As some interview informants were on their teaching practice in the times of Covid-19, how the Covid-19 pandemic affected the Hungarian public educational context will be briefly surveyed prior to the university context. The pandemic posed unprecedented challenges for the educational systems worldwide. Sudden school closures in the spring of 2020 meant that learners and teachers had to transform their traditional classroom practices, but the empirical studies reviewed so far (especially the virtual collaboration projects) proved that online education is a systematically planned form of education, where the planning process takes even the minute details into consideration. Effective digital education is not only planned but it is facilitated through an established online environment which learners and instructors are familiar with. As neither of these conditions (i.e., thorough planning and making use of an existing LMS system) were fulfilled, the international discourse calls the 2020 spring educational period the days of emergency remote teaching (ERT), signalling that transformation had to happen rapidly and under chaotic circumstances (Hodges et al., 2020).