diff --git a/Dockerfile b/Dockerfile
index 62728f5..861c0bd 100644
--- a/Dockerfile
+++ b/Dockerfile
@@ -66,5 +66,19 @@ RUN mkdir -p /var/www/moodledata && \
     # chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/moodledata && \
     chmod -R 770 /var/www/moodledata
 
+
+# Set up Moodle cron job
+COPY moodle-cron /etc/cron.d/moodle-cron
+RUN chmod 0644 /etc/cron.d/moodle-cron && \
+    crontab /etc/cron.d/moodle-cron
+
+# Create startup script to run cron and apache
+COPY start.sh /usr/local/bin/
+RUN chmod +x /usr/local/bin/start.sh
+
 # Set working directory
 WORKDIR /var/www/html
+
+# Set entrypoint to our startup script
+ENTRYPOINT ["/usr/local/bin/start.sh"]
+
diff --git a/moodle-cron b/moodle-cron
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..8ec581c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/moodle-cron
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+# Run Moodle cron every minute
+* * * * * /usr/local/bin/php /var/www/html/admin/cli/cron.php > /dev/null 2>&1
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diff --git a/start.sh b/start.sh
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..c545bbd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/start.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+# Start cron service
+service cron start
+
+# Start Apache in foreground
+apache2-foreground
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