Searching? Create your own Search Engine

We regularly send students to search the web for various reasons and items. Why not try to improve and narrow down their results to websites you trust? Create your own search engine! Preload it with only the sites you want students to review for the particular visit. This is beneficial, especially with younger students who are not as savvy at navigating their way through reliable sources and, at times, can get lost in space. Plus, you can make sure that there are sites available for each student’s topic.

Google Custom Search Engine

• Use your Google account to save the search settings which can be edited/updated after it is first created
• Enter in as many websites as you need to have available
• Limit searching to an exact page, subset of pages, or an entire website
• Set up one or multiple totally different searches depending on the topic or class
• Remove ads after creating the initial search (school accounts are considered as nonprofit thus allowing ads to be turned off for free)
• Share the final “public” link with your class on Schoology or use a URL shortener to make it easier to type in