Give qualifying new Salesforce contacts Canvas course access
For contacts who need training or onboarding, start course access from the Salesforce contact creation event and keep setup moving.
Trigger
New Contact Trigger
Triggers when a new Contact is Created in Salesforce.
Action
Create enrollment
Enrolls a user in a canvas course with a specified role and status; `associated user id` is required if `enrollment type` is 'observerenrollment'.
Why this helps
New contacts may wait for someone to notice they need Canvas access and complete enrollment by hand.
- Reduce manual enrollment steps for qualifying contacts.
- Start course access from a new Salesforce contact event.
- Apply the intended course role from your instruction.
Setup
Build it in a few focused steps.
- 1Connect Salesforce and Canvas once in the Notis portal.
- 2Create an automation in Automations, then choose New Automation.
- 3Tell Notis which new contacts qualify and specify the Canvas course and enrollment role.
- 4Pick the Salesforce New Contact trigger and choose where run reports should go.
- 5Test with one real contact and confirm the enrollment details.
Questions about this workflow
Can every Salesforce contact be enrolled automatically?
Describe which contacts qualify and ensure their identity can be matched to a Canvas user. The enrollment action requires a valid Canvas course, user, role, and status.
What if a Salesforce contact is not already a Canvas user?
The listed enrollment action enrolls a user in a course. It does not create a Canvas user, so provide an existing matching user or handle account creation separately.
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Supported Triggers and Actions
Notis builds workflows that link Salesforce to Canvas. A trigger fires from one place; an action lands in another.
Salesforce 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.
Account Created or Updated
Triggers when an Account is created or updated in Salesforce. Uses LastModifiedDate high-watermark to capture both creations and updates.
Create an assignment
Creates a new assignment within a specified course in canvas lms.
Contact Updated
Triggers when an existing Salesforce Contact record is modified. Emits changed fields alongside relevant timestamps.
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.
Record Updated (Generic SObject)
Triggers when monitored fields change on any Salesforce SObject. You specify the SObject type and which field values should be returned in the payload. The trigger uses SystemModstamp to detect changes regardless of which specific field changed.
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.
New Contact Trigger
Triggers when a new Contact is Created in Salesforce.
Create communication channel
Creates a new communication channel (e.g., email, sms, push) for an existing canvas user to receive notifications.
New Lead Trigger
Triggers when a new Lead is created in Salesforce.
Create content share
Shares a canvas content item to specified users, if the sender has necessary permissions and receiver ids are valid.
New or Updated Opportunity
Triggers when a Salesforce Opportunity is created or updated.
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.
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