Redmine

I am looking into using redmine to track the creation of a series of training courses. Each topic in a course follows the same set of subtasks (research, create lesson, create exercises, etc), each of which starts out with some consistent properties like the estimated hours.

I'm trying to save myself some work by creating a dummy topic with all the necessary subtasks defined with hours and everything, and then just making copies of it to fill out each course. So far it's working ok, but it's more than a bit clunky.

Admittedly this is probably something of an edge case, and maybe I'm just not using the right tool for the job, but does anyone have any advice/tricks/plugins/etc I should know about?