Keep course guidance available as a Canvas page
Turn the process notes you provide into a course page on a recurring schedule when guidance needs a refreshed version.
Trigger
Recurring schedule
Notis starts this workflow on a schedule, such as daily, weekly, or during business hours.
Action
Create a page for a course
Creates a wiki page in a Canvas course.
Why this helps
Guidance can be hard to find when it is left in working notes or documents outside the course.
- Make supplied guidance accessible from the course.
- Reduce repeated manual page drafting.
- Keep course instructions in a familiar place.
Setup
Build it in a few focused steps.
- 1Connect Canvas once in the Notis portal.
- 2Create an automation in Automations, New Automation, and name it.
- 3Tell Notis to create a Canvas page from the process notes available to it and specify the course.
- 4Choose the recurring schedule trigger and select where run reports should go.
- 5Test with one real set of notes and review the page content and publication settings.
Questions about this workflow
Where do the notes come from?
Provide the notes to Notis or make them available in the prompt context. This scheduled trigger does not itself retrieve Affinda documents.
Can it update an existing page?
The listed Canvas action creates a page. This workflow does not claim to update an existing page.
When this happens · Trigger
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Supported Triggers and Actions
Notis builds workflows that link Affinda to Canvas. A trigger fires from one place; an action lands in another.
Affinda 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 notification for the Canvas account.
Webhook trigger
Notis starts this workflow when an external tool or custom backend sends an HTTP request.
Abort Quiz Report Generation
Cancels quiz report generation or removes a previously generated report.
Create appointment group
Creates an appointment group with schedulable time slots.
Add conversation message
Adds a follow-up message to an existing conversation.
Create an assignment
Creates an assignment in a Canvas course.
Add course to favorites
Adds a course to the current user’s favorites; no change occurs if it is already saved.
Create assignment override
Creates an assignment override to adjust dates for selected students, a group, or a course section.
Add group to favorites
Adds a group to the current user’s favorites; no change occurs if it is already saved.
Connect any two apps with Notis in the middle.
Affinda and Canvas, or any other combination from 1,000+ integrations.
When this happens · Trigger
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