{"id":671,"date":"2006-03-16T09:02:22","date_gmt":"2006-03-16T17:02:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edtechpost.ca\/wordpress\/2006\/03\/16\/rollyo-search-all-major-course-management-system-sites\/"},"modified":"2006-03-16T09:02:22","modified_gmt":"2006-03-16T17:02:22","slug":"rollyo-search-all-major-course-management-system-sites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wordpress\/2006\/03\/16\/rollyo-search-all-major-course-management-system-sites\/","title":{"rendered":"Rollyo &#8211; Search all major Course Management System Sites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Course Management Systems Search Engine\" href=\"http:\/\/rollyo.com\/sleslie\/course_management_systems\/\">http:\/\/rollyo.com\/sleslie\/course_management_systems\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I knew I had to read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.educause.edu\/apps\/er\/erm06\/erm0621.asp\">Bryan Alexander&#8217;s Educause article on Web 2.0<\/a> not so much because the ideas would be new but because I knew that inevitably Bryan would point to some little gem in the ever growing Web 2.0 landscape that I hadn&#8217;t seen before.<\/p>\n<p>One that was new to me that he pointed to was <a href=\"http:\/\/rollyo.com\/\">Rollyo<\/a> &#8211; a site that lets you roll your own search index by providing up to 25 URLs you want indexed. I wanted to check it out, because ever since <a href=\"http:\/\/www.searchtools.com\/tools\/atomz.html\">Atomz was bought out a year ago<\/a>, I had been looking for a replacement free web-based service that would let me do this.<\/p>\n<p>To try out Rollyo, I built the above index that searches the top 20 (IMO) Course Management System sites. So say for instance, you wanted to find out which of <a href=\"http:\/\/rollyo.com\/search.html?prevsid=41336&amp;q=eXe+xhtml&amp;sid=41336&amp;x=24&amp;y=16\">these systems supported the &#8220;eXe  editor,&#8221;<\/a> or was <a href=\"http:\/\/rollyo.com\/search.html?q=blog&amp;x=49&amp;y=10&amp;sid=41336\">working on a blog project,<\/a> you could try searching across just those sites for those terms. It is definitely not infallible, but I have been intrigued by the use of constrained search engines as a way to either augment or replace certain types of directories, where what is being catalogued is well known and fixed (for instance, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bccampus.ca\/Page400.aspx\">all of the post-secondary course catalogues in a certain jurisdiction<\/a>). &#8211; <em>SWL<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/rollyo.com\/sleslie\/course_management_systems\/ I knew I had to read Bryan Alexander&#8217;s Educause article on Web 2.0 not so much because the ideas would be new but because I knew that inevitably Bryan would point to some little gem in the ever growing Web 2.0 landscape that I hadn&#8217;t seen before. One that was new to me that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wordpress\/2006\/03\/16\/rollyo-search-all-major-course-management-system-sites\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Rollyo &#8211; Search all major Course Management System Sites&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[63,371],"class_list":["post-671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-course-management-systems","tag-cms","tag-search"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}