What I do

This week has been typical, although I didn't have several fun side jobs I got a lot of work done on my course migrations. I finished a migration from the previous week, I completed an entire new migration, and I got a significant way into a new migration.
Each course migration offers design and programming challenges. As each course has a unique structure, words for sections, categories containing different items, types of media, location of media and format of media. For instance, the majority of courses have the heart or the meat of the course in an index of modules which contain the instructions, assignments and reading for each week. Different instructors call these different things. Work of the week, module index, course work, assignments are some examples of how this section is titled. Assignments is also a different category where you go to view and submit assignments. The work of the week may be under a button labled work of the week or it may be under a link titles course work or modules or something similar. My job is to form the new site into a coherent and logical site while maintaining as much of the original structure and naming as possible.
Sakai looks much different from Blackboard so each finished product has a clean white modern look to it. I find this very satisfying. Conversely Blackboard pages look old fashioned and gray to me. I get to "clean up" and modernize every site and I feel like I'm improving them, for look and clarity and functionality. The requirement for our department to perform any course work is if we will be adding value, and I honestly feel I add a lot of value to my courses.