rgibson1, I'm with you--and for many years now, I've been importing my announcements every semester into a standalone sandbox course and copying-and-pasting them over to the live courses as needed, because I want to make absolutely positively sure that the most recent announcement is firmly pressed against the top and that those students who have set their notifications to receive new announcements get those notifications. In other words, there's nothing automated about my announcement process.
I would love to be able to "pin" an announcement to the top of the announcements list. And, as you may know, I was the proponent of this now-archived Feature Idea: . On the bright side, this other one's in the "gathering info" stage: , and @peytoncraighill has promised to update us on it.
But should your question indeed be a question, or should it be a discussion instead? I wouldn't say there's a right or wrong answer on this. I'd be happy to change it to a discussion so that it remains open-ended. And, should it even be here in the Find Answers space--or should it be in the Canvas Feature Ideas space instead, perhaps as a continuation of the conversation surrounding the aforementioned request?
Wow...posted at the same minute!
Fun.
