Post weekly 21risk reviews to a Canvas discussion
Keep risk work visible with a short weekly post.
Trigger
Recurring schedule
Notis starts this workflow on a schedule, such as daily, weekly, or during business hours.
Action
Create discussion entry
Tool to create a new entry in a canvas discussion topic. use when posting a message with optional attachments to a discussion topic.
Why this helps
Risk updates disappear across tools when people do not know where to look.
- Create a predictable weekly checkpoint
- Summarize open compliance work
- Give collaborators one discussion thread
Setup
Build it in a few focused steps.
- 1Connect your 21risk and Canvas accounts in Notis once.
- 2Create an automation named Weekly risk review.
- 3Tell Notis to summarize new, overdue, and blocked 21risk items and post the update to the chosen Canvas discussion topic.
- 4Choose a notis_cron schedule such as every Monday morning.
- 5Select a report channel and test with one real review period.
Questions about this workflow
Does this need a new discussion topic every week?
No. Tell Notis to add each update to an existing topic.
Can the summary focus on overdue items?
Yes. Specify the statuses or categories to include.
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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