Our teachers would like to search for phrases/tiles of topics to import without having to specify a specific teacher, class and year.
Sometimes it has been a few years since the teacher taught a course and the topic was one he/she had taught in a number of different classes and years. They currently have to have put it in the topic bank or click through a number of classes and years to find it. If they could just find it for any year and class and select one from the resulting list, that would be efficient for them.
A general search bar that spans all Topics from all teachers in all years would be lovely, per one of our teachers.
Yes, a topics-first approach to navigating the topic bank would be helpful. I just dealt with a very confusing situation yesterday where one teacher in a co-taught class had added topics to a topic bank, and, as they were showing up under the other teacher's name, the third, recipient, teacher was not finding them under the sharer's name (had to look under the co-teacher's name). Far better to be able to search for topics!