2.6 COVID-19
Online teaching began at Nottingham on the 23rd March 2020 (Figure 4). This came after the poster session and before the third team training session. There was just one lecture left which was put on Moodle. All the remaining sessions were tutorials and happened using video calls with each group within their Microsoft Teams. The class viewing was to be streamed using the whole class Microsoft Team. Unfortunately, due to stormy conditions the internet crashed halfway through the first video which was disappointing. However all but 2 students joined the non-compulsory session (one of those students was in a different time zone).
Aside from the unusual circumstances, and interviews needing to occur via video call, the course continued as programmed. Students were reminded that collaborations are often done with people in other countries or time-zones in much the same way they were working (they were also provided with links to YouTube videos of orchestras playing online as a Covid-19 special treat!).