You can search much of the content of your edX courses, including the course title, description, text, and video transcripts. You can search for a term in an individual course, or you can search for that term in all of the courses that you are enrolled in, whether the course is active or archived. When the search engine returns results, either for an individual course or across all courses, you can select any search result to view that result in the courseware.
Note
Course exercises and problems, including homework and exam problems, are not currently searchable.
The search engine returns not only exact matches for search terms, but also matches that contain the search term. These matches must contain the entire search term. For example, a search for “grade” returns results for “grades” and “graded”, but a search for “graded” would not return “grade” or “grades”.
To search for a term in a single course, go to the Courseware page for that course, enter your search term in the Search field in the upper left corner of the page, and then press Enter. Your search term can contain more than one word.
After you press Enter, your search results appear in the right pane. The search results include the following items.
To view your search term in the body of the course, select View to the right of the search result.
Note
You cannot use the Search field on the Courseware tab to search course discussions. To search course discussions, use the Search all posts field on the Discussions tab. For more information, see Course Discussions.
You can search for a term across all your edX courses. To do this, go to your dashboard, enter your search term in the Search Your Courses field in the upper right corner of the page, and then press Enter. Your search term can contain more than one word.
After you press Enter, your search results appear on the Search Results page. The search results include the following items.
To view your search term in the body of the course, select View to the right of the search result.