Create Canvas extra credit assignments from email requests
Move a clear extra credit request into Canvas so optional course work is easier to set up and track.
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
Extra credit ideas arrive by email and can be delayed while assignment details are entered manually.
- Speed up setup for optional assignments
- Keep extra credit work in the course
- Reduce repeated data entry from email
Setup
Build it in a few focused steps.
- 1Connect Agent mail and Canvas once in the Notis portal.
- 2Create an automation via Automations, New Automation.
- 3In one instruction, explain how to recognize an extra credit request and which available details to include in the Canvas assignment.
- 4Choose New Email Received as the trigger and choose where run reports should go.
- 5Test with one real extra credit request and review the assignment.
Questions about this workflow
Can it infer grading and due date details?
Tell Notis what to do when these details are missing. The instruction should not assume information that is not provided.
Will this work for requests that are still just ideas?
Set a clear threshold in your instruction so only sufficiently detailed requests create an assignment.
When this happens · Trigger
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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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