Course catalogue: finding the course you want
Search by name, filter by level, field or tag, and keep only the free courses when that is what you need.
The course catalogue at /courses is the front door of Ekati. It lists every course a school has chosen to publish publicly — free and paid — and it is built to be forgiving: you type a few words and the list narrows while you type, and every filter can be undone in one click.
You need no account to browse, to read a course page, or to see what a course costs. You only need one to join, and a free course can be joined the moment you are signed in.
Two kinds of people arrive with different questions. A learner wants the right subject at the right level. A parent wants to know what their child would actually study, who would teach it and what it costs. The filters below are the same for both, and none of them hide results from you.
Search and filter in four moves
The catalogue reacts as you type, so you can always widen the search again.
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Step 1
Type in the search box
The box at the top of the page reads “Search courses…”. It matches the course title, the course code, its tags and its fields.
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Step 2
Choose a level
The first row of pills starts at All levels and then lists each level the catalogue has. Click one and only that level stays.
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Step 3
Narrow by field, tag or free only
Fields group courses by subject, tags are the shortcuts schools use most, and Free only removes every priced course from the list.
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Step 4
Read the counter, then open a course
A counter on the right says how many courses matched. Click a card to open the full course page before you decide anything.
Searching the catalogue
One box, and it understands more than you would expect.
One box, four kinds of match
The search box looks for what you type in four different places: the title of the course, its code, its tags and its fields. So a parent who knows the subject, a learner who has been told the course code and someone who remembers a topic all search the same way and all get the right answer.
The list refreshes as you type, and the small cross at the right of the box clears the text in one click. You never have to reload or press a search button.
Searching by tag
Type a number sign before a word — #revision, for example — and the search looks inside tag names only. That is the fastest way to gather everything on one topic, whatever the schools who published it call it. The row of Tags further down the page shows the most used shortcuts with a count beside each one; click one to apply it, and a Clear tag link appears to remove it.
Watch the counter
The line on the right reads “N courses found”, so you always know how much a search has narrowed things. If the number drops to zero, the page tells you plainly that no course matches your filters and offers a Clear filters button that puts every filter back to its default at once.
Filtering by level, field, tag and price
Filters combine: a level and a field and Free only is a normal thing to want.
Levels
The first row starts with All levels and then shows one pill per level that the catalogue actually contains — so you only ever filter by something real. A level pill stays selected until you choose another one or go back to All levels.
Fields
A field is the subject a course belongs to. The second row starts at All fields and lists the fields that have public courses, each in its own colour. Filtering by a field is the quickest way to answer “what does this school actually teach?” when you are comparing schools.
Tags
Tags are the schools’ own labels, and they cross levels and subjects. They are the closest thing Ekati has to a topic, so they are also the most flexible filter you have — one click can gather a revision course from one school and an examination course from another.
Free only
The Free only pill keeps the courses that cost nothing and removes the rest. It is the filter to reach for when you are still deciding whether online learning is for you, or when the budget for a course is not the question today.
Reading the results
A course card carries more than a title — read it before you click.
What each card tells you
Every card shows the school offering the course, its logo and a link to that school’s profile; the title; the level and the code; up to three fields and three tags; a short description; and the price. A course nobody has reviewed yet is marked New, and once reviews exist the card carries the average score and the number of reviews.
Free, priced, or on promotion
A free course says Free in green and can be joined straight away. A priced course shows the amount, and when a school has put the course on promotion the old price is struck through beside a red discount badge, with the amount you save underneath.
Two ways to move from a card
Enroll for free on a free course, or Add to Cart to put a paid one in your basket and keep browsing. On a paid course there is also Enroll Now, which takes you straight to checkout with that single course. If you have already bought it, the card says Continue learning instead of a price.
Links you can send to someone else
A filtered catalogue is a real address you can share. Once you have searched or filtered, the page’s address holds the search word, the level, the field, the tag and the free flag, so sending that link reproduces exactly what you are looking at — which is the easiest way to show a parent or a relative.
Course catalogue questions
Asked by learners and parents who have just landed on the catalogue.
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How do I search for a course on Ekati?
Type in the search box at the top of /courses. It matches the title, the code, the tags and the fields of every public course, so typing the subject, the code or a topic all work. The list narrows as you type.
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Can I see only the free courses?
Yes. Click the Free only pill next to the levels and every priced course disappears, leaving only the ones that cost nothing. Combine it with a level or a field if you want free courses in one particular subject.
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What is the difference between a field and a tag?
A field is the subject a course belongs to, and there are usually a handful of them. A tag is a label a school applies to its own course — a topic, an exam year, a class. Fields sort the catalogue; tags gather the same theme across schools.
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Why does my search return nothing?
Usually because filters are still on from earlier. The counter will read “0 courses found” and the page offers a Clear filters button that resets the search word, the level, the field, the tag and Free only in one click. Then try a shorter search word, or start again from a field rather than a title.