Create Canvas calendar events from planning changes
When a planning file signals a new milestone, Notis can place it on the Canvas calendar.
Trigger
Item Moved or Renamed
Triggers when a file or folder is moved to a different path or renamed in OneDrive. Includes both old and new path/name data in the payload.
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 course dates stay in planning files and never reach the learner calendar.
- Keep dates visible
- Reduce missed milestones
- Connect planning to delivery
Setup
Build it in a few focused steps.
- 1Connect OneDrive and Canvas in Notis once.
- 2Create an automation asking Notis to create the matching Canvas calendar event from the changed planning context.
- 3Pick the OneDrive item moved or renamed trigger.
- 4Choose a report destination and test with one milestone file.
Questions about this workflow
Can the event recur?
Include the supported recurrence rule in your instruction when a finite series is needed.
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Supported Triggers and Actions
Notis builds workflows that link One drive to Canvas. A trigger fires from one place; an action lands in another.
One drive 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.
Onedrivebasetrigger
Base trigger for OneDrive changes using Gmail-style state management. Subclasses override `filter_changes(...)` to extract only the relevant items.
Create an assignment
Creates a new assignment within a specified course in canvas lms.
OneDrive File Created Trigger
Triggers when a new file is created in OneDrive. Uses Gmail-style state management for reliable duplicate prevention.
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.
File Updated
Trigger that fires when a OneDrive file's content or metadata changes. Returns file ID, last modified time, and modifier info.
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.
OneDrive Folder Created Trigger
Triggers when a new folder is created in OneDrive. Uses Gmail-style state management for reliable duplicate prevention.
Create communication channel
Creates a new communication channel (e.g., email, sms, push) for an existing canvas user to receive notifications.
OneDrive Item Deleted Trigger
Triggers when a file or folder is deleted in OneDrive. Uses Gmail-style state management for reliable duplicate prevention.
Create content share
Shares a canvas content item to specified users, if the sender has necessary permissions and receiver ids are valid.
Item Moved or Renamed
Triggers when a file or folder is moved to a different path or renamed in OneDrive. Includes both old and new path/name data in the payload.
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.
One drive and Canvas, or any other combination from 1,000+ integrations.
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