For basic searching of one or more words anywhere in the texts, just type them separated by spaces. All words longer than two characters are used. |
| +search +for these words | The previous example would also match "information" because it contains "for". To force exact matching of a word, use the plus sign. |
| +search -engine | Use the minus sign if there are particular exact words you don't want included in the search. |
| "search engine" | To search for a particular phrase, use double quotes around it. |
| user:Kim | To search for texts by a particular user, prefix a word from their name with "user:". |
| userid:6 | If you know the user id of a particular user, you can search for them like this. |
| subject:assessment | To search for a word within the subject or title of a text only, prefix the word with "subject:". |
For advanced searching, press the search button without typing anything in the words field - you will see a complete form that makes it easier to do advanced searches.