This behavior has been resolved and deployed to the production environment as of 5/20/26.
Summary:
When non-Account Admin users preview Global announcements from their dashboard any images, media files or document files will not be accessible.
Expected Behavior:
Images, media and document files added into the Global announcements should not be broken.
Steps to Reproduce:
Prerequisites: Add Global announcements with an embedded image, a document file a media file and have at least a student or Teacher in the account.
- Act as the user once the Global announcement has been created.
- Note that once you land at the dashboard, the Global announcement with images appearing as broken, the media files show as Access Denied and the document file gives a Failed getting file contents (403 error in console)