Introduction.

Faced with the COVID-19 pandemic, medical schools had to move from a predominantly face-to-face teaching model to the online modality, so they undertook the task of designing a series of tools to continue the training of their students.

Aim.

To know the opinion of medical students on the use of an asynchronous virtual classroom as a support resource during their learning process in the context of the pandemic.

Subjects and methods.

Thirty-one first-year medical students in Mexico participated. A nine-item questionnaire was used to find out their opinion about the quality of the contents of a subject, the suitability of the number of activities used, as well as the clarity of the introduction to each topic, its objectives and the instructions for each learning activity.

Results.

More than half found the introduction, objectives, and instructions of the asynchronous virtual classroom to carry out the learning activities for each topic easy to understand. Over 70% considered that the quality of the contents was very good and that the number of learning activities used was sufficient to cover the objectives.

Conclusions.

The results made it possible to identify the material and activities of the asynchronous virtual classroom that were, in the opinion of the students, enriching for their learning process and what changes to make to improve this platform for the benefit of their professional training.

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