by ben reynolds.
Jon,
Not to be unsympathetic, but it's not clear to me what is so much work.
Are you manually creating a new course from scratch each month? If so, you can use backup and restore to make a new course each month, assuming the content of the previous course remains the same.
I'm guessing that inside each course is 12 months, or maybe if It's February, 11 months?
If yes, I would make one course with all the 12 months of material. Then back it up. Each month, your restore to create a new course. Then you hide whichever months you don't want visible.
Sorry if I've entirely misunderstood.