Create a Canvas discussion from a changed task list
When a planning stream changes, turn the new direction into a course conversation.
Trigger
Task List Changed
Triggers when a task list changes (title or content updates). This trigger monitors a specific Google Tasks list and fires when changes are detected.
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
New priorities do not reach students until someone manually turns them into a discussion.
- Translate priorities into dialogue
- Keep course communication timely
- Reduce manual drafting
Setup
Build it in a few focused steps.
- 1Connect Google Tasks and Canvas in Notis once.
- 2Create an automation for creating discussion topics from selected list changes.
- 3Tell Notis how to identify the course and what discussion format to use.
- 4Pick Task List Changed as the trigger and choose where reports go.
- 5Test with one list change containing a clear topic.
Questions about this workflow
Can the topic remain unpublished?
Yes. Ask Notis to create it as a draft when your Canvas permissions and instruction support that.
What if the list change is operational only?
Tell Notis to ignore changes that do not contain a student relevant topic.
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Supported Triggers and Actions
Notis builds workflows that link Google Tasks to Canvas. A trigger fires from one place; an action lands in another.
Google Tasks 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 Task Created
Triggers when a new task is created in a Google Tasks list. Uses timestamp filtering (updatedMin) to efficiently detect new tasks.
Create an assignment
Creates a new assignment within a specified course in canvas lms.
New Task List Created
Triggers when a new Google Tasks task list is created. This trigger monitors Google Tasks and fires when new task lists are detected.
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.
Task Details Changed
Triggers when a specific task's details change. This trigger monitors a single Google Task and fires when any of its details (title, notes, status, due date, completion, position) are modified.
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.
Task List Changed
Triggers when a task list changes (title or content updates). This trigger monitors a specific Google Tasks list and fires when changes are detected.
Create communication channel
Creates a new communication channel (e.g., email, sms, push) for an existing canvas user to receive notifications.
Task Updated
Triggers when an existing task is updated in a Google Tasks list. This trigger monitors a specific task list and fires when tasks are modified.
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 Tasks and Canvas, or any other combination from 1,000+ integrations.
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