I know there's a way to auto-restore a course on a schedule, but no matter what search terms I use I cannot find anything about it.
I'm referring to the situation where you have a sample course for people to play around with and then it returns to it's original state on a schedule (like very hour, for example).
Can someone point me in the right direction?
Thanks!
If you are talking about an existing plugin that does as described, haven't seen one ... but ...
a shell script using moosh commands
moosh course-delete 2 (where 2 is the course id number)
Then another moosh command:
course-restore
Restore course from path/to/backup.mbz to category or existig course.
Example 1: Restore backup.mbz into category with id=1
moosh course-restore backup.mbz 1
Example 2: Restore backup.mbz into existing course with id=3
moosh course-restore -e backup.mbz 3
Example 3: Ignore pre-check warnings, like restoring backup from higher Moodle version.
moosh course-restore --ignore-warnings backup.mbz 1
Example 4: Restore backup.mbz into existing course with id=3, overwrite course content.
moosh course-restore --overwrite backup.mbz 3
Category called "Tinker" (or whatever) - has no other courses in it.
There is a potential catch 22 ... recycle bin. Depending upon site factors, a little stress there if course is large or is made huge by tinkering and your server is in a space crunch.
Then another moosh command:
course-restore
Restore course from path/to/backup.mbz to category or existig course.
Example 1: Restore backup.mbz into category with id=1
moosh course-restore backup.mbz 1
Example 2: Restore backup.mbz into existing course with id=3
moosh course-restore -e backup.mbz 3
Example 3: Ignore pre-check warnings, like restoring backup from higher Moodle version.
moosh course-restore --ignore-warnings backup.mbz 1
Example 4: Restore backup.mbz into existing course with id=3, overwrite course content.
moosh course-restore --overwrite backup.mbz 3
Category called "Tinker" (or whatever) - has no other courses in it.
There is a potential catch 22 ... recycle bin. Depending upon site factors, a little stress there if course is large or is made huge by tinkering and your server is in a space crunch.
'SoS', Ken
Thanks, Ken, but I was thinking I'd come across something that did it on a schedule within Moodle. I don't use Moosh for anything. Maybe I dreamt it.
Here we go! Sandbox, by Alexander Bias.
And so there is!!! 
Best of luck with it!
'SoS', Ken