Students’ academic performance has always been the focus of the educational process of the university. The main idea of the proposed study is the unacceptability of lowering the educational process quality while the students are switching from online to offline classes. Actually, with the return of students to the university classrooms after a long quarantine various issues emerged referring to the the educational process that require prompt solutions. The article discusses the process of adaptation of university students after a long quarantine associated with the alternation of distance and classroom learning formats. The material of the study can be extremely relevant for numerous universities, as it allows us to look at the new didactic phenomenon such as distance learning, as well as students’ return to traditional format of education from another point of view. The research conducted by the authors of the article is based on the results of a survey of students of one of the Russian universities.