Start course check-ins with current Canvas details
Put the course details you want to review into a scheduled, concise brief.
Trigger
Recurring schedule
Notis starts this workflow on a schedule, such as daily, weekly, or during business hours.
Action
Get a single course
Retrieves detailed information for a specific canvas course using its `course id`, which must be valid, and allows for including additional data fields in the response via the `include` parameter.
Why this helps
A check-in takes longer when people first have to gather the current course details.
- Gather available course details before a recurring check-in.
- Reduce time spent locating basic course information.
- Keep the brief grounded in returned Canvas fields.
Setup
Build it in a few focused steps.
- 1Connect Ably and Canvas once in the Notis portal.
- 2Create an automation in Automations, New Automation, and name it.
- 3Tell Notis to retrieve the supplied course's details and summarize the fields useful for your check-in.
- 4Pick the recurring schedule trigger and choose where run reports should go.
- 5Test with one real course and verify the brief uses available fields.
Questions about this workflow
Can the brief include extra course fields?
Canvas supports an include parameter for additional data fields. Supply the fields you want and verify they are available.
Will it report activity trends?
This action retrieves course details. Use a separate activity analytics action for daily activity data.
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Supported Triggers and Actions
Notis builds workflows that link Ably to Canvas. A trigger fires from one place; an action lands in another.
Ably 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.
Ably and Canvas, or any other combination from 1,000+ integrations.
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