I believe that adding "Checklists" into the Coursework Dropdown Menu can help students quickly access all of the checklists that their instructors have created.
As of now, the ways students can access my checklists is if I post them in every Announcement and in the modules. It has been my experience that students have difficulty navigating the website on their own and remembering where to find their tasks, etc. I use the Checklist in the hopes that it is one place they can always go back to know exactly what they need to do without being completely overwhelmed by the Modules.
I suppose the Calendar is a quick work around provided that all of my checklist tasks have due dates and that I have added the dates to the Calendar.
I hope that this can become a possibility sometime soon.