Move emailed course resources to the right Canvas users
When an email brings a resource your learners need, let Notis prepare a Canvas content share with the right context.
Trigger
New Email Received
Trigger for new emails in an AgentMail inbox
Action
Create content share
Shares a canvas content item to specified users, if the sender has necessary permissions and receiver ids are valid.
Why this helps
Resource links and files arrive in email, then require manual sorting and re-sharing through Canvas.
- Reduce repeated downloading and sharing
- Keep learning resources close to Canvas users
- Spend less time triaging resource emails
Setup
Build it in a few focused steps.
- 1Connect Agent mail and Canvas once in the Notis portal.
- 2Create a new automation from Automations, New Automation.
- 3Tell Notis to recognize relevant course resources in incoming email and share the appropriate content with the intended Canvas users.
- 4Choose New Email Received as the trigger and choose a run report destination.
- 5Test with one real resource email and verify the share.
Questions about this workflow
Can this share every attachment automatically?
Use the instruction to specify which resources qualify and who should receive them. The Canvas share action requires valid receiver ids and appropriate sender permissions.
What if the email only mentions a resource but does not include it?
Tell Notis how to handle messages without a shareable item, such as skipping them or surfacing the missing detail in its 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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