Investigating the Situation of Brazilian Undergraduate Students during the COVID-19 Pandemic

This work aims to understand how the COVID19 pandemic situation affected student’s feelings and 2020 Brazilian study conditions during the class suspension. In Brazil, as opposed to the USA and Europe, the first classes semester usually starts in middle March and ends in middle July, but due to the pandemic situation that affected hardly the country, classes were suspended in many states in the middle of March, and in some cases, only returned in September or October, on an online format. To understand how students experienced this time without classes, a survey was applied to undergraduate students with questions about their feelings, their hardware and internet resources conditions to come back to classes remotely, and if they lived in the same city where the educational institution where they studied was located. With this information, it was possible to have a panorama of how the students felt during the time that classes were suspended, their state of minds to classes restart, and the conditions that they had to continue their studies in online learning, which lasts until the end of the year 2020.