coronavirus created crisis comprehensively effecting several aspects of educational ecosystem of higher educational institution heis the biggest of them all was the teaching and learning process of the institutions heis took a little while in settling with the gravity of the abrupt eruption of the situation but lucknow university was swift in its response to combat the crisis lu developed a 3 c model conduct of class creation of content and connect with students most of the classes were in the last lap so course completion in the best possible manner was the top priority the most daunting task was to ensure mental preparedness of faculty members for taking classes online without much of ict infrastructure facility and ensure completion of course after brief initial resistance many faculty members volunteered to use their own ict facilities and took classes what works the most in academics is the peer pressure this motivated the rest and the transition became smooth many even experienced that the class attendance was more than that recorded in regular classes a few faculty members even took classes in late evening on students demand since internet speed was better in those hours creation of content for the courses was another challenge faculty members were encouraged and even provided for with the secretarial support to prepare the course content this not just helped students get access to the take away domain knowledge but also which could be retained for further reference and examination lu opted for open access model to place the content created by its faculty member on the website in form of lecture notes power point presentations and assignments this open access model made the content available to all the students at the convenience of students in terms of time and space of the university its associate colleges and also to the student fraternity irrespective of their institutional affiliation all the departments of lu started their departmental youtube channel and made video lectures available to their students lus tagore library offered remote access to ebooks and ejournals the students could access the academic contents transcending the physical boundaries of the university from their respective homes lu initiated a couple of mentoring programmes such as student opd our pupils day and tree teaching reaching emboldening and evolving to ensure students communication with their teachers on the issues of professional and even personal nature besides lu announced two student friendly schemes karmayogi which provided students an opportunity to earn with the specific skills heshe has and work in the respective section of the university for two hours a day for a maximum of 50 days in a year second was an entrepreneurial development scheme with provision for seed capitallu has prepared itself to this new normal corona crisis certainly posed a huge challenge but lu used it as an opportunity for a transformational shift to the institution geared up to celebrate its centenary yearthe writer is the vicechancellor of lucknow university