Weekly Knowledge Gap Finder
Every Monday at 8 AM, Notis shows you the top 15 unanswered questions in your course subjects. Data-driven curriculum planning, zero research time.
Trigger
Recurring schedule
Notis starts this workflow on a schedule, such as daily, weekly, or during business hours.
Action
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.
Why this helps
Training gaps only surface when learners get stuck. By then they're frustrated and your reputation took a hit. Proactive gap-spotting is tedious manual research.
- Identifies gaps before learners hit them, preventing frustration and dropout
- Turns community wisdom into curriculum improvements automatically
- Weekly batching means one planning session instead of scattered research
- Prioritize course updates based on real question volume, not guesses
Setup
Build it in a few focused steps.
- 1Connect both integrations to Notis.
- 2Ask Notis: 'Every Monday at 8 AM, search Stack exchange for unanswered questions about [your course topics] posted in the last 30 days.'
- 3Set trigger to weekly cron (Monday morning).
- 4Send results to your curriculum Slack channel or email.
- 5Review results weekly and update courses based on what's unanswered.
Questions about this workflow
What counts as 'unanswered'?
Questions with zero accepted answers. You can also ask Notis to show questions with low scores to catch harder topics.
How far back should it search?
One month by default (stays current). For trend analysis, ask Notis to search 3-6 months back.
Can I filter by difficulty?
Yes. Tell Notis to focus on beginner, intermediate, or advanced questions based on your course level.
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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