Close the month with a review of archived goals
Before the next course month starts, take a moment to review the goals that have moved into your archive.
Trigger
Recurring schedule
Notis starts this workflow on a schedule, such as daily, weekly, or during business hours.
Action
Get Archived Goals
Tool to retrieve archived goals for a specified user. use when you need to inspect a user's past archived goals.
Why this helps
Month transitions can blur completed commitments and unfinished intentions, making it harder to reset thoughtfully.
- Retrieve archived goal details at a recurring month-end moment.
- Support reflection as course plans roll into a new month.
- Keep past commitments available during a reset.
Setup
Build it in a few focused steps.
- 1Connect Beeminder once in the Notis portal.
- 2Create an automation by telling Notis to retrieve archived goals for your Canvas month-end reset.
- 3Pick a Notis schedule trigger and set it for month end.
- 4Choose where Notis should send run reports, then test with one real run.
Questions about this workflow
Does this combine archived goals with Canvas course data?
No. The action retrieves archived Beeminder goals; Canvas data is not returned by the allowed action.
Can it identify why goals were archived?
Only details returned by Beeminder are available; reasons not provided by the service must be supplied separately.
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Supported Triggers and Actions
Notis builds workflows that link Canvas to Beeminder. A trigger fires from one place; an action lands in another.
Canvas triggers
Beeminder actions
Recurring trigger
Notis starts this workflow on a schedule, such as daily, weekly, or during business hours.
Authenticate and Redirect User
Tool to authenticate a user and redirect them to a given url. use when sending a user into the beeminder web ui directly after oauth or token validation.
Webhook trigger
Notis starts this workflow when an external tool or custom backend sends an HTTP request.
Create Charge
Tool to create a new charge for a user. use when billing a user outside of goal pledges; supports dryrun mode.
Canvas Assignment Graded
Polls Canvas for newly graded submissions for a specific assignment.
Get all goals
Tool to retrieve all goals for a specified user. use when listing a user's active goals.
New Canvas Assignment Submission
Polls Canvas for new submissions to a specific assignment.
Get Archived Goals
Tool to retrieve archived goals for a specified user. use when you need to inspect a user's past archived goals.
New Canvas Discussion Message
Polls Canvas discussion topics for new messages.
Get Beeminder User Information
Tool to retrieve information about a specified beeminder user. use when you need to fetch details like timezone, goals, urgency, or deleted goals after authenticating successfully.
New Canvas Discussion Topic
Polls a Canvas course for new discussion topics.
New Course Created for User
Polls Canvas for newly created courses for a specific user.
New Canvas File Upload
Polls a Canvas course for new file uploads.
Connect any two apps with Notis in the middle.
Canvas and Beeminder, or any other combination from 1,000+ integrations.
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