Turn meeting transcripts into Canvas assignments
Capture decisions once, then give learners a ready-to-use assignment in Canvas.
Trigger
Transcription Complete Trigger
Triggers when a transcription is complete. Polls Fireflies API for transcripts created or updated since the last poll time. Handles rate limiting gracefully.
Action
Create an assignment
Creates a new assignment within a specified course in canvas lms.
Why this helps
Important follow-up work gets buried in long meeting transcripts and requires manual rewriting.
- Reduce manual copywriting
- Keep assignment context tied to the meeting
- Make next steps visible in Canvas
Setup
Build it in a few focused steps.
- 1Connect Fireflies and Canvas once in the Notis portal.
- 2Create an automation and describe the assignment outcome in one instruction.
- 3Pick the Fireflies Transcription Complete trigger.
- 4Choose where run reports should go, then test with one real transcript.
Questions about this workflow
Can Notis set a due date automatically?
It can propose a due date from the transcript or your instruction, but include a rule for dates you want applied.
What happens if a transcript has no assignment?
Tell Notis to skip creation and report that no actionable assignment was found.
When this happens · Trigger
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Supported Triggers and Actions
Notis builds workflows that link Fireflies to Canvas. A trigger fires from one place; an action lands in another.
Fireflies triggers
Canvas actions
Recurring trigger
Notis starts this workflow on a schedule, such as daily, weekly, or during business hours.
Create account notification
Creates a global notification within a canvas account, ensuring `end at` is after `start at` and any specified `notification roles` are valid.
Webhook trigger
Notis starts this workflow when an external tool or custom backend sends an HTTP request.
Create appointment group
Creates a new appointment group in canvas for schedulable time slots within specified course or group contexts.
Transcription Complete Trigger
Triggers when a transcription is complete. Polls Fireflies API for transcripts created or updated since the last poll time. Handles rate limiting gracefully.
Create an assignment
Creates a new assignment within a specified course in canvas lms.
Create assignment override
Creates an assignment override to adjust due/unlock/lock dates for an assignment in a course, targeting specific students (requires `title`), a group, or a course section; at least one target (`student ids`, `group id`, or `course section id`) is required.
Create Calendar Event
Creates a calendar event with options for recurrence (finite `rrule` series only), section-specific timings, and blackout dates within a specified context.
Create communication channel
Creates a new communication channel (e.g., email, sms, push) for an existing canvas user to receive notifications.
Create content share
Shares a canvas content item to specified users, if the sender has necessary permissions and receiver ids are valid.
Create conversation
Use to send messages in canvas by creating a new conversation or adding to an existing one; an existing conversation with the same recipients (and matching scope/filter, if specified) may be reused unless `force new` is true.
Connect any two apps with Notis in the middle.
Fireflies and Canvas, or any other combination from 1,000+ integrations.
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