Turn course feedback emails into Canvas discussion entries
Give useful feedback a place to be discussed. Let Notis shape relevant emails into focused Canvas discussion entries.
Trigger
New Email Received
Trigger for new emails in an AgentMail inbox
Action
Create discussion entry
Tool to create a new entry in a canvas discussion topic. use when posting a message with optional attachments to a discussion topic.
Why this helps
Useful course feedback often stays private in email instead of becoming a shared conversation learners can build on.
- Surface relevant feedback in the course space
- Give learners a shared place to respond
- Reduce manual rewriting of email insights
Setup
Build it in a few focused steps.
- 1Connect Agent mail and Canvas once in the Notis portal.
- 2Create an automation in Automations, New Automation, and name it for the feedback workflow.
- 3In one instruction, tell Notis which emails contain shareable course feedback and how to turn each into a discussion entry.
- 4Choose New Email Received as the trigger and set the report destination.
- 5Test with one real feedback email and review the resulting entry.
Questions about this workflow
Can Notis decide which feedback is suitable to share?
Describe your criteria in the instruction, including any content that should stay private or be excluded.
What discussion topic does the entry use?
Your instruction should identify the existing Canvas discussion topic to use or describe how Notis should find the appropriate topic from available context.
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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