Turn Slack cohort requests into Canvas assignments
When your team posts a clear learner task in a Slack channel, create a matching assignment in the relevant Canvas course.
Connect Slack to Canvas
When something happens in Slack, Notis takes the next step in Canvas. Describe what you want in plain English, or start from one of the examples below.
When this happens · Trigger
Triggers when a new channel is created.
Do this · Action
Creates a global notification for a Canvas account.
Examples
Ways Notis can move work from Slack to Canvas
Add Slack-confirmed sessions to Canvas Calendar
Turn a team-confirmed session date shared in Slack into a Canvas calendar event for the relevant course.
Turn recurring learner questions into Canvas discussions
When a Slack channel surfaces a recurring cohort question, open a Canvas discussion topic for learners to continue the conversation.
Publish course updates announced in Slack
Create a Canvas course page when a Slack channel message contains a clear, learner-facing course update.
Share a course resource when your team reacts
Use a specific Slack reaction on a message to trigger a Canvas content share to the intended learner recipients.
Post cohort questions to a Canvas discussion
When your team captures a cohort question or office-hours topic in Slack, add it as an entry to the matching Canvas discussion.
Turn learner follow-up requests into Canvas conversations
When a learner messages you in Slack with a clear request for course follow-up, create a Canvas conversation for the identified recipient.
Apply a Canvas due-date override from an agreed Slack request
Create an assignment override when a Slack channel records a specific approved learner or section deadline adjustment.
Route course handoffs into a Canvas conversation
When a Slack message explicitly hands course work to a named collaborator, create a Canvas conversation to keep the handoff in course context.
Supported Triggers and Actions
Notis builds workflows that link Slack to Canvas. A trigger fires from one place; an action lands in another.
Slack triggers
Canvas actions
Recurring trigger
Notis starts this workflow on a schedule, such as daily, weekly, or during business hours.
TriggerScheduled
Create account notification
Creates a global notification for a Canvas account.
ActionInstant
Webhook trigger
Notis starts this workflow when an external tool or custom backend sends an HTTP request.
TriggerInstant
Abort Quiz Report Generation
Cancels quiz report generation or removes a previously generated report.
ActionInstant
New Channel Created Trigger
Triggers when a new channel is created.
TriggerInstant
Create appointment group
Creates an appointment group with schedulable time slots.
ActionInstant
Channel Message Received
Triggers when a message is posted in a channel, excluding direct messages.
TriggerInstant
Add conversation message
Adds a follow-up message to an existing conversation.
ActionInstant
Direct Message Received
Triggers when a new direct message, including a thread reply, is sent to a user.
TriggerInstant
Create an assignment
Creates an assignment in a Canvas course.
ActionInstant
Message Reaction Added
Triggers when a reaction is added to a message.
TriggerInstant
Add course to favorites
Adds a course to the current user’s favorites; no change occurs if it is already saved.
ActionInstant
Message Reaction Removed
Triggers when a reaction is removed from a message.
TriggerInstant
Create assignment override
Creates an assignment override to adjust dates for selected students, a group, or a course section.
ActionInstant
New Bot Message Received Trigger
Triggers when a bot posts a new message in a channel.
TriggerInstant
Add group to favorites
Adds a group to the current user’s favorites; no change occurs if it is already saved.
ActionInstant
Trigger Types
Four ways to start an automation.
A trigger is the event that kicks a workflow off. Notis supports four kinds: an event in a connected app, an inbound webhook, a schedule (recurring or one-time), and a change in one of your Notis databases.
Integration triggers
Fire when something happens inside a connected app. New Notion page, Stripe charge, Linear issue: any of 1,500+ apps can start a workflow.
New Notion pageStripe chargeCalendar event
Webhook triggers
A unique URL per workflow. Anything that can send an HTTP POST can start an automation, including no-code tools that speak webhooks.
Any HTTP POSTCustom backendIoT event
Works with
ZapierPipedream
Most used
Scheduled triggers
Run a workflow on the clock, on a recurring schedule or once at a set date and time. Daily standups, hourly syncs, a one-off launch reminder: the workhorse of Notis.
Daily · 8:00Weekdays onlyOnce · Dec 13
Beta
Database triggers
Fire when a row in one of your Notis databases is added or edited, with optional filters on its properties. New lead added, status changed, value crosses a limit.
Row addedProperty editedValue > limit
Why AI automation
Classic automation breaks. AI adapts.
Same triggers and actions, smarter middle. AI handles the fuzziness that breaks traditional Zapier-style workflows the moment a field gets renamed.
Classic automationAI automation
Cost
$ · pay per run
$$ · AI models per run
Reliability
Breaks on schema change
Adapts to format changes
Setup
Click 8 dropdowns
Describe it in English
Handles fuzzy
Hard-coded fields only
Reads intent, summarises
Human in loop
Bolted on
Built in · approval inbox
Maintenance
You own every break
Self-heals · we own it
Ease of use
Describe it. Notis builds it.
Skip the visual builder. Tell Notis what you want, in plain English. It writes the workflow, you review and deploy.
You · in the Notis Builder
NEW“When a row gets added to the Q4 OKRs Notion database and the status is Blocked, send a Telegram message to the owner with a summary of what's blocking, and ping me if there's no reply within 24 hours.”
Notis built this automation:
TriggerRow added to "Q4 OKRs"
Condition✦Status = "Blocked"
AI step✦Summarise the blocker in plain English
ActionDM the row owner with summary
Timeout✦No reply in 24h → ping you
Observability
Watch every run.
Notis Desktop is Mission Control for your AI automations. See every run, replay, edit, or rewind. Set approval gates so Notis pauses before destructive actions.
- Full run history with inputs, outputs and traces
- Replay any run with edited inputs
- Approval inbox, confirm via chat in one tap
- Audit logs for compliance teams
Automations
Inbox
All12Manager5Telegram1Messages0WhatsApp2Email4Slack8
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8 daysAdd multi-tenant RBAC User initiates a voice call
13 daysDraft pricing v (tiers, limits, overages) and sanity-check margins
2 weeksVerify analytics events for new features That’s a really interesting automat…
1 monthEverything in the box.
Whatever starts the workflow, the platform underneath is the same: a thinking brain, full visibility, and you in control.
AI in the middle
Every step can include an LLM call: summarise, classify, extract, rewrite.
Full observability
Every run, every step, every input, all replay-able from Mission Control.
Human in the loop
Pause for approval. Notis pings you in chat with one-tap approve.
Self-healing
When an API changes shape, Notis adapts the parser. Less midnight fire-fighting.
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When this happens · Trigger
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