This story is part of Learning Curve , a HuffPost Canada series that explores the challenges and opportunities for students, faculty and post-secondary institutions amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

From behind a computer screen, Zachary Lacroix watches his teaching assistant point to body parts on a photo of a cadaver.

Normally for this human anatomy class, hed be in a lab at the University of Calgary, working with a cadaver or model of the human body. But these are not normal times. His professor provided names of computer programs that students can use to work on a model body, to stand in for the lab part of the course, but most cost money so many students rely on the virtual demonstrations.