“…Enabling social connections should be supported by online learning, for example through break-out rooms (Calder et al, 2021 ), collaborative digital tools (Craig et al, 2020 ; Nel & Marais, 2021 ), and doing so in a creative manner (Rizvi & Nabi, 2021 ). Collaborative group projects (Ariza et al, 2020 ) have such potential, but staff must plan on group formation in team or zoom (Craig et al, 2020 ) reflecting these are new, shared learning spaces. Such new spaces have the potential to be more shared (staff and students) and to be more inclusive of the diversity of learners, such as more introverted learners (Yu, 2021 ).…”