Turn campaign lessons into Canvas quizzes
Give learners a quick way to apply what a campaign teaches.
Trigger
Campaign Trigger
Triggered when a campaign is sent or experiences an event in Mailchimp
Action
Create Quiz
Creates a new quiz with various settings in a specified existing canvas course; `assignment group id` applies only to graded quiz types.
Why this helps
Educational campaign content is published without a simple way to check understanding.
- Adds a feedback loop
- Reuses existing teaching content
- Saves quiz setup time
Setup
Build it in a few focused steps.
- 1Connect Mailchimp and Canvas in Notis once.
- 2Create an automation describing which campaigns qualify and the quiz settings to use.
- 3Pick the Mailchimp Campaign Trigger.
- 4Choose where run reports go.
- 5Test with one real campaign.
Questions about this workflow
Can Notis draft questions from the campaign?
Yes. Ask it to create questions from the campaign content and follow your specified format.
Will it publish the quiz automatically?
Only if you include publication instructions in the prompt.
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Supported Triggers and Actions
Notis builds workflows that link Mailchimp to Canvas. A trigger fires from one place; an action lands in another.
Mailchimp 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.
Campaign Trigger
Triggered when a campaign is sent or experiences an event in Mailchimp
Create an assignment
Creates a new assignment within a specified course in canvas lms.
Profile Update Trigger
Triggered when a subscriber's profile is updated in Mailchimp
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.
Subscribe Trigger
Triggered when a subscriber subscribes to Mailchimp
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.
Unsubscribe Trigger
Triggered when a subscriber unsubscribes from Mailchimp
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.
Mailchimp and Canvas, or any other combination from 1,000+ integrations.
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