Mark a grading milestone with a Discord role
When Canvas reports new grading activity, update a designated Discord member's role to reflect the milestone your team defined.
Trigger
Canvas Assignment Graded
Polls Canvas for newly graded submissions for a specific assignment.
Action
Assign role to guild member
Assigns a role to a guild member, provided the bot has 'manage roles' permission in the guild and the role to be assigned is hierarchically lower than the bot's highest role.
Why this helps
A grading milestone can require a coordination status update that otherwise depends on someone remembering to make it.
- Reflect a defined milestone in Discord
- Reduce manual status updates
- Keep a role based signal current
Setup
Build it in a few focused steps.
- 1Connect Canvas and Discordbot once in the Notis portal.
- 2Create an automation in Automations, New Automation, and name it for the grading milestone.
- 3Describe the outcome in one instruction, specifying the guild member and existing role to assign when new grades appear.
- 4Pick Canvas Assignment Graded as the trigger and choose where run reports go.
- 5Test with one real graded submission and confirm role hierarchy and permissions.
Questions about this workflow
Can this create the role too?
No. This action assigns an existing role to a guild member. Create the role separately if it does not already exist.
What Discord permissions are required?
The bot needs manage roles, and the role must be hierarchically lower than the bot's highest role.
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Supported Triggers and Actions
Notis builds workflows that link Canvas to Discordbot. A trigger fires from one place; an action lands in another.
Canvas triggers
Discordbot actions
Recurring trigger
Notis starts this workflow on a schedule, such as daily, weekly, or during business hours.
Add recipient to group channel
Adds a user to a discord group direct message (dm) channel.
Webhook trigger
Notis starts this workflow when an external tool or custom backend sends an HTTP request.
Update guild member information
Adds a user (who is not already a member) to a guild using their `access token` (which must have `guilds.join` scope), optionally setting nickname, roles, mute/deaf status, or flags.
Canvas Assignment Graded
Polls Canvas for newly graded submissions for a specific assignment.
Assign role to guild member
Assigns a role to a guild member, provided the bot has 'manage roles' permission in the guild and the role to be assigned is hierarchically lower than the bot's highest role.
New Canvas Assignment Submission
Polls Canvas for new submissions to a specific assignment.
Add reaction to message
Adds an emoji reaction from the authenticated user/bot to a specific message in a discord channel; does not return information about existing reactions.
New Canvas Discussion Message
Polls Canvas discussion topics for new messages.
Add or update thread member
Adds a user to a specific, unarchived thread; the user must have access to the thread's parent channel, and for private threads, the bot must already be a member.
New Canvas Discussion Topic
Polls a Canvas course for new discussion topics.
Modify guild ban settings
Permanently bans a user from a discord guild, optionally deleting their recent messages (specify deletion period in seconds or days, not both).
New Course Created for User
Polls Canvas for newly created courses for a specific user.
Bulk ban users in guild with message deletion option
Bans up to 200 users from a discord guild, optionally deleting their recent messages; the bot must have 'ban members' permission in the guild, and this action is irreversible.
New Canvas File Upload
Polls a Canvas course for new file uploads.
Bulk delete messages in channel
Atomically bulk deletes messages in a discord channel for moderation or maintenance; deletion may not be instantaneous and messages are unrecoverable.
Connect any two apps with Notis in the middle.
Canvas and Discordbot, or any other combination from 1,000+ integrations.
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