Check whether Canvas assignments explain the risk work
Catch confusing instructions before people start the wrong compliance task.
Trigger
Recurring schedule
Notis starts this workflow on a schedule, such as daily, weekly, or during business hours.
Action
Get assignment
Retrieves detailed information for a specific assignment within a given course in canvas.
Why this helps
An assignment can exist while still missing the context needed to complete it correctly.
- Find unclear task descriptions
- Reduce clarification messages
- Review only relevant assignments
Setup
Build it in a few focused steps.
- 1Connect your 21risk and Canvas accounts in Notis once.
- 2Create an automation named Assignment context check.
- 3Tell Notis to fetch specified Canvas assignments and compare their details with related 21risk action context, listing unclear or missing instructions.
- 4Choose a notis_cron schedule for the check.
- 5Select a report channel and test with one assignment.
Questions about this workflow
Does this edit assignments?
No. It produces a review for your decision.
Can it check several assignments?
Yes. Provide the course and assignment ids.
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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