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	WebCT Faculty Tip Sheets Search Search allows you and your students to conduct a search for text within any course. Searching is limited to course content, the course Index, and Discussion articles. However, if you do not add the Index tool or the Discussions tool to your course, these options will not appear in the Search drop-down list. To add Search to your course: From the Control Panel, select Add Page or Tool. In the Content Utilities column, click Search. The Add Search screen appears. In the Enter a title for this item text box, enter the title as you want it to appear below the icon. Under Decide where to show the link to this item, select where you want the link to be displayed. Click Add. Search is added to your course. To conduct a text search: Click the Search icon. From the Search drop-down list, select the type of search: All All content module text Content module table of contents Heading tags within content pages Discussion articles In the Contains text box, enter a search term. Click Search. If the search is successful, each instance of the word or phrase appears as a link. Click the link to go to the page on which the search term appears. Note: Separate search tools are also included in the Mail and Discussion tool. For more information on using that search tool, please see the Mail and Discussion tip sheets.

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Last Updated: December 6, 2004
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