Carry Telegram channel updates into Canvas
Important channel announcements can become a Canvas discussion topic, giving course participants a clear place to ask questions and respond.
Trigger
New Channel Post
Triggered when a new post is published to a channel where your bot is an administrator.
Action
Create discussion topic
Creates a new discussion topic in a specified canvas course, allowing comprehensive configuration of its content, type, publication settings, engagement features, and associations.
Why this helps
Course updates shared in a Telegram channel can be hard for learners to revisit or discuss together.
- Give channel updates a discussion space in the course.
- Help participants find and revisit important information.
- Reduce repeated reposting across course tools.
Setup
Build it in a few focused steps.
- 1Connect the Telegram channel and Canvas to Notis once.
- 2Create an automation in the portal or describe the desired result to Notis in chat.
- 3In one plain-language instruction, describe which channel posts should become a Canvas discussion topic and where it belongs.
- 4Choose New Channel Post as the trigger, select a reporting channel, and test with a real post.
Questions about this workflow
Does the Telegram bot need channel access?
The bot must be an administrator in the channel for the New Channel Post trigger to receive posts.
Can the workflow ignore routine channel posts?
Describe which updates are relevant in the instruction so Notis can interpret the intended scope.
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Supported Triggers and Actions
Notis builds workflows that link Telegram to Canvas. A trigger fires from one place; an action lands in another.
Telegram 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.
New Message Received
Triggered when your bot receives a new message in a private chat, group, or supergroup. To receive every message in a group, Privacy Mode must be disabled for the bot in BotFather.
Create an assignment
Creates a new assignment within a specified course in canvas lms.
New Channel Post
Triggered when a new post is published to a channel where your bot is an administrator.
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.
Callback Query Received
Triggered when a user taps an inline keyboard button attached to one of your bot's messages.
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.
Message Edited
Triggered when a message in a chat your bot can see is edited by its sender.
Create communication channel
Creates a new communication channel (e.g., email, sms, push) for an existing canvas user to receive notifications.
New Chat Member
Triggered when a new member joins a group or supergroup the bot belongs to, including when the bot itself is added.
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.
Telegram and Canvas, or any other combination from 1,000+ integrations.
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