# How to enable Dashboard Search for students to search for content across all the courses in Open edX

**URL:** https://discuss.openedx.org/t/how-to-enable-dashboard-search-for-students-to-search-for-content-across-all-the-courses-in-open-edx/4468
**Category:** Site Operators
**Created:** [March 9, 2021, 8:59am UTC](https://discuss.openedx.org/t/how-to-enable-dashboard-search-for-students-to-search-for-content-across-all-the-courses-in-open-edx/4468 "2021-03-09T08:59:03Z")
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### Author: ![madhumohan](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/discuss.openedx.org/madhumohan/32/1964_2.png) [@madhumohan](https://discuss.openedx.org/u/madhumohan)
#### Post date: [March 9, 2021, 8:59am UTC](https://discuss.openedx.org/t/how-to-enable-dashboard-search-for-students-to-search-for-content-across-all-the-courses-in-open-edx/4468/1 "2021-03-09T08:59:03Z")

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Hi Team,  
How to enables Dashboard Search for students to search for content across all the courses in open edx.  
Please do the needful

Regard’s  
Madhu

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### Author: ![cocococosti](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/discuss.openedx.org/cocococosti/32/2376_2.png) [@cocococosti](https://discuss.openedx.org/u/cocococosti)
#### Post date: [April 11, 2021, 6:18pm UTC](https://discuss.openedx.org/t/how-to-enable-dashboard-search-for-students-to-search-for-content-across-all-the-courses-in-open-edx/4468/2 "2021-04-11T18:18:00Z")

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Here you can find the instructions on how to enable and configure dashboard search [4.8. Enabling Open edX Search — Installing, Configuring, and Running the Open edX Platform documentation](https://edx.readthedocs.io/projects/edx-installing-configuring-and-running/en/latest/configuration/edx_search.html)

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### Author: ![Herve\_siyou](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/discuss.openedx.org/herve_siyou/32/1452_2.png) [@Herve\_siyou](https://discuss.openedx.org/u/Herve_siyou)
#### Post date: [April 13, 2021, 12:38pm UTC](https://discuss.openedx.org/t/how-to-enable-dashboard-search-for-students-to-search-for-content-across-all-the-courses-in-open-edx/4468/3 "2021-04-13T12:38:16Z")

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> [@madhumohan](#):
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> enables Dashboard Search for students to search for content across all the courses in open edx.

According to the official documentation, the flag `ENABLE_DASHBOARD_SEARCH` : Enables and disables Dashboard Search feature ( **in enrolled courses searching** ).