Create a Canvas assignment from every new slide
Keep teaching materials and coursework aligned as your deck evolves.
Trigger
New Slide Added
Fires when a new slide is added to a Google Slides presentation.
Action
Create an assignment
Creates a new assignment within a specified course in canvas lms.
Why this helps
Assignment setup gets forgotten when presentation content changes at the last minute.
- Reduce duplicate course setup
- Keep assignment instructions current
- Capture slide context automatically
Setup
Build it in a few focused steps.
- 1Connect Google Slides and Canvas in Notis once.
- 2Create an automation named for slide-based assignments.
- 3Tell Notis to turn each new slide into a Canvas assignment using its title and content.
- 4Pick the Google Slides new slide trigger and choose a report channel.
- 5Test with one real slide and review the created assignment.
Questions about this workflow
Can Notis read the new slide content?
Yes. Notis can use the content returned by the Google Slides new slide event to draft the assignment.
Can I review the assignment before students see it?
Ask Notis to create it with your preferred publication state and report the result for review.
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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