Connect Canvas to Cats

When something happens in Canvas, Notis takes the next step in Cats. Describe what you want in plain English, or start from one of the examples below.

When this happens · Trigger

Do this · Action

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Examples

Ways Notis can move work from Canvas to Cats

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Check Cat Portals After Canvas Grading

When Canvas grades a submission, retrieve Cats portal metadata and send a concise availability summary.

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Inventory Cat Portals When Work Is Submitted

When Canvas receives a new assignment submission, list Cats portals and summarize the available portal context.

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Add Cat Portal Context to New Discussion Messages

When a Canvas discussion message appears, retrieve Cats portal metadata and include a short context note in the report.

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Check Cat Portal Readiness for New Topics

When Canvas creates a discussion topic, list Cats portals and report the available metadata for a quick readiness check.

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Create a Cat Portal Baseline for New Courses

When Canvas creates a course for a user, retrieve Cats portal metadata and save a baseline report for the course launch.

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Audit Cat Portals After Canvas File Uploads

When Canvas detects a new file upload, list Cats portals and send a focused metadata audit report.

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Check Cat Portals from a Canvas Webhook

Use a webhook carrying Canvas context to retrieve Cats portal metadata and return a concise operational report.

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Review Cat Portals on a Canvas Operations Schedule

On a recurring schedule, retrieve Cats portal metadata and report a lightweight operational review for Canvas work.

Supported Triggers and Actions

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

Canvas triggers

Cats actions

Recurring trigger

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

TriggerScheduled

Get Portals

Tool to list all portals. use when you need to browse portal metadata with pagination after authentication.

ActionInstant

Webhook trigger

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

TriggerInstant

Canvas Assignment Graded

Polls Canvas for newly graded submissions for a specific assignment.

TriggerPolling

New Canvas Assignment Submission

Polls Canvas for new submissions to a specific assignment.

TriggerPolling

New Canvas Discussion Message

Polls Canvas discussion topics for new messages.

TriggerPolling

New Canvas Discussion Topic

Polls a Canvas course for new discussion topics.

TriggerPolling

New Course Created for User

Polls Canvas for newly created courses for a specific user.

TriggerPolling

New Canvas File Upload

Polls a Canvas course for new file uploads.

TriggerPolling

Trigger Types

Four ways to start an automation.

A trigger is the event that kicks a workflow off. Notis supports four kinds: an event in a connected app, an inbound webhook, a recurring schedule, and soon, your own database.

Integration triggers

Fire when something happens inside a connected app. New Notion page, Stripe charge, Linear issue: any of 1,000+ apps can start a workflow.

New Notion pageStripe chargeCalendar event

Webhook triggers

A unique URL per workflow. Anything that can send an HTTP POST can start an automation, including no-code tools that speak webhooks.

Any HTTP POSTCustom backendIoT event

Works with

ZapierPipedream

Most used

Recurring triggers

Cron-style schedules run a workflow on the clock. Daily standups, hourly syncs, business-hours-only digests: the workhorse of Notis.

Daily · 8:00HourlyWeekdays only

Coming soon

Database triggers

Watch a row, query, or threshold in your own database and fire the moment the data changes. Row inserted, value crosses a limit, query starts matching.

Row insertedValue > limitQuery match

Why AI automation

Classic automation breaks. AI adapts.

Same triggers and actions, smarter middle. AI handles the fuzziness that breaks traditional Zapier-style workflows the moment a field gets renamed.

Classic automationAI automation

Cost

$ · pay per run

$$ · AI models per run

Reliability

Breaks on schema change

Adapts to format changes

Setup

Click 8 dropdowns

Describe it in English

Handles fuzzy

Hard-coded fields only

Reads intent, summarises

Human in loop

Bolted on

Built in · approval inbox

Maintenance

You own every break

Self-heals · we own it

Ease of use

Describe it. Notis builds it.

Skip the visual builder. Tell Notis what you want, in plain English. It writes the workflow, you review and deploy.

You · in the Notis Builder

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“When a row gets added to the Q4 OKRs Notion database and the status is Blocked, send a Telegram message to the owner with a summary of what's blocking, and ping me if there's no reply within 24 hours.”

Notis built this automation:

TriggerRow added to "Q4 OKRs"

Condition✦Status = "Blocked"

AI step✦Summarise the blocker in plain English

ActionDM the row owner with summary

Timeout✦No reply in 24h → ping you

Observability

Watch every run.

Notis Desktop is Mission Control for your AI automations. See every run, replay, edit, or rewind. Set approval gates so Notis pauses before destructive actions.