Personally, I organized an online exam. For a select group of students I offered a third attempt at a course that's known for being a stumbling blook. Ordinarily, this is a written exam that is scanned into ANS, but on this occasion students sat the exam online via ANS and a colleague acted as inviligator. It was a great way of working, even for an exam that had to be completed largely on paper. Students were asked to use their cell phone to make a scan of their 'working out', which they then uploaded.

The day before the exam, a digital question session was held. During this MS Teams meeting, students were able to ask questions relating to past exam papers and material from the textbook. And they did. The students prepared well for the session and I hope I was able to answer all their questions to their satisfaction. Actually, it was rather like teaching in a digital environment. And to teach you need a chalkboard, or a whiteboard, expecially if you are standing before a small group and you aren't a mathematician.

In the digital environment a whiteboard is also very useful. Unfortunately, at TU/e this resource is broken. The digital whiteboard works well in Lync, but not in Teams. Your whiteboard is created (and you can also see it via https://whiteboard.microsoft.com/), but in the Teams environment it fails to appear. So I had to make do with Paint. In meetings with PhD candidates and final-year undergraduates I also miss my whiteboard.

But what I'm still missing most of all is the opportunity to simply stand in front of a whiteboard. With a cup of coffee in one hand, a marker pen in the other (I have them in eight colors) and the cap of the pen in my mouth. Trying to organize my thoughts, a paper, a report, a course or whatever on a large expanse of white. Then taking a photo of the result and filing it away in a digital archive. Nothing beats a physical whiteboard, does it?