Dear Chris,
Regardless of any features tailored specifically for Announcement forums , I'd say your original idea to have a global Atto plugin for quickly deploying links to course- activities and resources was also very, very useful.
The URL activity itself could also benefit if there was a drop down with in-course links to choose from - I've always found cross-linking features inside Moodle courses cumbersome and needy .
The URL activity itself could also benefit if there was a drop down with in-course links to choose from - I've always found cross-linking features inside Moodle courses cumbersome and needy .
Just a caveat that we should be careful about the Group mode - all is a nice and clear when we have a course without groups and group restrictions. But forums, and other activities can be run in , say, the separate groups mode, with some activities restricted for some groups etc. Drop-downs with suitable links to course activities should probably be filtered accordingly - to only suggest valid links.