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Advanced Search
Search Tips
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World Lecture Hall's Advanced
Search offers you a variety of ways to search for the course
materials you want. You may search for words or topics you are interested
in, those you want to exclude, and features you may find helpful.
Keep in mind that for the time being, you can search only for
the following:
- course names
- course components
- the course author's name
- the name of the institution that hosts the course material, and
- comments supplied by the course author
You cannot search course content itself, so we recommend that
you keep the search relatively simple.
That said, here are some tips for using
the advanced search.
You may enter more than one keyword at a time. To search for all
the words you specified, click all. Conversely, to search for
any of the words you specified individually, click any.
For example, if you wanted to search for all microbiology courses
at the University of Texas, you could search for "microbiology texas"
with all clicked. Doing this search with any clicked would gather
all the microbiology courses in WLH, as well as all those at the University
of Texas. It may even gather courses about Texas history.
If, on the other hand, you wanted to search for all the courses
in WLH from McGill University and the University of Toronto, you
would use the keywords "mcgill toronto" and
any clicked. Here, searching with all clicked would likely return
no classes, since few courses if any are offered at both McGill and Toronto.
You may enter words, concepts, institutions, etc. you wish to avoid.
For example, if you are looking for all microbiology classes not
offered at Texas, you could enter "microbiology" into the Keywords field
and "texas" into the Exclude field. The Exclude field gives you
the choice between excluding all or any of the words entered. So,
for example, if you entered "texas a&m" into the Exclude field with all
clicked, no courses from Texas A&M University will be retrieved in the search.
Executing that search with any clicked will exclude classes from classes
from the University of Texas as well as Alabama A&M University.
This function allows you to resrict your search to a specific area
of study. The default, All areas, searchs all course categories.
If you wish to restrict your search to several categories, we recommend you
leave this bar set to All areas and include the names of those categories
in the keywords field. Similarily, you may exclude categories by entering
them in the exclude field.
You can restrict your search further by specifying that all
results in your search contain certain components by clicking
any combination of boxes in the All results include list:
And finally, the Sort results list allows you to specify how the
results are sorted, so that you can more easily find your desired
course materials once the search is returned. Note here that, too, you
can enter more than one option:
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