Acknowledge assignment submissions without another inbox check
Give students a quick confirmation when their Canvas work arrives, right in the conversation they use.
Trigger
New Canvas Assignment Submission
Polls Canvas for new submissions to a specific assignment.
Action
Complete Conversation
Tool to send a message to a conversation and receive the bot’s reply. use after retrieving or initiating a conversation id.
Why this helps
Manual submission confirmations are easy to forget when a founder or instructor is juggling course and support channels.
- Confirm receipt promptly.
- Cut repetitive status messages.
- Give students a clear next step when one is known.
Setup
Build it in a few focused steps.
- 1Connect Canvas and Chatbotkit once in the Notis portal.
- 2Create an automation in Automations, New Automation, or tell Notis what outcome you want from any channel.
- 3In one instruction, ask Notis to acknowledge a new submission in the relevant Chatbotkit conversation without promising an unprovided review time.
- 4Pick New Canvas Assignment Submission as the trigger and choose where run reports go.
- 5Test with one real submission and confirm a matching conversation id is available.
Questions about this workflow
Will the message include a review deadline?
Only include a deadline if you provide one or it is present in the returned data. The trigger description does not guarantee a review schedule.
What if no matching conversation id is available?
The complete-conversation action needs a conversation id. Have the automation report the missing id rather than inventing or guessing one.
When this happens · Trigger
Do this · Action
Supported Triggers and Actions
Notis builds workflows that link Canvas to Chatbotkit. A trigger fires from one place; an action lands in another.
Canvas triggers
Chatbotkit actions
Recurring trigger
Notis starts this workflow on a schedule, such as daily, weekly, or during business hours.
Complete Conversation
Tool to send a message to a conversation and receive the bot’s reply. use after retrieving or initiating a conversation id.
Webhook trigger
Notis starts this workflow when an external tool or custom backend sends an HTTP request.
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New Canvas Assignment Submission
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Connect any two apps with Notis in the middle.
Canvas and Chatbotkit, or any other combination from 1,000+ integrations.
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