Browsing the catalog

Find cases that matter to you with search, always-visible filters, and Extended search — and learn what every case card tells you at a glance.

The catalog is the shared, public library of case reports. You reach it from the main navigation, and it opens on the "Find What Interests You" page — a live count of available cases followed by a list of case cards.

Search

At the top is a search box. Type anything — a behaviour, a diagnosis, a phrase from a situation — and Edustories searches across case content to narrow the list. Search works together with the filters below it.

Always-visible filters

These filters are shown all the time, because they're the ones educators reach for most:

Age — pick an age range; you can also include cases where the age is unknown.
Challenging behavior — filter by one or more behaviours (this is the "disorder" field).
Diagnosis — filter by one or more diagnoses.
Other — filter by content-sensitivity facets (for example, cases flagged for self-harm or violence).

Extended search

Open Extended search for finer control:

Hobbies — find cases involving particular interests.
Solution — filter by whether the educator's approach was a success (Successful / Unsuccessful). This is described as the success rate of the user's solution.
Country — the country where the idea originated.
Verified authors — limit to cases written by verified authors.
Anonymous author — limit to (or include) cases published anonymously.

A Rating scale is also available, letting you show only better-rated cases (for example, "1 and above" through "4 and above").

Clearing filters

Clear Filters resets everything at once. Note that the Solution filter returns to its default of showing Successful cases only.

Only useful filter values appear. Edustories offers a filter value only when at least one case actually uses it. So you'll never pick a diagnosis or behaviour that returns zero results — the lists stay relevant to what's really in the catalog.

What a case card shows

Each result is a card that summarises the case so you can decide whether to open it:

Badges:
- New — added within the last 7 days.
- Draft — a not-yet-published case (only on cases you can see as the author or an admin).
- Saved — you've bookmarked this case.
- Successful / Unsuccessful — how the educator's approach turned out.
- Verified author (a green check) or Contributor — who wrote it; either may also be marked Anonymous author.
Title and Summary.
Tags (grey) — quick facts like age in years, diagnoses, challenging behaviours, and hobbies.
Created date and a comments count.
On related cases, a Similarity percentage shown as a small pie — see Finding related cases.

Old links still work. Earlier the catalog was called the "database". Any old /database/... link automatically redirects to the matching case, so saved or shared links keep working.

Your own cases live in your Profile, and cases you bookmark live on the Saved page — see Saving cases & personal tags.

Next step

Reading a case report

Open a case and explore the detail page