Using Search within Blackboard
Note: The Search function in Blackboard has been temporarily disabled whilst a technical issue is resolved.
You may search for material within your Blackboard course. You may search within a single Blackboard course, or within all your Blackboard courses. The search tool will look within Announcements, Course Content appearing as text within Blackboard, Staff Information, HTML pages, DOC (Microsoft Word) files, PPT (Microsoft PowerPoint) files, PDF (Adobe Acrobat) files, Wikis, and Blogs. Other types of file or content uploaded to Blackboard may not be searchable.
Blackboard’s search index is updated once a day. When you perform a search you will be searching content that was indexed up to 24 hours ago. Therefore you may find that content that has only recently been added to Blackboard will not be returned by the search. You should not use the search feature to replace accessing material through browsing your Blackboard course. Please note that only "06-07" and "07-08" courses are currently indexed.
Access "My University of Southampton"
1. Having logged into Blackboard, you should arrive at the My University of Southampton screen.
2. Look to the top left of the screen for the Tools box. From within the Tools box click on Search Blackboard.
Using Search
3. Enter a word or phrase that you wish to search for in the text box.
4. If you wish, you may select whether you wish to search within a particular course, or search within all of the courses you have access to in Blackboard.
5. Click on Search.
Advanced Search
6. Note that an Advanced Search is also available by clicking on Advanced.
7. The advanced search allows you to search within a set number of courses, and narrow your search to certain types of content.
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