Prerequisites Email is configured on your site (use Mailhog for testing locally) Cron is setup as per recommended frequency (or you can manually execute it) Access to the database in order to execute queries Setup Login as admin Create three new users (User 1, User 2, User 3) Create a new cohort Add User 1 as a member of the cohort Navigate to Reports > Report builder > Custom reports Create a new report from the Users report source Press the Audience tab Add Member of cohort audience Select your previously created cohort and save Add Manually added users audience Select User 2 and User 3 and save Press Schedules tab Test manual sending Press New schedule - enter the following: Name: My schedule 1 Starting from: 1 January 2025 16:00 Audience: Member of cohort: My cohort Subject: My first schedule Body: Something Press Save Confirm the schedule is shown in report Press Send schedule action, then Confirm to confirm the action Wait for cron to execute the task Confirm you receive an email to User 1 : Containing the Subject/Body you previously entered Containing at attachment named My schedule 1.csv Confirm the attachment content matches the report as shown in the editor Test schedule deletion Press Schedules tab Press Delete schedule action, then Delete to confirm the action Confirm the schedule is no longer shown in the report Test automated sending Press New schedule - enter the following: Name: My schedule 2 Format: Microsoft Excel (.xlsx) Starting from: select a date/time approx. two minutes in the future Recurrence: Weekly Audience: Manually added users: User 02, User 03 Subject: My second schedule Body: Something else Press Save Confirm the schedule is shown in report Wait for cron to execute the task Confirm you receive two emails: One for User 2 and one for User 3 Containing the Subject/Body you previously entered Containing at attachment named My schedule 2.xlsx Confirm the attachment content matches the report as shown in the editor Confirm recurrence was correctly calculated From your database terminal, execute the following: SELECT * FROM mdl_reportbuilder_schedule; Copy the timescheduled , timelastsent and timenextsend timestamp values Use https://www.unixtimestamp.com/ to convert the timestamps to human-readable values Confirm timescheduled is the time you set to start the schedule Confirm timelastsent is the time the schedule was actually sent Confirm timenextsend is exactly one week after timescheduled They should look something like this (dependent on when exactly you are performing this test ): $ date -d @1639754400 #timescheduled Fri 17 Dec 15:20:00 GMT 2021 $ date -d @1639754416 #timelastsent Fri 17 Dec 15:20:16 GMT 2021 $ date -d @1640359200 #timenextsend Fri 24 Dec 15:20:00 GMT 2021