Bring selected course questions into Canvas
A private planning issue can still point to a useful learner conversation. Notis can create a Canvas topic when the question is ready to share.
Trigger
Private Team Issue Created
Fires when a new issue appears in a private Linear team (polled with the connected user's token).
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
Valuable questions can remain invisible to learners because they were first captured in a private planning team.
- Give selected questions a learner-facing home.
- Keep internal planning separate from course discussion.
- Reduce time spent recreating prompts.
Setup
Build it in a few focused steps.
- 1Connect Linear and Canvas to Notis once through the portal.
- 2Create an automation in the portal or ask Notis to share selected private-team questions.
- 3Write one plain-language prompt specifying which new private-team issues are approved for a Canvas discussion.
- 4Select the Private Team Issue Created trigger and choose a channel for run reports.
- 5Test with one approved question and review the Canvas topic before using it broadly.
Questions about this workflow
Does this expose every private issue?
No. Describe the narrow set of issues approved for learner discussion and test the resulting topic.
Why use the private-team trigger?
This trigger is for new issues in a private Linear team, using the connected user's access.
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Supported Triggers and Actions
Notis builds workflows that link Linear to Canvas. A trigger fires from one place; an action lands in another.
Linear 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.
Comment Received Trigger
Triggered when a comment is received.
Create an assignment
Creates a new assignment within a specified course in canvas lms.
Issue Created Trigger
Triggered when a new issue is created.
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.
Issue Updated Trigger
Triggered when an issue is updated. For example labels are changed, issue status is changed, etc.
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.
Private Team Comment Created
Fires when a new comment is posted on an issue in a private Linear team (polled with the connected user's token).
Create communication channel
Creates a new communication channel (e.g., email, sms, push) for an existing canvas user to receive notifications.
Private Team Issue Created
Fires when a new issue appears in a private Linear team (polled with the connected user's token).
Create content share
Shares a canvas content item to specified users, if the sender has necessary permissions and receiver ids are valid.
Private Team Issue Properties Updated
Fires when properties on an issue change in a private Linear team (polled with the connected user's token).
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.
Linear and Canvas, or any other combination from 1,000+ integrations.
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