Admins without the "Users - act as" permission are able to delete submissions in SG2

InstContentTeam

This behavior has been resolved and deployed to the production environment as of 3/25/26.

Summary:

When “Performance and Usability Upgrades for SpeedGrader” is enabled, admins without the “Users- act as” permissions are able to delete submission files.

Expected behavior:

Admins without the “Users- act as” permissions should not see the delete submission icon.

Steps to Reproduce:

Prerequisites: An admin user without the Users - act as permission and a course with “Performance and Usability Upgrades for SpeedGrader”.

1. Create and publish a file upload assignment and submit to it as a student.
2. As the admin user navigate to SpeedGrader and observe that the delete option is present.
3. Click on the delete icon.
4. Observe that the file is removed without any errors.