Turn course outlines in email into Canvas modules
Get a course outline out of the inbox and into Canvas as an organized module learners can navigate.
Trigger
New Email Received
Trigger for new emails in an AgentMail inbox
Action
Create Module
Creates a new organizational module within a specified canvas lms course, with options for availability, sequencing, and prerequisites.
Why this helps
Course outlines in email require manual rebuilding before learners can use them in Canvas.
- Reduce manual setup from course outline emails
- Give course content a navigable structure
- Move course planning into Canvas sooner
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.
- 3Tell Notis how to identify a course outline and create an appropriate Canvas module from the available details.
- 4Choose New Email Received as the trigger and decide where run reports should go.
- 5Test with one real outline email and verify the resulting module.
Questions about this workflow
Does this add all the module's content items too?
This workflow creates a module. Describe the module details Notis should use; additional content placement is outside this action.
What if the outline does not identify a course?
Specify how Notis should handle missing course context, such as surfacing the missing detail in a run report.
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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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