Carry important Telegram posts into Canvas notifications
A critical channel update can become a Canvas notification, making key information visible to the relevant account audience.
Trigger
New Channel Post
Triggered when a new post is published to a channel where your bot is an administrator.
Action
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.
Why this helps
An important update may be missed by people who do not check the Telegram channel at the right time.
- Extend key updates into the Canvas environment.
- Reduce the need to repeat announcements manually.
- Help the intended audience see timely information.
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 notification outcome to Notis.
- 3Write one instruction identifying important posts, their Canvas audience, and the notification timing.
- 4Select New Channel Post, choose a run-report channel, and test with a real announcement.
Questions about this workflow
Can the notification target specific roles?
Yes. Include the intended valid notification roles in the instruction.
Does the bot need channel permissions?
The bot must be an administrator of the Telegram channel to receive new post events.
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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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