This is for Trello. All of my boards are public as I am storing teacher resource materials on them

Question

All of my boards are public because I am storing teacher resource information on them. But when a Trello user searches for them - with the EXACT name of the Board, nothing comes up for them.  Why does this happen? how can I fix this?  If everyone has to be invited to a Board, then what is the point of a public board????  thank you.

Katrin Anger · Answer

@Mallory Perry

Jumping in again here.

Just came across a Chrome Extension that lets you search for boards in Trello. I have the feeling that this could be what you are looking for.

Iain Dooley · Answer

@Mallory Perry public boards are searchable via Google, but they aren't searchable from within Trello. Trello's search feature searches cards on all boards a user has access to, and the board menu shows boards you're a member of.

What might be a better model for you than making boards public is to add them to a team, make them team viewable and then invite people to that team. That way they can view the boards in that team, but not edit them. You can choose whether or not to enable "self join" for team members, and whether or not to allow commenting.

Mallory Perry · Answer

Thanks!  I will try to do a search with one of my cards!