In connection with the coronavirus pandemic, all higher education institutions were forced from March 2020 to switch to a distance form of student education and complete the academic year in this format. The current 2020-21 academic year, universities began in a mixed format, but since October, the vast majority of higher education institutions have again returned to the distance form of study. In fact, for a whole year, the faculty of universities taught students in the conditions of distance learning. For most departments of universities, such a transition was a complete surprise. The departments were not ready for this turn of events, and they urgently had to develop methods for distance education of students of the taught educational disciplines. The article describes the experience of teachers of the section "Engineering and Computer Graphics" of the department "Fundamentals of Mechanism and Machine Design" of the UGATU in conducting remote classes in the discipline "Engineering and Computer Graphics" in 2019-20 and 2020-21 academic years.