Schedule a Canvas event from a new slide
Keep course dates visible whenever your presentation introduces a new milestone.
Trigger
New Slide Added
Fires when a new slide is added to a Google Slides presentation.
Action
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.
Why this helps
Deadlines and session dates are easy to miss when they first appear in teaching materials.
- Surface important dates
- Reduce calendar drift
- Help learners plan ahead
Setup
Build it in a few focused steps.
- 1Connect Google Slides and Canvas in Notis once.
- 2Create an automation for calendar milestones.
- 3Tell Notis how to detect a date or session detail in a new slide and create the matching Canvas event.
- 4Pick the new slide trigger and a report channel.
- 5Test with one dated slide and verify the event timing.
Questions about this workflow
What if the slide has no date?
Instruct Notis to report that no event was created when a usable date is missing.
Can recurring events be created?
Ask for a finite recurrence rule when the slide provides enough scheduling detail.
When this happens · Trigger
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Supported Triggers and Actions
Notis builds workflows that link Google Slides to Canvas. A trigger fires from one place; an action lands in another.
Google Slides 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.
New Slide Added
Fires when a new slide is added to a Google Slides presentation.
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.
Google Slides and Canvas, or any other combination from 1,000+ integrations.
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