Many of you have given instructors and myself feedback on having a "Lesson Tool".  Instead of just assigning an Activity, teachers wanted to create/bundle Activities and Resources into single "Lessons".

I just released a Lesson Tool that allows a teacher to create a lesson and link to existing Activities and Resources to be part of the lesson. 

You can assign them under your Class Manager and under Lessons.

This doesn't replace the "Announcements" section but rather adds to it.  A teacher can still create Announcements in the Lesson section as well.