Search and help

Search

Search takes you quickly to a page, a course, a problem or a wiki page. Open it:

• with Ctrl K (⌘ K on a Mac);
• with the Search button (a magnifying glass) at the top of the sidebar;
• on a phone, with the search button in the top bar.

Ctrl K works while you type in a field too, except in the code editor, which uses this combination itself.

Screenshot to comeThe search dialog with a word typed and the groups “Pages”, “Courses” and “Problems”Student account with two courses, part of a problem's title typed into searchstudents/basics/command-search

Results come in groups:

Group	What is in it	What opens
Pages	My work, Inbox, Wiki	The page, in the current tab.
Courses	Your courses	The course’s Problems.
Problems	Problems of your courses whose title contains what you typed	The problem’s page, in a tab of its own.
Wiki	Wiki pages you can read whose title or text contains what you typed	The page in the wiki, in the current tab.
Help	Docs	This help site, in a new browser tab.

• Pages and courses are narrowed down as you type.
• Problems are searched once you type at least 2 characters; up to 20 results show, each with its course. While searching, “Searching…” shows. Search finds only the problems a course’s Problems page lists for you: a topic’s problems are found once the topic opens for you.
• Wiki pages are searched once you type at least 2 characters too; up to 10 pages show. Case and Lithuanian accents do not matter: saknu also finds “Šaknų”.
• Each wiki page shows its path, the pages above it, such as “Python › Loops”. When what you typed is in the page’s text rather than its title, a line from the text with the match shows under the title. Pages whose title matches come first.
• Search covers only your courses, their problems and the wiki pages you can read: published public pages and those of your courses’ organisations. Drafts and archived pages are never in it. For more results and filters, use the search in the wiki.
• When nothing matches, it says “Nothing found. Try another word.”

Pick a result with ↑ / ↓ and open it with Enter. Close search with Esc.

The help menu

The round ? button (Help) sits next to your name at the bottom of the sidebar. While the sidebar is hidden it is in the tab bar, and on a phone at the bottom of the navigation.

Item	What it does
Docs	Opens this help site in a new browser tab, in your interface language, at the students’ guide.
Keyboard shortcuts	Opens the list of keyboard shortcuts (?).
What’s new	Opens the release notes in a new browser tab.
The version, such as v0.1.0 · a1b2c3d	Selecting it copies a version line for a bug report, and “Copied” shows briefly. Hover over it to see when the version was built.

• If you are also a teacher in a course, Docs opens the staff guide.
• If the help site is not set up, Docs and What’s new are hidden.
• The same version line is at the bottom of the settings sidebar.

Reporting a bug

When something goes wrong, copy the version line and add it to your message to your teacher: it shows which version of the app you are using.

Keyboard shortcuts

Press ? anywhere in the app (when you are not typing in a field), or choose Keyboard shortcuts in the help or account menu. A short list of the general shortcuts opens. Every shortcut, including the code editor’s and the lists’: Keyboard shortcuts.