'Creates the payload for creating a team. kwargs can be used to specify additional fields.'

def build_team_data(self, name='Test    team', course=None, description='Filler    description', **kwargs):

    data = kwargs
    course = (course if course else self.test_course_1)
    data.update({'name': name, 'course_id': str(course.id), 'description': description})
    return data
