Create Canvas discussion topics from form themes
Turn repeated questions into a shared place for answers.
Trigger
New Form Response
Triggers when a respondent completes and submits the form.
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
Recurring questions stay scattered across submissions and never become a visible resource.
- Surfaces recurring needs
- Creates reusable course context
- Cuts repetitive replies
Setup
Build it in a few focused steps.
- 1Connect Typeform and Canvas once in the Notis portal.
- 2Create an automation for recurring-theme discussions.
- 3Describe how to identify a meaningful theme and draft the topic content.
- 4Pick the Typeform New Form Response trigger.
- 5Choose where reports go and test with one real response.
Questions about this workflow
Will every response create a topic?
No. Instruct Notis to create one only when the response meets your theme threshold.
Can the topic be unpublished for review?
Yes. Include your preferred publication state in the instruction.
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Supported Triggers and Actions
Notis builds workflows that link Typeform to Canvas. A trigger fires from one place; an action lands in another.
Typeform 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 Form Response
Triggers when a respondent completes and submits the form.
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.
Typeform and Canvas, or any other combination from 1,000+ integrations.
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