Turn Canvas Submissions into a Linear Review Queue
Every time a student submits an assignment in Canvas, Notis creates a Linear issue for you to grade and comment on.
Trigger
New Canvas Assignment Submission
Polls Canvas for new submissions to a specific assignment.
Action
Create linear issue
Creates a new issue in a specified linear project and team, requiring a title and description, and allowing for optional properties like assignee, state, priority, cycle, and due date.
Why this helps
Students submit work in Canvas, but your grading queue lives in Slack reminders or sticky notes. Submissions get overlooked, deadlines blur together.
- Single source of truth for pending submissions
- Organize submissions by due date, student, or assignment
- Track grading progress across your courses
Setup
Build it in a few focused steps.
- 1Connect Canvas and Linear integrations to Notis once in your portal settings.
- 2Tell Notis: 'When a new Canvas assignment is submitted, create a Linear issue labeled with the student name and course code.' (Or create it in portal Automations.)
- 3Choose Canvas New Assignment Submission as the trigger and pick your notification channel.
- 4Test by having a student (or yourself) submit a test assignment to Canvas, then verify the Linear issue appears.
- 5Refine your prompt if you want issues tagged by course, due date urgency, or submission type.
Questions about this workflow
Can I prioritize submissions by due date?
Yes. Include 'set priority high if due within 24 hours' in your automation prompt, and Notis will interpret it. This helps you spot urgent submissions at a glance.
What if multiple students submit to the same assignment?
Each submission gets its own Linear issue. This is intentional: it keeps your review queue granular and prevents context-switching when grading different students' work.
Does this work for late submissions?
Absolutely. Notis captures late submissions the same way and can automatically tag them or set a different priority if your prompt specifies.
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Supported Triggers and Actions
Notis builds workflows that link Canvas to Linear. A trigger fires from one place; an action lands in another.
Canvas triggers
Linear actions
Canvas Assignment Graded
Polls Canvas for newly graded submissions for a specific assignment.
Create linear attachment
Creates a new attachment and associates it with a specific, existing linear issue.
New Canvas Assignment Submission
Polls Canvas for new submissions to a specific assignment.
Create a comment
Creates a new comment on a specified linear issue.
New Canvas Discussion Message
Polls Canvas discussion topics for new messages.
Create linear issue
Creates a new issue in a specified linear project and team, requiring a title and description, and allowing for optional properties like assignee, state, priority, cycle, and due date.
New Canvas Discussion Topic
Polls a Canvas course for new discussion topics.
Get create issue default params
Fetches a linear team's default issue estimate and state, useful for pre-filling new issue forms.
New Course Created for User
Polls Canvas for newly created courses for a specific user.
Create a label
Creates a new label in linear for a specified team, used to categorize and organize issues.
New Canvas File Upload
Polls a Canvas course for new file uploads.
Delete issue
Archives an existing linear issue by its id, which is linear's standard way of deleting issues; the operation is idempotent.
Get all teams
Retrieves all teams from the linear workspace without requiring any parameters.
Download issue attachments
Downloads a specific attachment from a linear issue; the `file name` must include the correct file extension.
Connect any two apps with Notis in the middle.
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