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We are undoubtedly facing one of the most important challenges in the education sector, regardless of countries, pedagogical systems and models, or levels of training, the expansion of the COVID-19 virus is marking a turning point in educational action around the globe. We believe that, except for those programs strictly designed to be developed in virtual mode, no other system, including the university system, as well as the teaching communities that provided strictly face-to-face training, were sufficiently prepared to ensure the teaching-learning process in these times of crisis. We are aware that the educational objectives will surely not be covered in their entirety, since the different elements of the curriculum, such as contents, resources, methodologies, among others, require not only time for their planning, but above all they requested, at the time, previous teacher training processes in the management of platforms and tools with appropriate technologies, strategies for the administration of study time and homework, etc. In short, multiple lines of training were definitely undervalued, since no one could have noticed that millions of people were confined to compulsory confinement, as the only mechanism of prevention of an evil that still has no decisive cure. Obviously it has not only been the school in its total extension that has been affected, the health and sanitary systems are the most needed and cared for in these times, however, an educational reflection on how this crisis is being faced, can serve in the future as a decalogue to consider on how to proceed in circumstantial situations such as a pandemic. COVIDa-20, is a group of professors of …