I was wondering if anyone is aware of a building block that provides search
facilities for course-sites ?
What we had in mind was a search box that queries either a specific course-
site or range of course-sites on which the user is enroled; I imagine the
search would be configurable by sys admin, allowing for a defined range of
document mime types, search-ranking options etc. I suppose there would be
the issue of whether or not the content-area pages themselves are included
in the process or whether only 'attached' documents are retrieved.
In essence I am talking about a search facility for Blackboard equivalent
to robust Web document indexing and retrieval 'engines' like Webinator.
If anyone is aware of a building block that does this, or one in
development could you reply to myself or the list?
We are fairly sure there will not be an internal search facility of this
kind in the forthcoming version 6 (at least not without the 3rd party
content management addition to the software.)
rgds
Paul Catherall
NEWI, Wrexham
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