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Keep current course details close to your planning routine

A scheduled course detail lookup can keep key Canvas information visible in a planning summary without a manual course visit.

Trigger

Recurring schedule

Notis starts this workflow on a schedule, such as daily, weekly, or during business hours.

Action

Get a single course

Retrieves detailed information for a specific canvas course using its `course id`, which must be valid, and allows for including additional data fields in the response via the `include` parameter.

Why this helps

Course details needed for planning are scattered across Canvas and can go stale in personal notes or project checklists.

  • Refresh course details on a recurring schedule
  • Surface selected fields in a short summary
  • Reduce manual course lookups

Setup

Build it in a few focused steps.

  • 1Connect Asana and Canvas once in the Notis portal.
  • 2Create an automation in Automations, New Automation, or tell Notis what you want from any channel.
  • 3Name the Canvas course and describe in one instruction which details to include and how to pair them with Asana planning context you provide.
  • 4Pick a Notis schedule trigger and choose where run reports should go.
  • 5Test one real run and check the course information in the summary.

Questions about this workflow

Can the action include additional course data?

Yes. The action allows additional data fields through its include parameter. Specify the fields that matter in your instruction.

Can it choose the course from Asana automatically?

Only when the event or supplied instruction provides enough information to identify a valid Canvas course.

When this happens · Trigger

Do this · Action

Supported Triggers and Actions

Notis builds workflows that link Asana to Canvas. A trigger fires from one place; an action lands in another.

Asana triggers

Canvas actions

Recurring trigger

Notis starts this workflow on a schedule, such as daily, weekly, or during business hours.

TriggerScheduled

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.

ActionInstant

Webhook trigger

Notis starts this workflow when an external tool or custom backend sends an HTTP request.

TriggerInstant

Create appointment group

Creates a new appointment group in canvas for schedulable time slots within specified course or group contexts.

ActionInstant

Attachment Added to Task

Triggers when an attachment is added to a task.

TriggerInstant

Create an assignment

Creates a new assignment within a specified course in canvas lms.

ActionInstant

New Comment on Task

Triggers when a comment is added to a task in a project.

TriggerInstant

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.

ActionInstant

New Task Created

Triggers when a new task is created in a project.

TriggerInstant

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.

ActionInstant

Task Moved to Section

Triggers when a task is moved to a section in a project.

TriggerInstant

Create communication channel

Creates a new communication channel (e.g., email, sms, push) for an existing canvas user to receive notifications.

ActionInstant

Tag Added to Task

Triggers when a tag is added to a task. Note: Asana's event structure is inverted for tag events — the resource is the task and the parent is the tag. So parent.gid gives the tag GID.

TriggerInstant

Create content share

Shares a canvas content item to specified users, if the sender has necessary permissions and receiver ids are valid.

ActionInstant

Task Updated

Triggers when a task is updated in a project.

TriggerInstant

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.

ActionInstant

Connect any two apps with Notis in the middle.

Asana and Canvas, or any other combination from 1,000+ integrations.

When this happens · Trigger

Do this · Action

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