Spot likely email typos on new submissions
Catch suspiciously malformed contact details when a new assignment submission arrives.
Trigger
New Canvas Assignment Submission
Polls Canvas for new submissions to a specific assignment.
Action
Verify Gibberish Email
Tool to verify if an email address is gibberish. Use when filtering out nonsensical or invalid-looking emails.
Why this helps
A typo in a student email can go unnoticed until an instructor needs to reach them.
- Screen addresses when a new submission arrives.
- Identify likely gibberish before relying on the address.
- Review the result in the run report.
Setup
Build it in a few focused steps.
- 1Connect Canvas and Clearout once in the Notis portal.
- 2Create an automation in Automations, New Automation, or tell Notis in plain language from any channel.
- 3Describe the outcome in one instruction: check each new submitter email for gibberish and report the result.
- 4Pick New Canvas Assignment Submission as the trigger and choose where run reports go.
- 5Test with one real submission that includes an email address.
Questions about this workflow
Does this confirm that an address can receive mail?
No. This action checks whether the address appears to be gibberish. Use the Instant Email Verifier action for an email validity check.
What happens if Canvas does not provide the submitter's email?
The run can report that the address was unavailable; Clearout cannot check an address it does not receive.
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