Create a Canvas discussion from a new slide
Turn presentation moments into conversations while the context is fresh.
Trigger
New Slide Added
Fires when a new slide is added to a Google Slides presentation.
Action
Create discussion topic
Creates a new discussion topic in a specified canvas course, allowing comprehensive configuration of its content, type, publication settings, engagement features, and associations.
Why this helps
Good discussion prompts get lost between slide editing and course publishing.
- Encourage timely participation
- Reuse existing teaching content
- Keep prompts tied to lesson flow
Setup
Build it in a few focused steps.
- 1Connect Google Slides and Canvas in Notis once.
- 2Create an automation for discussion prompts.
- 3Tell Notis to write a discussion topic from each new slide and include a clear learner question.
- 4Choose the new slide trigger and a report channel.
- 5Test with one slide and inspect the topic before publishing broadly.
Questions about this workflow
Can Notis create a prompt instead of copying the slide?
Yes. Instruct Notis to summarize the slide and formulate an open-ended discussion question.
Can the topic stay unpublished?
Ask Notis to use the Canvas publication setting you want and report the result.
When this happens · Trigger
Do this · Action
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.
When this happens · Trigger
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