srjmsSRJMSSRJMS2788-9483https://doi.org/10.47310/srjms.2021.v01i01.017Nursing Students’ Attitude towards Virtual Classes during COVIDFarzanaBegumBackground: History witnesses that pandemics always have disrupted life. The current pandemic due to Coronavirus which was detected in late 2019 in the city of Wuhan, China affected almost the entire world in a very short time. It has had a negative impact on people’s social interaction and has brought changes in every aspect of life. Partial or full time lockdown have been imposed around the world to reduce the spreading of the epidemic that changed the way of life. Practices such as work from home, has been implemented. The education sector also could not escape from this restriction. Abruptly the digital technologies have been adopted to manage the gap. The whole academic years maintained in digital environments. Though unlike traditional education, virtual education also has many advantages such as flexibility, time savings, comfort, asynchronous interaction, enhance group collaboration, speedy dissemination of education materials, offers combination of education while balancing family and work life. However, there are certain drawbacks of virtual learning which can’t be denied. Lack of safety to access internet and internet-featured devices. Those cannot afford internet and a smart device may deprive of education. Internet speed and connectivity may affect various educational activity (rural area). Nursing education since needs continuous hands on training and it is more based on skill and competency development, it is markedly affected due to dry lab and lack of opportunity for clinical and field experience. The current study was aimed to explore the attitude of nursing students towards virtual learning. Results: The current study found that 79% nursing students have positive attitude towards virtual classes. All the students have smart phones and they have attended their classes through that. Eighty percent students have a good internet access. Fifty-two percent students had never experienced any online session before COVID. Ninety-three percent nursing students know downloading audios/videos/documents and sending documents/images/videos to others online, 87% know preparing content in word and PDF file, 71% feel confident in using computer, 68% learn to use computer and online activities by trial and error, 54% know shortcuts, and more efficient ways to use computer and 45% solve problems with any function of the computer by self. Internet accessibility, confidence in using computer and unable to solve problems related to functions of computer have significant association with attitude towards virtual learning. Conclusions: Lack of previous experience of virtual sessions, technology use competency of students, poor internet accessibility, not having a laptop and all of a sudden forceful implication of complete digitalisation in education system put the students into challenges. They must have suffered a lot for that is a big matter of concern. The current study is an eye opener to make the students understand that they need to develop their technology use competency in order to cope with the future need, since in future the society going to be more digitalised globally.