What would I have to do to hide all newly created courses automatically instead of going through the "Hide Inactive Courses" or the creation of empty hide_directory file?
Andras
At this point there isn't really anything that you can do. You could add a feature request to the Github issues and hope something is implemented in the next release.
I was hoping that if I use a template course that is hidden already then somehow I can get the hide_directory copied over to the new course, or I can specify what new files are created.
Yeah, unfortunately the hide_directory file is not copied. Only the templates directory, html directory, and simple.conf file are copied.