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Create course topics from Slack planning decisions

Give a course section a home as soon as the team decides it is needed.

Trigger

Channel Message Received

Triggered when a message is posted in a Slack channel (public, private, or multi-party IM). Does NOT match direct messages.

Action

Create Course Topic

Tool to create a course topic. use when you need to organize course content into named sections.

Why this helps

Organization decisions made in chat often wait until someone remembers to set up the course structure.

  • Turn course organization decisions into a concrete structure.
  • Reduce setup tasks that linger after planning discussions.
  • Keep new content easier to group as the course grows.

Setup

Build it in a few focused steps.

  • 1Connect Slack and Google Classroom to Notis once through the portal.
  • 2Create an automation or tell Notis to create a Classroom topic when Slack contains an explicit decision to add a course section.
  • 3Select the Slack channel-message trigger, choose a run-report channel, and test with one real topic request.

Questions about this workflow

Does it create a topic for every planning suggestion?

Specify that only explicit decisions or requests should create a topic, and test the prompt with a suggestion and an approved request.

Can I use it in more than one course?

Describe how the course is identified in your instruction and confirm the intended course when testing.

When this happens · Trigger

Do this · Action

Supported Triggers and Actions

Notis builds workflows that link Slack to Google Classroom. A trigger fires from one place; an action lands in another.

Slack triggers

Google Classroom actions

Recurring trigger

Notis starts this workflow on a schedule, such as daily, weekly, or during business hours.

TriggerScheduled

List CourseWorkMaterials

Tool to list courseworkmaterials in a course. use after confirming a valid courseid; supports pagination and ordering.

ActionInstant

Webhook trigger

Notis starts this workflow when an external tool or custom backend sends an HTTP request.

TriggerInstant

Create Announcement

Tool to create an announcement in a course. use after confirming the course id is valid.

ActionInstant

New Channel Created Trigger

Triggered when a new channel is created in Slack.

TriggerInstant

Delete Announcement

Tool to delete an announcement. use after confirming the announcement id.

ActionInstant

Channel Message Received

Triggered when a message is posted in a Slack channel (public, private, or multi-party IM). Does NOT match direct messages.

TriggerInstant

Get Announcement

Tool to get an announcement. use when you need to fetch an announcement by course and announcement id.

ActionInstant

Direct Message Received

Triggered when a new direct message (DM) is sent to a user in Slack. Catches all DMs across all DM channels.

TriggerInstant

List Announcements

Tool to list announcements in a course. use after you have the course id to page through announcements.

ActionInstant

Message Reaction Added

Triggered when a reaction is added to a message in Slack. Supports optional filtering by channel and emoji name.

TriggerInstant

Patch Announcement

Tool to update fields of an announcement. use when you need to modify specific details of an existing announcement after confirming which fields to update.

ActionInstant

Message Reaction Removed

Triggered when a reaction is removed from a message in Slack. Supports optional filtering by channel and emoji name.

TriggerInstant

Create Course

Tool to create a new course. use when a teacher needs to establish a classroom course before enrollment.

ActionInstant

Reaction Added Trigger

DEPRECATED: use `SLACK_MESSAGE_REACTION_ADDED` instead. Triggered when a reaction is added to a message in Slack.

TriggerInstant

Delete Course

Tool to delete a course. use when you need to remove a course after confirming the course id.

ActionInstant

Connect any two apps with Notis in the middle.

Slack and Google Classroom, or any other combination from 1,000+ integrations.

When this happens · Trigger

Do this · Action

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