Find useful web context for new course discussions
Get a quick view of what the wider web says about each new course topic, without leaving your teaching workflow.
Trigger
New Canvas Discussion Topic
Polls a Canvas course for new discussion topics.
Action
SERP Search
Tool to perform serp (search engine results page) searches across different search engines. use when you need to retrieve search results, trending topics, or competitive analysis data.
Why this helps
New discussion topics can take time to contextualize, especially when you need current sources before joining the conversation.
- Find current search results tied to a new topic.
- Reduce manual searching before responding to a discussion.
- Spot useful sources and angles to bring into the course.
Setup
Build it in a few focused steps.
- 1Connect Canvas and Bright Data once in Notis.
- 2Create an automation and name it for course topic research.
- 3Tell Notis to search the web for current sources and useful angles based on each new discussion topic.
- 4Pick New Canvas Discussion Topic as the trigger and choose where run reports go.
- 5Test with one real discussion topic.
Questions about this workflow
What starts this automation?
A new discussion topic in a Canvas course starts it.
What does Bright Data do?
It runs a SERP search based on the topic details available from Canvas. Review results in the run report.
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