About basic searching in Brightspace Learning Repository

The basic search gives you results based on occurrence of your search words in a learning object’s title, description, text, or keywords. It also suggests alternative spellings for you to help your search.

Searches are case insensitive and results display all the words that you include in your search. For example, if you search for mineral sciences, the results include matches for both mineral and sciences. However, the matches do not necessarily have mineral sciences included as a phrase.

A search sent to MERLOT might not use the exact matching criteria as the local repository search because of differences in the MERLOT service.