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Check Cats Portals After a Canvas Grade

A completed grade can trigger a quick check of your connected Cats portals, so you know the cat feature environment is ready for the next step.

Trigger

Canvas Assignment Graded

Polls Canvas for newly graded submissions for a specific assignment.

Action

Get Portals

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

Why this helps

Grading updates can get buried while you manually check whether connected cat tools are available.

  • Reduce manual portal checks after grading
  • Keep a clear run report for each graded submission
  • Spot missing or unavailable cat portals quickly

Setup

Build it in a few focused steps.

  • 1Connect Canvas and Cats once in the Notis portal.
  • 2Create an automation and tell Notis to retrieve Cats portal metadata after a Canvas grading event, then summarize the result.
  • 3Pick Canvas Assignment Graded as the trigger.
  • 4Choose where Notis should send run reports.
  • 5Test with one real graded submission.

Questions about this workflow

Does this change the Canvas grade?

No. It only reacts to the grading event and retrieves Cats portal metadata.

What does the Cats action return?

The Get Portals action lists portal metadata after authentication, with pagination when needed.

When this happens · Trigger

Do this · Action

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

Connect any two apps with Notis in the middle.

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

When this happens · Trigger

Do this · Action

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