Keep Canvas grading feedback in one Drive digest
When grades arrive, collect the score, feedback, and any next steps in a document you can review later.
Trigger
Canvas Assignment Graded
Polls Canvas for newly graded submissions for a specific assignment.
Action
Create a File from Text
Creates a new file in google drive from provided text content (up to 10mb), supporting various formats including automatic conversion to google workspace types.
Why this helps
Grading details are easy to lose between Canvas and the work that needs to happen next.
- Review new grades and feedback from one document.
- Spot follow-up work without reopening each submission.
- Keep a dated record of grading activity.
Setup
Build it in a few focused steps.
- 1Connect Canvas and Google Drive once in the Notis portal.
- 2Create an automation named Graded Submission Feedback Digest.
- 3Tell Notis to summarize each newly graded submission with its score, feedback, and follow-up items in a dated Google Drive document.
- 4Pick Canvas Assignment Graded as the trigger and choose where run reports should go.
- 5Test with one real graded submission.
Questions about this workflow
What starts this workflow?
Canvas Assignment Graded, which polls for newly graded submissions for the specific assignment you select.
What goes into the Drive document?
Notis can summarize the returned grade and feedback, and call out follow-up items present in that information.
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Supported Triggers and Actions
Notis builds workflows that link Canvas to Google Drive. A trigger fires from one place; an action lands in another.
Canvas triggers
Google Drive actions
Recurring trigger
Notis starts this workflow on a schedule, such as daily, weekly, or during business hours.
Add file sharing preference
Modifies sharing permissions for an existing google drive file, granting a specified role to a user, group, domain, or 'anyone'.
Webhook trigger
Notis starts this workflow when an external tool or custom backend sends an HTTP request.
Copy file
Duplicates an existing file in google drive, identified by its `file id`.
Canvas Assignment Graded
Polls Canvas for newly graded submissions for a specific assignment.
Create Comment
Tool to create a comment on a file. use when you need to add a new comment to a specific file in google drive.
New Canvas Assignment Submission
Polls Canvas for new submissions to a specific assignment.
Create Shared Drive
Tool to create a new shared drive. use when you need to programmatically create a new shared drive for collaboration or storage.
New Canvas Discussion Message
Polls Canvas discussion topics for new messages.
Create File or Folder
Creates a new file or folder with metadata. use to create empty files or folders, or files with content by providing it in the request body (though this action primarily focuses on metadata creation).
New Canvas Discussion Topic
Polls a Canvas course for new discussion topics.
Create a File from Text
Creates a new file in google drive from provided text content (up to 10mb), supporting various formats including automatic conversion to google workspace types.
New Course Created for User
Polls Canvas for newly created courses for a specific user.
Create a folder
Creates a new folder in google drive, optionally within a parent folder specified by its id or name; if a parent name is provided but not found, the action will fail.
New Canvas File Upload
Polls a Canvas course for new file uploads.
Create Reply
Tool to create a reply to a comment in google drive. use when you need to respond to an existing comment on a file.
Connect any two apps with Notis in the middle.
Canvas and Google Drive, or any other combination from 1,000+ integrations.
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