Plans vs Reality: Reflections on Chemical Crystallography Online Teaching During COVID-19

This communication describes the actions undertaken to translate the chemical crystallography course at the University of Novi Sad, Serbia, from face-to-face to online instruction, as well as the emerging challenges encountered during this unprecedented time. As part of the global efforts to respond to the recent disruptions to teaching, our purpose in this paper was to provide insights about useful methods that can be used in chemical crystallography courses to alleviate the concerns resulting from this shift in modality and to point out to some aspects of teaching that did not work as expected, despite the optimum efforts.