Run the courses generator to ensure there are no regressions cd /moodle/dirroot *php admin/tool/generator/cli/maketestcourse.php --size="S" --shortname="whatever_1" A new course with shortname whatever_1 SHOULD be created and you SHOULD see quite a few outputs in the CLI Run maketestcourse.php (same command as described above) but now with the --quiet option and changing the --shortname option's value A new course with shortname "whateveryouused" SHOULD be created and you SHOULD NOT see outputs in the CLI Use the web interface to create a new course accessing admin/tool/generator/maketestcourse.php being logged as an admin (or Site administration -> Development -> Make test course) A new course SHOULD be created and you SHOULD NOT see any error Run the site generator cd /moodle/dirroot/ php admin/tool/generator/cli/maketestsite.php --size="XS" There SHOULD be 3 new courses, two with name Test course: XS and another one with name Test course: S Check the new Test course: S course's contents, the page activities SHOULD be spread across all sections or most of them (is random) php admin/tool/generator/cli/maketestsite.php --size="XS" --fixeddataset There SHOULD be 3 new courses, two with name Test course: XS and another one with name Test course: S Check the new Test course: S course's contents, the page activities SHOULD be in the first topic's section php admin/tool/generator/cli/maketestsite.php --size="XS" --quiet You SHOULD NOT see any output in the CLI There SHOULD be 3 new courses, two with name Test course: XS and another one with name Test course: S php admin/tool/generator/cli/maketestsite.php --size="S" There SHOULD be 12 new courses, 8 with name Test course: XS and 4 with name Test course: S