Turn emailed assignment requests into Canvas assignments
Move a well-defined assignment request from email into Canvas with less copying and fewer setup steps.
Trigger
New Email Received
Trigger for new emails in an AgentMail inbox
Action
Create an assignment
Creates a new assignment within a specified course in canvas lms.
Why this helps
Assignment requests arrive in email, then wait while someone manually transfers instructions into Canvas.
- Reduce copying assignment details from email
- Keep assignment setup moving
- Turn clear requests into actionable course work
Setup
Build it in a few focused steps.
- 1Connect Agent mail and Canvas once in the Notis portal.
- 2Open Automations, New Automation, and create a named automation.
- 3In one instruction, tell Notis what makes an assignment request actionable and how to create the Canvas assignment from it.
- 4Pick New Email Received as the trigger and choose where run reports should go.
- 5Test with one real assignment request and check the created assignment.
Questions about this workflow
What if the email lacks a due date or other assignment detail?
Tell Notis how to handle incomplete requests, such as asking for missing information through the run report rather than creating an assignment.
Does this create an assignment in any course automatically?
Your instruction should identify the course context. Creating an assignment requires a specified Canvas course.
When this happens · Trigger
Do this · Action
Supported Triggers and Actions
Notis builds workflows that link Agent mail to Canvas. A trigger fires from one place; an action lands in another.
Agent mail 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.
New Email Received
Trigger for new emails in an AgentMail inbox
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.
Agent mail and Canvas, or any other combination from 1,000+ integrations.
When this happens · Trigger
Do this · Action
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