Announcements 6/3/15
I stole this one from the old Community, and have adapted it to also use as scrollable sidebars on any Canvas page that includes an html editor. One of the few things I do not like about Canvas is that students have to navigate to another content are to view course announcements. I would much rather have them displayed right on my Home page. I surveyed my students after I started using this trick, and they unanimously approved!
Here is the code, and if I do this right, you should see an example to the right.
<div class="img-rounded" style="float: right; background-color: #fffbcf; width: 315px; height: 260px; border: 1px solid black; margin: 10px;">
<h3 style="color: #ffffff; background-color: #2a4e57; text-align: center; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Announcements</h3>
<div id="cc-homepage-announcements" style="height: 200px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: auto; padding: 6px; text-align: left;"> </div>
</div>
Kelley L. Meeusen
There is a way to move it, but it may require some one with super powers (in the answers area, you have 15 minutes).
Any way, this is a very useful code snippet. I really like it, and I am glad you pulled it from the old community. Since you tie it into the home page, it is probably quicker than adding an announcement. The only downside would be that the announcement does not show up in the students announcement list.
Thanks for the question.. uh I mean post.