Give new courses a useful CMS sitemap brief
Orient a course team to relevant site destinations as soon as a course is created.
Trigger
New Course Created for User
Polls Canvas for newly created courses for a specific user.
Action
Get Sitemap Flat
Tool to retrieve the flat sitemap as a mapping of page paths to sitemap items. use when you need page routing logic after knowing locale and channel.
Why this helps
A new course can begin before its team knows which published site sections or pages may be useful references.
- Retrieves the flat sitemap for the locale and channel you specify.
- Provides a compact orientation report for the course team.
- Makes locale or channel gaps explicit.
Setup
Build it in a few focused steps.
- 1Connect Canvas and Agility CMS once in the Notis portal.
- 2Create an automation in Automations, New Automation, and give it a name and prompt.
- 3Ask Notis in one instruction to retrieve the sitemap for a named locale and channel and summarize destinations relevant to a newly created course.
- 4Pick the New Course Created for User trigger and choose where run reports go.
- 5Test with one real course and confirm the intended locale and channel are specified.
Questions about this workflow
Does the workflow create pages for the course?
No. The available action retrieves sitemap data and the workflow prepares a report.
What details are needed to retrieve the sitemap?
Specify the locale and channel in the prompt. If relevance depends on course subject, provide a clear way to identify or describe that subject.
When this happens · Trigger
Do this · Action
Supported Triggers and Actions
Notis builds workflows that link Canvas to Agility cms. A trigger fires from one place; an action lands in another.
Canvas triggers
Agility cms actions
Recurring trigger
Notis starts this workflow on a schedule, such as daily, weekly, or during business hours.
Get Authors
Tool to retrieve all authors from an agility cms instance. use when you need the full list of authors for display or processing.
Webhook trigger
Notis starts this workflow when an external tool or custom backend sends an HTTP request.
Get Categories
Tool to get all categories. use when you need to list every category in a given locale.
Canvas Assignment Graded
Polls Canvas for newly graded submissions for a specific assignment.
Get Content Item
Tool to fetch details of a content item by content id. use when you need item fields and metadata from agility cms.
New Canvas Assignment Submission
Polls Canvas for new submissions to a specific assignment.
Get Content List
Tool to retrieve a list of content items by reference name. use when you need to fetch and page through content list data with optional filtering, sorting, and link expansions.
New Canvas Discussion Message
Polls Canvas discussion topics for new messages.
Get Content Models
Tool to retrieve content models and page modules. use when you need schema definitions to dynamically build content structures.
New Canvas Discussion Topic
Polls a Canvas course for new discussion topics.
Get Logs
Tool to retrieve sync items (logs) from agility cms. use after initial full sync to fetch updates.
New Course Created for User
Polls Canvas for newly created courses for a specific user.
Get Page
Tool to retrieve details of a page, including metadata, content zones, and components. use after you know the page id to fetch.
New Canvas File Upload
Polls a Canvas course for new file uploads.
Get Page Modules
Tool to retrieve all page modules defined in the agility instance. use when you need only modular definitions without content models.
Connect any two apps with Notis in the middle.
Canvas and Agility cms, or any other combination from 1,000+ integrations.
When this happens · Trigger
Do this · Action
Save your first hour today.
7-day trial of any paid plan, with 20$ of usage included.
No card. Works with personal or business Agility cms.