Viable Search Method?

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Has anyone discovered a website, a useful custom Google search, or any other way to ‘discover’ custom Desmos activities (either from a specific creator or related to a specific topic)? Any update or rumors of Desmos developing a method for users to be able to search through ALL activities?

I can only imagine how many amazing activities, ideas, etc. are out there that I have no way of discovering, utilizing, or using as a building block to create something of my own. Seems silly to me that there aren’t official Desmos collections as well as ways to discover unvetted activities/collections…

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I use this custom search in Google Chrome:

https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&as_epq=%s&as_eq=teacherguide&lr=lang_en&as_sitesearch=teacher.desmos.com

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Thanks for your response!

I tried using this search but am not finding many activities. Does that search only return the vetted or sponsored activities/collections?

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I seem to get a pretty good variety.

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I got one result for a “Social Security” search. I know there are dozens and dozens of Desmos activities related to social security (for an Advanced Financial Algebra class I teach). I’ve created at least 5 myself over the past 3 years, I know Next Gen Personal Finance has a couple, and other teachers in my county and state teaching the same class have created related Desmos activities as well. I’d love to collaborate and see what others are doing, but can’t seem to find any reasonable way to discover others’ activities…

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hmmm… :thinking:
I removed the quotes and got one more result, which was a collection, so that was a bunch more.
Lucky, but, admittedly, not an outcome one can count on.
I may have been missing results all along, but didn’t realize it since I was still getting at least a page of results.
I’m stumped. :person_shrugging:

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I just use chrome and type the content I’m looking for and then this tag at the end: site:teacher.desmos.com/activitybuilder/custom

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Thanks for the suggestion @Steve_Rinard. I think the results shown via this search method are limited to a certain number of activities (either those create before a certain date and/or those promoted by Desmos). Using your search tag I ran into the same issues getting results for Social Security activities as I did with the search suggestion from @Smithmath

Below are just a couple that I personally know exist (because I created them) that I can’t find via any Google search. I know there are many others out there as well. It just seems like there is no reliable way to find all (or even most) activities created on a certain topic, by a certain creator, etc.

Social Security and Medicare (FICA) Taxes 2024

Pensions, Social Security Benefits, and COLAs

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Oh my gosh, I just realized that your method is equivalent to what I typed out. Sorry about that.

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No worries! I appreciate any responses or ideas I can get.