It would be nice to have some kind of in-app notifications for important events - upcoming downtime, release changes, etc.

What I'm envisioning is a way for administrators to create announcements and set a date for when those announcements will be displayed. Potentially we could also determine who sees these announcements - only authors, only learners, or both. Whenever a user accesses Obojobo, the system could check if their last login is earlier than the announcement window and, if so, display the announcement to them. If multiple announcements are relevant it could stack them.

This will likely require a new database table. At the moment there are no admin-only interfaces in Obojobo. While it would be nice to have one for this purpose, it may make the most sense to stick with manually plugging information into the database. See #2010.