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Keep grading activity visible with a recurring review

Get a regular view of the dates with grading activity and the graders Canvas reports.

Trigger

Recurring schedule

Notis starts this workflow on a schedule, such as daily, weekly, or during business hours.

Action

Get gradebook history days

Retrieves a chronological list of dates with grading activity and the active graders for a specified course.

Why this helps

Grading activity can be hard to follow when its history is tucked away in course tools.

  • See dates with grading activity in a recurring review.
  • Include the active graders returned by Canvas.
  • Reduce manual checking of gradebook history.

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 gradebook history days for the supplied course and summarize the returned dates and active graders.
  • 4Pick the recurring schedule trigger and choose where run reports should go.
  • 5Test with one real course and confirm the history data is available.

Questions about this workflow

Does this show every submission's grade?

No. This action retrieves dates with grading activity and active graders for the specified course.

Can it flag missed grading targets?

Only when you provide the target dates or baseline to compare against.

When this happens · Trigger

Do this · Action

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.

TriggerScheduled

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.

ActionInstant

Webhook trigger

Notis starts this workflow when an external tool or custom backend sends an HTTP request.

TriggerInstant

Create appointment group

Creates a new appointment group in canvas for schedulable time slots within specified course or group contexts.

ActionInstant

Create an assignment

Creates a new assignment within a specified course in canvas lms.

ActionInstant

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.

ActionInstant

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.

ActionInstant

Create communication channel

Creates a new communication channel (e.g., email, sms, push) for an existing canvas user to receive notifications.

ActionInstant

Create content share

Shares a canvas content item to specified users, if the sender has necessary permissions and receiver ids are valid.

ActionInstant

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.

ActionInstant

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When this happens · Trigger

Do this · Action

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