Turn assessment requests into Canvas quizzes
Move a well-specified quiz request into Canvas without rebuilding its details from an email thread.
Trigger
New Gmail Message Received Trigger
Triggers when a new message is received in Gmail.
Action
Create Quiz
Creates a new quiz with various settings in a specified existing canvas course; `assignment group id` applies only to graded quiz types.
Why this helps
Assessment requests often involve enough setup details that manual re-entry can lead to omissions.
- Reduce manual quiz setup from email
- Keep assessment requests moving
- Flag missing course or quiz settings
Setup
Build it in a few focused steps.
- 1Connect Gmail and Canvas once in the Notis portal.
- 2Create an automation in Automations, New Automation, and give it a name.
- 3Tell Notis when an assessment request is complete enough to create a quiz and how to handle missing details.
- 4Choose New Gmail Message Received and set where run reports go.
- 5Test with one real assessment request and review the quiz settings.
Questions about this workflow
Can this create quiz questions too?
This action creates a quiz. Quiz questions require a separate action and enough question details to create them.
What if the requested quiz is graded?
Include the relevant grading and assignment group requirements in the request or prompt, and review the test result.
When this happens · Trigger
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Supported Triggers and Actions
Notis builds workflows that link Gmail to Canvas. A trigger fires from one place; an action lands in another.
Gmail 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.
Email Sent
Triggers when a Gmail message is sent by the authenticated user. It polls the 'SENT' label and emits metadata including sender, recipients, subject, timestamp, and thread ID.
Create an assignment
Creates a new assignment within a specified course in canvas lms.
New Gmail Message Received Trigger
Triggers when a new message is received in Gmail.
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.
Gmail and Canvas, or any other combination from 1,000+ integrations.
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