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Turn graded assignments into clearer support escalation

When a Canvas assignment is graded, ask Notis to create an escalation policy that helps your team route related course support incidents.

Trigger

Canvas Assignment Graded

Polls Canvas for newly graded submissions for a specific assignment.

Action

Create Escalation Policy

Tool to create a new escalation policy. use when defining how incidents should escalate across team members.

Why this helps

Course issues can arrive while you are focused on grading, leaving no clear path for escalating urgent problems.

  • Create a consistent escalation path from a grading milestone.
  • Reduce the effort of remembering who handles course-related incidents.
  • Keep setup instructions close to the event that prompted them.

Setup

Build it in a few focused steps.

  • 1Connect Canvas and Better Stack once in Notis.
  • 2Create an automation in chat or in Automations, New Automation, with a name and prompt.
  • 3Describe how a graded assignment should inform a new escalation policy.
  • 4Choose Canvas Assignment Graded as the trigger, then pick where run reports go.
  • 5Test with one real graded assignment and review the report.

Questions about this workflow

Does this automatically assign a person from the Canvas grade?

The action creates an escalation policy. Tell Notis the policy criteria and ownership details in your instruction; the event description does not guarantee those details are available.

Can I choose which assignments start it?

The trigger polls for newly graded submissions for a specific assignment. You select the trigger during setup.

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Supported Triggers and Actions

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

Canvas triggers

Better stack actions

Recurring trigger

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

TriggerScheduled

Create Escalation Policy

Tool to create a new escalation policy. use when defining how incidents should escalate across team members.

ActionInstant

Webhook trigger

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

TriggerInstant

Create Heartbeat Group

Tool to create a new heartbeat group. use when you need to organize related heartbeat checks under a single, logical group. example prompt: "create a new heartbeat group named 'backend services'."

ActionInstant

Canvas Assignment Graded

Polls Canvas for newly graded submissions for a specific assignment.

TriggerPolling

Create Outgoing Webhook Integration

Tool to create a new outgoing webhook integration. use when you need to register an endpoint to receive event notifications from better stack.

ActionInstant

New Canvas Assignment Submission

Polls Canvas for new submissions to a specific assignment.

TriggerPolling

Create Source Group

Tool to create a new source group. use when you have finalized the group name (and optional sort index) and need to organize related log sources under that group.

ActionInstant

New Canvas Discussion Message

Polls Canvas discussion topics for new messages.

TriggerPolling

Delete Escalation Policy

Tool to delete an escalation policy by id. use when you need to permanently remove an existing escalation policy after confirming its id.

ActionInstant

New Canvas Discussion Topic

Polls a Canvas course for new discussion topics.

TriggerPolling

Delete Source Group

Tool to delete a source group by id. use when you need to permanently remove an existing source group after confirming it is no longer needed.

ActionInstant

New Course Created for User

Polls Canvas for newly created courses for a specific user.

TriggerPolling

Get Heartbeat

Tool to get a single heartbeat by id. use when you need to fetch details of a specific heartbeat.

ActionInstant

New Canvas File Upload

Polls a Canvas course for new file uploads.

TriggerPolling

Get Heartbeat Availability

Tool to retrieve availability summary for a specific heartbeat. use when you need availability metrics for a heartbeat within an optional date range.

ActionInstant

Connect any two apps with Notis in the middle.

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

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