Operational Checklists

Weekly Operations

• Review scheduled-task and ad-hoc-task failures.
• Check backup completion and restore-test status.
• Review disk usage for Moodle application files, database storage, logs, and moodledata.
• Inspect authentication, enrolment, and integration errors.
• Review security announcements and plugin update notices.

Monthly Operations

• Validate monitoring thresholds and alert routing.
• Review administrator accounts and privileged roles.
• Confirm documentation for integrations and service accounts.
• Test a sample restore in a non-production environment.
• Review performance trends and capacity forecasts.

Before Major Changes

• Confirm business owner approval.
• Document the change plan, validation plan, and rollback criteria.
• Back up application files, database, and moodledata as needed.
• Rehearse in staging when the risk is significant.
• Communicate outage windows and user impact.