Post Typeform feedback into Canvas discussions
Keep feedback visible where the course conversation already happens.
Trigger
New Form Response
Triggers when a respondent completes and submits the form.
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
Feedback sits in form exports while the teaching team works in Canvas.
- Centralizes feedback
- Saves copy and paste
- Keeps context with the course
Setup
Build it in a few focused steps.
- 1Connect Typeform and Canvas once in the Notis portal.
- 2Create an automation for feedback posting.
- 3In one instruction, explain which responses to summarize and where to post them.
- 4Pick the Typeform New Form Response trigger.
- 5Select a report channel and test with one real response.
Questions about this workflow
Can responses be summarized first?
Yes. Tell Notis to summarize or redact responses before creating the discussion entry.
Do I need an existing topic?
Yes. The Canvas discussion topic must already exist for this action.
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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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