Abstract: During the pandemic of COVID-19, in order to respond to the call of the Ministry of Education that “teaching and learning are not stopped even though courses are stopped”, universities across the country have launched online teaching. Taking the “functional experiment” course in Beijing University of Traditional Chinese Medicine as an example, this course was carried out using online virtual experiment platform. On the basis of experimental teaching during the pandemic, teachers have collected experience and students' feedback. This paper summarizes the strengthens and weakness of this teaching method during the pandemic.

Key words: functional experiment, virtual experiment, online teaching