The COVID-19 pandemic affected almost all aspects of our lives, including the Education sector and the way of teaching and learning. In March 2020, health authorities in Brazil have imposed social isolation and the interruption of on-site activities in schools and universities. In this context, the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), one of the largest universities in Brazil and Latin America, developed the Emergency Remote Learning (ERL) that allowed the return of classes in an online format and supported students to obtain access to equipment and Internet network. Within this new perspective, the Undergraduate Teaching Assistant (UTA) program of the Department of Physiology and Biophysics (DFIB) has been explored strategies to minimize the impact of the absence of face-to-face classes. Using different available tools in online platforms and social media, such as, Microsoft Teams, Youtube animated video classes, and Instagram, UTA program assisted more than 500 undergraduate students and strongly supported professors during ERL. In just over a year, our video classes on Youtube Channel reached about 40k views. Most of the students reported their questions were fully and quickly solved by UTA program. Collectively, our results indicate that the strategies implemented by the UTA program helped the undergraduate students and professors to adapt to a remote learning format, keeping the quality of the education.
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