What is Atomic Search?

Discover Atomic Search's features, including easy searching of course content, with results from pages, files, assignments, and more.

Atomic Search is an LTI tool that lets you search the full text of your course content in your LMS. Atomic Search is supported in Canvas, Blackboard, and Brightspace. 

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Accessing Atomic Search in Canvas

Accessing Atomic Search in Blackboard Learn

Accessing Atomic Search in Brightspace

Using Atomic Search

Accessing Atomic Search in Canvas

You can access Atomic Search from the global navigation menu, the course navigation menu, or from a search box at the top right of Canvas screens.

Accessing Atomic Search in Blackboard Learn

You can access Atomic Search at the top right of your home page, the top right of a course's home page, or in the left-hand course navigation menu under Tools.

Accessing Atomic Search in Brightspace

You can access Atomic Search at the top right of the My Home page, the top right of a course's home page, or in the left-hand course navigation menu.

Using Atomic Search

1. Type in your search term and press Enter.

   1. You can do wildcard searches (e.g. mus*) and phrase searches (e.g. “music history”)

2. Search results will display the title of the item, its location in the course, and a snippet showing the context in which your search terms were found. The tags next to each search result show the type of item found.

3. Click on a search hit to navigate directly to the content.

Search results depend on your permissions in an LMS course. Students see results only for published content. Teachers and Admins see both published and unpublished content.

If content you know exists in the course is not showing up in the search results, try reindexing the course, and search again. 

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