This behavior has been resolved and deployed to the production environment in version 8.1.
Description
For students/teachers enrolled cross-shard in courses, images will show a broken icon when they are not logged in to the instance the course is hosted in.
Expected Behavior
Users with cross-shard enrollments should see images in courses.
Workaround
No workaround exists at this time.
Steps to Reproduce
Prerequisites: Published course, and 2 instances where you can enroll a user cross-shard
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Create a user in instance A, and a course in instance B.
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In your course, add some images to an assignment or page.
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Enroll your user from instance A in to your instance B course.
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With the app, login with your user to instance A, go to the course, and navigate to where the images are.
Additional Info
MBL-19168
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