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Course Search

Maintained by Yurii Lysak
Enables teachers to add a powerful search bar to courses with floating quick-access widget, smart result grouping, multi-occurrence highlighting, and comprehensive content search across all activity types.
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Supports Moodle 4.4-5.2 See all versions
Latest release: 2 weeks ago
Installations: 64
Downloads (last 90 days): 204
Frankenstyle name: mod_coursesearch
Activities

A comprehensive Moodle activity module that enables teachers to add a search bar to courses, allowing students to search through course content with automatic highlighting of search terms.

Key Features

Powerful Search

  • Comprehensive search through all course content types (Pages, Forums, Books, Labels, Wiki, Lessons, Glossary, Database, H5P, Folders)
  • Multiple occurrences support - finds all matches in content
  • Search filter options
  • Embedded mode to show search bar directly on course page

Smart Result Organization

  • Results grouped by course sections (optional per activity)
  • Collapsible activity grouping - multiple matches within the same activity are grouped together
  • Pagination for large result sets

     

  • Teachers can choose between grouped or flat list display

Floating Quick-Access Widget

  • Floating search widget appears on course page
  • Instant access to search without navigating to the activity page
  • Configurable vertical offset position
  • Automatically adapts to Moodle theme colors

Advanced Highlighting

  • Automatic scrolling to matched content
  • Multi-occurrence highlighting - highlights ALL matches when opening grouped results
  • Specific occurrence highlighting - highlights exact match when clicking individual results
  • Smart fallback for text inside links
  • Bootstrap accordion support (automatically expands collapsed sections)
  • Works on: Pages, Books, Lessons, Wiki, Forums, Glossary, Database, Labels

     

Admin Settings

  • Enable/disable highlighting globally
  • Enable/disable floating widget
  • Configure floating widget position
  • Configure results displayed per page
  • Configure maximum occurrences per content item
  • Configure placeholder exclusion patterns

Supported Languages: English, German, Ukrainian

Requirements: Moodle 4.4+, PHP 7.4+, modern browser with JavaScript enabled

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