Collect a quick course feedback pulse in Telegram
Use a lightweight recurring poll to ask what is working or where learners need more help, with a question you choose.
Trigger
Recurring schedule
Notis starts this workflow on a schedule, such as daily, weekly, or during business hours.
Action
Send Poll
Send a native poll to a telegram chat using the bot api.
Why this helps
Useful feedback often arrives too late when asking for it takes too much effort.
- Ask a recurring, focused course feedback question.
- Use a native Telegram poll for quick responses.
- Keep poll wording and options under your control.
Setup
Build it in a few focused steps.
- 1Connect Blackboard and Telegram once in the Notis portal.
- 2Create an automation in Automations, New Automation, and name it.
- 3In one instruction, ask Notis to publish the course feedback question and options you provide as a Telegram poll.
- 4Choose notis_cron as the trigger, set the schedule, and select where run reports should go.
- 5Test with one real feedback question and its options.
Questions about this workflow
Will poll responses be written back to Blackboard?
No Blackboard action is listed. This workflow creates a Telegram poll and does not claim to update Blackboard.
Does Notis create the feedback question?
Provide the question and answer options you want Notis to use, then state any wording guidance in the instruction.
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Supported Triggers and Actions
Notis builds workflows that link Blackboard to Telegram. A trigger fires from one place; an action lands in another.
Blackboard triggers
Telegram actions
Recurring trigger
Notis starts this workflow on a schedule, such as daily, weekly, or during business hours.
Answer Callback Query
Use this method to send answers to callback queries sent from inline keyboards. the answer will be displayed to the user as a notification at the top of the chat screen or as an alert.
Webhook trigger
Notis starts this workflow when an external tool or custom backend sends an HTTP request.
Delete Message
Delete a message, including service messages, with certain limitations.
Edit Message
Edit text messages sent by the bot.
Export Chat Invite Link
Generate a new primary invite link for a chat; any previously generated primary link is revoked. the bot must be an administrator in the chat for this to work and must have the appropriate administrator rights.
Forward Message
Forward messages of any kind. service messages can't be forwarded.
Get Chat Info
Get up to date information about the chat (current name of the user for one-on-one conversations, current username of a user, group or channel, etc.).
Get Chat Administrators
Get a list of administrators in a chat. on success, returns an array of chatmember objects that contains information about all chat administrators except other bots.
Get Chat History
Get chat history messages. note: this uses the getupdates method with specific parameters to retrieve historical messages.
Connect any two apps with Notis in the middle.
Blackboard and Telegram, or any other combination from 1,000+ integrations.
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