Hello Moodlers,
I have produced a test version of the Noticeboard format for M2.7 whereby you can have activities / resources above the noticeboard. If you have a test server then please could you give it a try and feedback here: https://github.com/gjb2048/moodle-format_noticebd/tree/MOODLE_27_section_0_items
Thanks,
Gareth