Review Canvas grading activity monthly
See whether grading work is moving at a healthy pace.
Trigger
Recurring schedule
Notis starts this workflow on a schedule, such as daily, weekly, or during business hours.
Action
Get gradebook history days
Retrieves a chronological list of dates with grading activity and the active graders for a specified course.
Why this helps
Grading activity is hard to assess without checking history manually.
- Shows grading momentum
- Flags inactive periods
- Supports planning conversations
Setup
Build it in a few focused steps.
- 1Connect Canvas in Notis once.
- 2Create an automation named Monthly grading activity review.
- 3Tell Notis to retrieve gradebook history for the specified course and summarize activity dates and active graders.
- 4Choose a recurring Notis cron trigger.
- 5Choose a report channel and test with one run.
Questions about this workflow
Can it cover one course?
Yes. Specify the course id.
Can the report list active graders?
Yes. The Canvas action returns active graders with grading activity dates.
When this happens · Trigger
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Supported Triggers and Actions
Notis builds workflows that link Timelinesai to Canvas. A trigger fires from one place; an action lands in another.
Timelinesai 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 WhatsApp Message Received
Polling trigger that monitors for new messages received in TimelinesAI WhatsApp chats.
Create an assignment
Creates a new assignment within a specified course in canvas lms.
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.
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.
Create communication channel
Creates a new communication channel (e.g., email, sms, push) for an existing canvas user to receive notifications.
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.
Timelinesai and Canvas, or any other combination from 1,000+ integrations.
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