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We are trying to grab the student ID number from live events for use in the BlackBoard system.

This is what we see in an extract, the second number is what we want to grab for blackboard.

<userid useridtype = "SCTID" password = "888888">888219888</userid>

We just had our first technical call with BlackBoard about the upgrade from CE8 to BlackBoard 9, which we are hoping to do later this year.  A couple of answers they gave as far is the Luminis integration raised some red flags.  I'm looking for any schools out there that have gone to BB 9, or are planning to in the near future.  My primary concerns are as follows:

- the built in Luminis/WebCt integration will no longer work, which we figured going in