The Portage branch of Red River College has been rolling with the punches and dealing with the pandemic.

The College had to shift around classes and find alternative methods of education.

Regional Campus Manager Guy Moffat explains how they did it.

"Many of our programs have concluded with alternate delivery or learning from home. We still have one program that is running over the summer, and into the fall. (Students) are still learning from home as well."

The College is keen on ensuring the safety of Manitobans alongside students and don't want to see the sickness spread.

Moffat explains how education in the fall will look.

"The majority of our programs will still be under the learning from the home format. I believe there will be the ability for some of our programs to come on campus during the fall. That means any of the programs that have a hands-on component, where they need to see, touch and feel. That would include programs like Early Childhood Education and our Health Care Aide program."

Moffat notes that business type programming will be done from an at-home basis.

The College is trying to make the day as normal for students as possible - classes still take attendance, host online lectures, and have break-out groups. The only change is working from home.

Moffat says some positives have come from the pandemic.

"The centre for learning and programming development within the college has done a lot of work on developing our online learning and shifting from the classroom to online. There are standards that the college is setting for what this type of education looks like, the type of information we are providing to the students, and the fashion they're providing it to the students as well."