Search filters help you find the right courses faster.

In this guide: 

• Begin your search
• Understand your results
• Filter your results
• Example

If you prefer videos, see the following overview:

Begin your search

From your OpenSesame dashboard or the login screen, click the search bar:

Our most popular searches appear, and you can select one for quick results. Otherwise, type your search term.

Related searches appear first, followed by Curated Lists and individual courses. Each suggestion can be clicked:

For full results, submit your text.

Understand your results

Search results appear in a grid, with an illustrated card for each course:

Each image was selected by the publisher to reflect the course's content. A Plus banner appears if the course is included in the OpenSesame Plus subscription. 

The course's title, publisher, and an icon indicating its content style appear next. (For more on styles, see Filter your results.) The course may also have a label saying it's New, Updated, or Exclusive to OpenSesame.

A feedback rating appears, when available, and then a seat time. Finally, a globe and number represent the available languages.

If you prefer a more compact display, switch from the default grid to a list view:

Use the Sort By tool to change which factor is most important. The default is Relevance, which uses OpenSesame's algorithms to suggest good matches. You can also sort by when a course was added or updated, its rating, its title (from A-Z or Z-A), or its price:

With the default sort order and display, up to three recommendation sections appear:

1. Curated Lists
2. Popular courses, based on OpenSesame ratings and usage
3. New and recently updated courses

All other results follow.

The top twenty-five results appear automatically. To continue browsing, click Load More for the next twenty-five.

Filter your results

To narrow down your results, use filters. 

If you prefer videos, see the following walkthrough:

By default, the filter bar is expanded:

To condense it, click any filter's arrow to hide that filter:

There are many options for granular searching.

• The OpenSesame Plus toggle, which is on by default, limits search results to courses included in the OpenSesame Plus subscription.
• Category offers broad catalog topics. To search within a category, select it.
• Product Type lets you include, exclude, or search only for Curated Lists.
• Publishers limits results to specific course creators. For courses available only from OpenSesame, turn on the OpenSesame Exclusive toggle.
• Languages lets you select content languages and translations. More details follow on how this filter operates.
• Accessibility Standards requires results to meet key accessibility benchmarks.
• Competencies limits results to courses relevant to the OpenSesame Primary Competency Model.
• Style lets you select the formats your learners prefer, such as:
  • Audio
  • Book summary
  • eBook
  • Interactive
  • Virtual reality
• Course Features lets you require popular features, such as quizzes.
• Seat Time represents how much time a learner needs to complete a course, according to the publisher.
• Ratings, when available, are based on feedback provided by OpenSesame learners within the course. (If you use a learning platform with its own feedback tools, feedback collected by your platform isn't shared with OpenSesame.)
• Price represents the full price of one non-subscription license to a course, if purchased individually. To view prices, switch from the default grid display to a list view.
• Accreditation Organizations limits results to courses that offer Continuing Education (CE) credit hours. 

When you use multiple filters, they work together using "and." For example, selecting category X, publisher Y, and course feature Z shows courses that meet all those requirements.

The Languages filter works the same way. OpenSesame organizes languages in three ways:

1. Course Text
2. Subtitles
3. Audio

Course Text describes a course’s primary interactive content, such as the user interface.

Note: If the Languages filter is inaccessible, try removing any Publisher filters. A publisher might support your target languages, but in a different combination of filters.

Here's how to search for popular combinations:

• Course Text only - To find courses with primary content that matches your selected language(s), keep the default, where only the Course Text toggle is on. (If you use this filter to search for two or more languages and there are no exact matches, you receive the closest available results.)
• Subtitles only - Turn on the Subtitles Translated toggle and turn off the others.
• Audio only - Turn on the Audio Translated toggle and turn off the others.
• Subtitles and audio - Turn on the Subtitles and Audio toggles, and turn off the Course Text toggle.

Depending on your results, you can also filter within a language. For example, it's possible to avoid British or Australian English if you want courses with an American accent, or favor Canadian French over European French. If a language has such variations available, click its arrow to review them.

Example

A search for "management" has thousands of initial results. Applying the following filters narrows those results to 47:

• Language: English
• Skill: Project Management
• Seat time: 1 hour +
• Rating: Four stars or more
• Accreditation organization: The Project Management Institute (PMI)

By default, up to three active filters follow the number of results. If you applied more than three filters, click More to reveal them:

To remove a filter and immediately update the results, click the active filter's X. In this example, removing the accreditation filter increases the results to 117 courses.

If you navigate away from search results and then return, your selected filters remain active.

Finally, if you would prefer instant course suggestions instead of manual searching, see How to use Smart Lists.

If you have further questions, our Support team is here to help at support@opensesame.com or via live chat and phone. Reach us at (503) 808-1268, ext. 2 (U.S.) or +44 203 744 5541 (Europe).