Create Canvas quizzes for risk awareness checks
Turn a control requirement into a quick check that shows whether the message landed.
Trigger
Webhook received
Notis starts this workflow when an external tool or custom backend sends an HTTP request.
Action
Create Quiz
Creates a new quiz with various settings in a specified existing canvas course; `assignment group id` applies only to graded quiz types.
Why this helps
Teams may read guidance without demonstrating that they understand the required behavior.
- Turn requirements into checks
- Create a repeatable awareness step
- Make understanding visible
Setup
Build it in a few focused steps.
- 1Connect your 21risk and Canvas accounts in Notis once.
- 2Create an automation named Risk awareness quiz.
- 3Tell Notis to create a Canvas quiz from the approved 21risk control, including purpose, settings, and grading intent.
- 4Choose a notis_webhook trigger for the control payload.
- 5Select a report channel and test with one control.
Questions about this workflow
Can it create the questions too?
This action creates the quiz; use the quiz question action for questions.
Can it create an ungraded quiz?
Yes. Specify the quiz type and grading behavior.
When this happens · Trigger
Do this · Action
Supported Triggers and Actions
Notis builds workflows that link 21risk to Canvas. A trigger fires from one place; an action lands in another.
21risk triggers
Canvas actions
Recurring trigger
Notis starts this workflow on a schedule, such as daily, weekly, or during business hours.
Create account notification
Creates a global notification within a canvas account, ensuring `end at` is after `start at` and any specified `notification roles` are valid.
Webhook trigger
Notis starts this workflow when an external tool or custom backend sends an HTTP request.
Create appointment group
Creates a new appointment group in canvas for schedulable time slots within specified course or group contexts.
Create an assignment
Creates a new assignment within a specified course in canvas lms.
Create assignment override
Creates an assignment override to adjust due/unlock/lock dates for an assignment in a course, targeting specific students (requires `title`), a group, or a course section; at least one target (`student ids`, `group id`, or `course section id`) is required.
Create Calendar Event
Creates a calendar event with options for recurrence (finite `rrule` series only), section-specific timings, and blackout dates within a specified context.
Create communication channel
Creates a new communication channel (e.g., email, sms, push) for an existing canvas user to receive notifications.
Create content share
Shares a canvas content item to specified users, if the sender has necessary permissions and receiver ids are valid.
Create conversation
Use to send messages in canvas by creating a new conversation or adding to an existing one; an existing conversation with the same recipients (and matching scope/filter, if specified) may be reused unless `force new` is true.
Connect any two apps with Notis in the middle.
21risk and Canvas, or any other combination from 1,000+ integrations.
When this happens · Trigger
Do this · Action
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