Give emailed course materials a Canvas folder
When a new collection of course materials arrives by email, let Notis create a Canvas folder to organize the work.
Trigger
New Email Received
Trigger for new emails in an AgentMail inbox
Action
Create Folder
Creates a new folder in canvas within a specified context (e.g., course, user) and optional parent folder; ensure the context and any parent folder (specified by id or path, not both) already exist.
Why this helps
Course materials arrive across email and get organized later, making it harder to keep course files tidy.
- Create an organizing structure as materials arrive
- Reduce delayed course file housekeeping
- Keep related resources grouped in Canvas
Setup
Build it in a few focused steps.
- 1Connect Agent mail and Canvas once in the Notis portal.
- 2Create a named automation in Automations, New Automation.
- 3Tell Notis how to recognize a new materials collection and create a folder in the intended existing Canvas context.
- 4Choose New Email Received as the trigger and set a report destination.
- 5Test with one real materials email and confirm the folder location.
Questions about this workflow
Can this create a Canvas context if one does not exist?
No. The folder action requires the context to exist. Specify the existing course or user context in your instruction.
Can Notis add email attachments to the folder?
This workflow creates a folder. Use the instruction to identify the folder purpose and location; file uploads are not part of this action.
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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.
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