by Michael Hughes.
We've done some custom development that displays a block that shows all of the assignments that a user has coming up "now" or "soon" (within 14 days) and creates a single list of activities from *all* their classes in submission date order.
I don't know if there's any likelihood that we'd be able to open source it (i'll see), but there is definitely a requirement both in exposing this information and aggregating across classes.
