Create a digest of new Canvas discussion messages
Make course discussion easier to scan with a Carbone digest triggered by new Canvas messages.
Trigger
New Canvas Discussion Message
Polls Canvas discussion topics for new messages.
Action
Generate Carbone Report
Tool to generate a carbone report from a template and json data. use when you need to render documents in various formats.
Why this helps
Following active discussions across course topics can take time and make useful questions or themes easy to miss.
- Collect newly detected messages into a templated digest.
- Make discussion review more consistent.
- Reduce the need to revisit topics just to catch up.
Setup
Build it in a few focused steps.
- 1Connect Canvas and Carbone once in the Notis portal.
- 2Create an automation in Automations, New Automation, or tell Notis from any channel.
- 3Ask Notis in one instruction to create a Carbone digest of newly detected discussion messages using the details Canvas returns.
- 4Pick the New Canvas Discussion Message trigger and choose where run reports should go.
- 5Test with one real discussion message.
Questions about this workflow
What does the trigger monitor?
The event polls Canvas discussion topics for new messages.
Can the digest identify themes?
You can ask Notis to summarize the returned messages, but it should not infer missing course context or history that Canvas has not returned.
Does this workflow post back to Canvas?
No. Its listed Carbone action generates a report; it does not post a discussion reply.
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