Put Jira milestones on the Canvas calendar
Keep important project dates visible alongside course activity by turning selected Jira issues into Canvas calendar events.
Trigger
New Issue
Fires when a new issue is created in the Jira project you configure. Only issues created in that project produce an event.
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
Important dates can be overlooked when project planning and course calendars live in separate places.
- Make project dates easier to find
- Reduce manual calendar entry
- Surface missing date or course context in run reports
Setup
Build it in a few focused steps.
- 1Connect Jira and Canvas once in the Notis portal.
- 2Create an automation and describe which issues count as milestones, the date to use, and the Canvas calendar context.
- 3Pick the New Issue trigger.
- 4Choose where run reports should go.
- 5Test with one real milestone issue.
Questions about this workflow
Will every new Jira issue create a calendar event?
Your instruction should specify which issues count as milestones. The trigger itself fires for new issues in the configured project.
What if an issue has no date?
Provide a default date rule if appropriate, or instruct Notis to report the missing date and skip creating the event.
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Supported Triggers and Actions
Notis builds workflows that link Jira to Canvas. A trigger fires from one place; an action lands in another.
Jira 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 Issue
Fires when a new issue is created in the Jira project you configure. Only issues created in that project produce an event.
Create an assignment
Creates a new assignment within a specified course in canvas lms.
New Project
Triggered when a new project is added in Jira
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.
Updated Issue
Fires when an existing issue is changed in the Jira project you configure — for example its status, assignee, or any other field on the issue is updated. Only issues in that project produce an event. It does not fire on comment activity: adding, editing, or deleting a comment on an issue will not produce an event from this trigger.
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.
Jira and Canvas, or any other combination from 1,000+ integrations.
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