Review Canvas assignments when a deck workflow signals
Give your automations a reliable handoff from presentation work to course planning.
Trigger
Webhook received
Notis starts this workflow when an external tool or custom backend sends an HTTP request.
Action
Get all assignments
Retrieves assignments for a specified canvas course.
Why this helps
Assignment status is checked manually after external content workflows complete.
- Reduce context switching
- Start reviews automatically
- Keep course planning current
Setup
Build it in a few focused steps.
- 1Connect Canvas in Notis once.
- 2Create an automation that reviews assignment data for a supplied course.
- 3Describe the review outcome you want from the fetched assignments.
- 4Choose a webhook trigger and set the report destination.
- 5Send one test webhook and inspect the report.
Questions about this workflow
What must the webhook include?
Provide the course identifier and any context Notis needs to perform the review.
Does this edit assignments?
No. This workflow fetches assignments for analysis.
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
Do this · Action
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