Give graded commodity case studies a current quote
Bring the market price into a case study follow-up when the assignment focuses on a named commodity.
Trigger
Canvas Assignment Graded
Polls Canvas for newly graded submissions for a specific assignment.
Action
Commodity Price
Tool to get real-time price for a commodity. use when you need the current market price by specifying the commodity name. example: "what is the current price of gold?"
Why this helps
Case study discussions can start from an old price when the instructor has not refreshed the reference.
- Retrieve a current price for the named commodity
- Prepare a more timely case follow-up
- Cut manual market searches
Setup
Build it in a few focused steps.
- 1Connect Canvas and Api ninjas once in the Notis portal.
- 2Create an automation using Automations, New Automation, or ask Notis to create it.
- 3In one instruction, say to identify the commodity in the graded case and retrieve its current market price.
- 4Pick Canvas Assignment Graded and select where run reports go.
- 5Test on one graded case that names a commodity.
Questions about this workflow
Can it find the commodity from a broad case description?
The commodity name needs to be clear in the assignment context. Tell Notis what to do when the description is ambiguous.
Is the retrieved quote real time?
The listed Commodity Price action retrieves a real-time price.
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