Course Reference Freshness Tracking
First of month: Notis checks all Stack exchange posts you link in courses. Shows you what changed so you update content proactively.
Trigger
Recurring schedule
Notis starts this workflow on a schedule, such as daily, weekly, or during business hours.
Action
Get Revisions By IDs
Tool to retrieve revisions for specific posts by their ids. use when you need to examine the edit history of posts by providing semicolon-delimited ids.
Why this helps
Stack exchange answers evolve but you don't know it. Your course links to outdated advice. Learners follow old techniques and blame your teaching.
- Monthly audit shows what's changed in referenced posts before learners hit outdated info
- Prevents the 'your course taught me wrong' situation by catching changes early
- Automates tedious manual link-checking into one monthly notification
- Keeps your curriculum aligned with community best practices automatically
Setup
Build it in a few focused steps.
- 1Connect both integrations to Notis.
- 2Tell Notis: 'On the 20th of each month, check the revision history of these Stack exchange post IDs: [your references] and flag what changed.'
- 3Set trigger to monthly cron (20th).
- 4Route results to your curriculum email or Slack.
- 5Review changes and update course content as needed.
Questions about this workflow
How do I gather my post IDs?
Extract them from your course links. Each URL contains the ID.
Should I check every revision?
Notis can filter for major changes only (not formatting/typos).
What if the community changed an answer I disagree with?
Notis surfaces the change. You decide if your course needs updating.
When this happens · Trigger
Do this · Action
Supported Triggers and Actions
Notis builds workflows that link Coassemble to Stack exchange. A trigger fires from one place; an action lands in another.
Coassemble triggers
Stack exchange actions
Recurring trigger
Notis starts this workflow on a schedule, such as daily, weekly, or during business hours.
Get Collective Questions
Tool to retrieve questions associated with the specified collective. use when you have a collective id and need its questions for a site.
Webhook trigger
Notis starts this workflow when an external tool or custom backend sends an HTTP request.
Get Collectives
Tool to retrieve all collectives on a stack exchange site in alphabetical order. use when you need to list collectives for display or filtering.
Get Collective Tags
Tool to retrieve tags associated with specified collectives. use when you need collective tags for display or analysis after confirming which collectives to query.
Get Comment Flag Options
Tool to fetch valid flag options for a given comment. use when you need to know which flags a user can raise before submitting. requires authenticated access.
Get Comments
Tool to retrieve comments from a specified stack exchange site. use when you need to list comments with optional filters and sorting.
Get Revisions By IDs
Tool to retrieve revisions for specific posts by their ids. use when you need to examine the edit history of posts by providing semicolon-delimited ids.
Search Questions
Tool to search the site for questions meeting certain criteria. use after defining tags or keywords to locate relevant questions. at least one of 'tagged' or 'intitle' must be set.
Get Sites
Tool to retrieve all stack exchange sites and their api site parameter values. use when you need to discover available sites for api calls.
Connect any two apps with Notis in the middle.
Coassemble and Stack exchange, or any other combination from 1,000+ integrations.
When this happens · Trigger
Do this · Action
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