Keep course guidance from email on a Canvas page
Let Notis turn useful course guidance into a Canvas page, so the information is easier to find when learners need it.
Trigger
New Email Received
Trigger for new emails in an AgentMail inbox
Action
Create a page for a course
Creates a new wiki page in a specified canvas course, with options for title, html body, editing permissions, publication, and designation as front page (which also requires publication).
Why this helps
Important course notes remain trapped in email threads and have to be rediscovered or rewritten later.
- Make durable guidance easier to find
- Reduce repeated explanations by email
- Save time rewriting course notes
Setup
Build it in a few focused steps.
- 1Connect Agent mail and Canvas once in the Notis portal.
- 2Create an automation through Automations, New Automation.
- 3Tell Notis which emails contain lasting course guidance and how to turn them into a concise Canvas page.
- 4Choose New Email Received as the trigger and select a destination for run reports.
- 5Test with one real guidance email and review the page content.
Questions about this workflow
Should I use this for every useful email?
Use your instruction to limit the workflow to durable information that belongs in the course, such as procedures or key guidance.
Can a new page be published automatically?
The page action supports publication settings. Tell Notis the desired behavior, and confirm the account has the permissions needed.
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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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