Bring Telegram learning questions into Canvas discussions
When a question in Telegram deserves a fuller conversation, Notis can post it to the relevant Canvas discussion and keep the group moving.
Trigger
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.
Action
Create discussion entry
Tool to create a new entry in a canvas discussion topic. use when posting a message with optional attachments to a discussion topic.
Why this helps
Good questions get buried in fast-moving Telegram chats, leaving people unsure where to continue the conversation.
- Keep questions and follow-up replies in the course discussion space.
- Reduce the effort of copying useful prompts between chat and Canvas.
- Give participants one place to find the conversation later.
Setup
Build it in a few focused steps.
- 1Connect Telegram and Canvas to Notis once through the portal.
- 2Create an automation in the portal or tell Notis what discussion entry to create from a Telegram message.
- 3Select the Telegram New Message Received trigger and identify the course discussion in the plain-language instruction.
- 4Choose a channel for run reports, then test with one real question.
Questions about this workflow
Does this post every Telegram message to Canvas?
Describe in the instruction which messages count as useful questions. Notis interprets that request and uses the selected Telegram message trigger.
Can the post go to an existing Canvas discussion?
Yes. Include the course and discussion context in the plain-language instruction so Notis knows where to add the entry.
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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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