Abstract:
Even though online teaching is not a novelty, the year of 2020 with the Covid-19
pandemic has brought numerous challenges to the educational system of many countries. Online
teaching has turned from a variant into the main way of teaching. Every teacher had to face
different changes in the educational process, methods, techniques, and tools. The paper
discusses the main challenges of teachers, especially of language teachers, such as the switch
from face-to-face classes to online classes with different ways of keeping the attention of students
and turning the cameras on, computer literacy, knowledge and access to different platforms and
applications, as well as lack of proper equipment. All these aspects as well as others were taken
into consideration through a questionnaire consisting of nine questions administered to 62
teachers of various subject matters, 40 of them being language teachers. The questionnaire
resulted into various useful suggestions for online classes and revealed numerous effective
platforms and applications, with a brief description of their main features.
