Bangladeshi universities are concerned about implementing online teaching and assessment to combat epidemic situations though there is skepticism regarding online education. I would like to share some of my recent learnings during my master’s program in Australia. Understandably, the Australian context is quite dissimilar to our country but still, we can gather some gross insights that might provide us with some basic thoughts for online teaching and assessment strategies. Because of highly developed IT infrastructure, knowledge, and initiatives, and financial strength, no universities in Australia faced any kind of major interruptions in the academic semesters since the pandemic hit the country. I am trying to produce a synopsis of how they managed it with excellent outcomes. How did they operate? 1. Since the universities are independent in academic decision making, the universities planned well ahead sensing the pandemic situations to move to online education. It was relativel